Overview
- Explores the main actors, infrastructures, and processes involved in a paradigmatic borderization process in the very core of the EU, also from an historical perspective
- Adopts a multidisciplinary approach in bringing together scholars form History, Geography, Sociology, Law, and Anthropology
- Offers a paradigmatic example of the very nature of any border around the world, whilst at once providing insight on the controversial consequence of the securitization of migration governance
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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About this book
This contributed volume analyzes in depth how a border area is constantly reshaped as migration policies harden, and what kind of social, political and economic impacts are produced at local and international level. The study is focused on Ventimiglia, an Italian town located 6 km away from the French-Italian border on the gulf of Genoa with a long story of commerce, custom and smuggling activities related to its proximity to the frontier. While several projects have analyzed other symbolic places of the EU migration crisis such as Lampedusa, Calais and Lesvos, there is a severe empirical gap regarding Ventimiglia, a border town at the very geographic core of the Schengen area. This case study may provide emblematic insights into what European migratory movements are currently revealing in terms of the lack of shared responsibility between EU Member States, the EU common asylum system and respect for human rights, with increasing claims for national sovereignty by some Member States.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Reading of Ventimiglia as a Border Town
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Borderland Infrastructures
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Social Actors on the Ground
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Livio Amigoni is a PhD Candidate in the Social Sciences at the University Genoa, Italy.
Silvia Aru is an Assistant Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
Ivan Bonnin is a PhD Candidate in European Studies at Roma Tre University, Italy.
Gabriele Proglio is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy.
Cecilia Vergnano is Marie Slodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Debordering Europe
Book Subtitle: Migration and Control Across the Ventimiglia Region
Editors: Livio Amigoni, Silvia Aru, Ivan Bonnin, Gabriele Proglio, Cecilia Vergnano
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56518-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56517-6Published: 20 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56520-6Published: 20 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56518-3Published: 19 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Public Policy, Political Sociology, Cultural Geography