Controlling Frontiers

Free Movement Into and Within Europe

By: Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 April 2005 | Edition Number 1

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296 Pages

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23.39 x 15.6 x 1.75

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Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security. The contributors all take as the point of departure the significance of European governmentality within the Foucauldian meaning as opposed to the European governance perspective which is already well represented in the literature. They discuss the relation between control of borders, introduction of biometrics and freedom. The book makes available in English an analysis of an important and politically highly charged field from a major French critical perspective. It draws on different disciplines including law, politics, international relations and philosophy.

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'This volume is as extraordinary in quality as its subject is in importance. The editors and contributors successfully penetrate the fog of sensationalism, expediency and superficial official and media discourses on societal security and the presence of foreigners in Europe...This is an indispensable work for all concerned with the glib and often pernicious securitization of migration and with the palpable tensions between security discourses and civil liberties and human rights in Europe.' Martin O. Heisler, University of Maryland, USA '...an important contribution to the growing literature exploring how the project of European unification is re-shaping the landscape of movement control as it re-shapes Europe itself. Valuable reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.' John Torpey, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA 'This book is multi-disciplinary, as it contains contributions from law, politics and international relations scholars...[it is] a very stimulating book which will attract the interest of a large audience. It contributes to a wide range of intellectual debates, notably on free movement, migration, deterritorialization, the control of frontiers, globalization, inequalities exclusion and domination.' Journal of Common Market Studies

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