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Moving borders with history: new ways of thinking about border externalisation
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Moving borders with history: new ways of thinking about border externalisation
An article by border externalisation scholars Sebastian Cobarrubias and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen for a special issue of the human geography journal Geoforum re-examines understandings of the history of the European border externalisation regime.
A summary of the article on the Statewatch website explains:
The authors critique common framings of border externalisation as being overly spatial and focused on contemporary dynamics, obscuring the longer imperial histories underpinning these practices. They advocate for re-historicisation and the de-centring of Eurocentric understandings, by situating current trends within the enduring legacies of colonial encounters.
The full article is available in a special issue of Geoforum focussed on border externalisation.
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