Building the Wall. The New Political Architecture of Migration Control in Southern Europe
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An Oppenheimer Chair Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with Ana Mar铆a L贸pez-Sala.
ABSTRACT
Throughout the last decade the search for more efficient and selective policies to control migratory flows has led to the development of new forms of intervention which make up what we have denominated a new political design and architecture of migration control. The countries of the south-western border of Europe (Spain, Italy and Malta) have carried out actions meant to dissuade migration in territories of origin, transit and destination of migratory flows. In the last few years Spanish policy on controlling migration has transitioned away from a reactive and ambivalent approach to an active one with a growing emphasis on coercive dissuasion, repressive dissuasion, sophisticated border identification mechanisms and increased surveillance of border areas.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ana Mar铆a L贸pez-Sala, Ph.D in Sociology, M.A in Security Studies, and Research Fellow at Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Her research interests deals around comparative immigration policies, irregular immigration, immigration control and borders. She is the author of Immigrants and States: the political response to migration (Anthropos, Barcelona, 2005) and recently has published (with Anguiano, M) Migration and Borders (Icaria and CIDOB, Barcelona, 2010) and (with Mena) Trafficking and Smuggling of Immigrants in Spain (Ministerio de Igualdad, 2011).
She is a member of LINET (Independent Network of Labor Migration and Integration Experts, IOM and EC) and was a Resident Rockefeller Fellow at Bellagio (2010). Currently, she is a member of "Dos Fronteras" research project (in collaboration with Transborder Institute, San Diego University), "Transnational Immigrant Organizations Network" (Princeton University) and researcher in charge of "Is Spain moving toward new solutions to manage migration? Bilateral agreements to contract workers in countries of origin, Partnerships in Mobility and Circular Migration" (Ministry of Science and Innovation).
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