Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality

被引:173
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作者
Andersson, Ruben [1 ]
机构
[1] London Sch Econ, Civil Soc & Human Secur Res Unit, Dept Int Dev, London WC2A 2AE, England
关键词
migration; illegality; time; borders; temporality; ANTHROPOLOGY; POWER;
D O I
10.1111/aman.12148
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
The Western world's borders increasingly seem like a battleground where a new kind of threat is repelledthe so-called illegal migrant. At Europe's southern frontiers, sea patrols, advanced surveillance machinery, and fencing keep migrants out, much like at the U.S., Israeli, and Australian borders. Such investments have created a dense web of controls that displaces the border both inward and outward into the borderlands beyond it. Building upon recent border studies and ethnographies of illegality, I explore in this article Europe's migration controls by focusing on their temporal rather than their spatial aspects. I show that, in the borderlands, irregular migrants are not only subjected to extended periods of waiting, as migrants often are, but they also face an active usurpation of time by state authorities through serial expulsions and retentions. The ways in which migrants' time is appropriated reveal a complex economics of illegality, complementing existing biopolitical perspectives on Europe's borders. [migration, illegality, time, borders, temporality] RESUMEN Las fronteras del mundo Occidental parecen crecientemente como un campo de batalla donde una nueva clase de amenaza es repelidael asi llamado migrante ilegal. En las fronteras del sur de Europa, patrullas maritimas, sistemas de vigilancia avanzadas y vallas impiden la entrada de migrantes de una manera similar a los controles fronterizos de Estados Unidos, Israel y Australia. Tales inversiones han creado una densa red de controles que desplaza la frontera tanto hacia el interior como hacia al exterior y mas alla de las zonas fronterizas. Basandome en estudios de fronteras y etnografeas de ilegalidad recientes, exploro en este articulo los controles migratorios de europa, concentrandome en sus aspectos temporales mas que en los espaciales. Muestro que, en las zonas fronterizas, los migrantes irregulares no solo son sujetos a periodos extendidos de espera, como suele ser el caso para muchos migrantes, sino que tambien enfrentan una activa usurpacion de tiempo por parte de las autoridades estatales a traves de expulsiones y retenciones en serie. Las diversas formas en que se apropia el tiempo de los migrantes revelan una compleja economia de ilegalidad, la cual complementa perspectivas biopoliticas sobre las fronteras de Europa. [migracion, ilegalidad, tiempo, fronteras, temporalidad]
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