Title Border harms and everyday violence : a prison island in Europe / Evgenia Iliadou

Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in social harm series Studies in social harm Contents Front Cover -- Half-title -- Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Aims of this book -- Painful injustices: understanding violence, social harm and social suffering -- A heartfelt ethnography of borders -- The metaphor of 'prison island' -- Positionality, power, ethics -- The organization of the book -- 1 The Politics of Deterrence and Closed Borders -- The externalization of EU borders -- The harms of externalization Violence en route -- Financial debt -- Labour debt -- Sexual debt -- Other coerced choices -- The internalization of EU borders -- The hotspot approach -- The closure of the Balkan route -- The EU-Turkey statement -- The geographical restriction regime -- Conclusion -- 2 Intergenerational Harms: Border Memories and Genealogies of Harm -- Regimes of border violence and control -- Genealogies of immigration detention centres -- Special sites of residency for foreigners -- First reception centres or screening centres -- Conclusion 3 Quarantine Continuum: Medicalization of Borders and the Securitization of Migration and Health -- The enemy within -- The enemy at the borders -- Conclusion -- 4 Mundane Surrealism: Bureaucratic Deterrence, Violence and Suffering -- First stage: screening and identification procedures -- Second stage: asylum procedures -- Restricted access to asylum procedures -- Restricted access to information -- Restricted access to legal aid -- The fast-track and inadmissibility procedure -- Administrative vulnerability -- Third stage: Emergency Relocation Scheme -- Fourth stage: Family Reunification Scheme Fifth stage: Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration -- Juma -- Sixth stage: coerced deportations -- Seventh stage: irregular travel -- Conclusion -- 5 Necroharms: Obscene and Grotesque Violence -- The politics of abandonment -- Necroharms -- The Moria camp as a graveyard -- Moria as a site of violence -- Conclusion -- 6 Thanatoharms: Governing Migration through Violence and Death -- Frozen death -- Deterring-killing: the thanatopolitical border regime -- Thanatoharms -- Violence after death -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index Summary The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee 'crisis'. Drawing on her experiences as an activist in Lesvos refugee camps, Iliadou considers the impacts of EU deterrence policies and highlights the global responsibility for safeguarding refugees' human rights Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 31, 2023) Subject Refugees -- Civil rights -- European Union countries Refugees -- Government policy -- European Union countries SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology Emigration and immigration Refugees -- Civil rights Refugees -- Government policy SUBJECT Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) -- Emigration and immigration Subject European Union countries Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality) Form Electronic book ISBN 9781529212785 1529212782 9781529212778 1529212774

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