Immigration nation : aid, control, and border politics in Morocco / Lorena Gazzotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gazzotti, Lorena, 1991- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morocco--Emigration and immigration.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by European countries and the US, with donors, International Organisations and NGOs becoming prominent actors. In this book, Lorena Gazzotti shows that migration control is not only exercised through fences and deportation. Building on extensive research in Morocco, Gazzotti shows that aid marks the rise of a substantially different mode of migration containment, one where power works beyond fast violence, and its disciplinary potential is augmented precisely by its elusiveness. Where existing studies on border externalisation have essentialised donors, International Organisations and NGOs, with countries of 'origin' and 'transit' as compliant subcontractors, and border control as a neat form of intervention, this nuanced study unsettles such assumptions, to show that bordering happens in everyday, mundane fashions, far away from the spectacle of border violence.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009021869

1009021869

9781009022064

1009022067

9781009024129

1009024124