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Author Feldman, Gregory, 1969- author.

Title The gray zone : sovereignty, human smuggling, and undercover police investigation in Europe / Gregory Feldman
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Anthropology of policy
Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.)
Contents Introduction : sovereignties and their gray zones -- The ambiguity of truth : the ephemeral limits of security apparatuses -- Identity and the investigative team : violence, sovereignty, and personhood -- The thinness of secrecy -- Sovereign actions on a global stage -- Conclusion : alternatives within : the appearance of the second sovereign form despite the first
Summary Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "taking action" against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "gray zone", a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold. Feldman asks how this seven-member team makes ethical judgments when they secretly investigate smugglers, traffickers, migrants, lawyers, shopkeepers, and many others. He asks readers to consider that gray zones create opportunities both to degrade subjects of investigations and to take unnecessary risks for them. Moving in either direction largely depends upon bureaucratic conditions and team members' willingness to see situations from a variety of perspectives. Feldman explores their personal experiences and daily work in order to crack open wider issues about sovereignty, action, ethics, and, ultimately, being human. Situated at the intersection of the EU migration apparatus and the global, clandestine networks it identifies as security threats, this book allows Feldman to outline an ethnographically-based theory of sovereign action
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Europäische Union gnd
Subject Human smuggling -- European Union countries -- Prevention
Human trafficking -- European Union countries -- Prevention
Undercover operations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- European Union countries
Police ethics -- European Union countries
Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Police ethics
Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Undercover operations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Politische Anthropologie
Ethnomethodologie
Feldforschung
Sicherheitspolitik
Grenzschutz
Spezialeinheit
Menschenhandel
Illegaler Einwanderer
Bekämpfung
Moralisches Handeln
European Union countries
Mittelmeerraum
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503607668
1503607666