Migrants, borders and the European question : the Calais jungle
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Migrants, borders and the European question : the Calais jungle
（Mobility & politics / series editors Martin Geiger, Parvati Raghuram and William Walters）（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question. The issue of who and what counts as European was articulated through this makeshift camp. The book argues that the Jungle acquired meaning as a localised struggle to define territory, borders, rights and refugees in Europe. Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad is used as a framing device for analysis. Discourses of tropicality are shown to produce the Jungle in terms of a postcolonial space of exception. This representational space fused bodies and environment in racialised ways. Attention is then drawn to assemblages that gave rise to political subjectivity, which partially elided a Eurocentric prism of rights. Here, the book explores how a 'right to the jungle' was generated via relations between refugees, aid workers and material objects-constituting the Jungle as a space of representation. Finally, intimate life in, and beyond, the Jungle is examined as a spatial practice that contests the EU border regime.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The European Question
Chapter 2. Traces of Tropicality
Chapter 3. The Right to the Jungle
Chapter 4. Calais mon Amour
Chapter 5. Spatialising the European Question in the Calais Jungle
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