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Political-Humanitarian Borderwork on the Southern European Border

Mainstream Humanitarian Organizations Within and Beyond the Hotspot System in Sicily

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Authors:
  1. Roberto Calarco

    1. Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences, Sorbonne Paris North University, Paris, France

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  • Explores the political dimension of the action of mainstream humanitarian actors on Europe's southern border
  • Aims to dig deeper into our understanding of the forms and limits of the humanitarian action at the border
  • Unpacks the kind of change and politicization to which humanitarian action at the border contributes

Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Italian Border Management Policy Strategies

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 19-43

  4. Humanitarianism, (De)politicization and Migration Control

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 45-74

  5. The Implementation of the Hotspot Approach in Italy

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 75-107

  6. Mainstream Humanitarian Organizations Politicizing the Increasingly Restrictive Border Management System

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 109-142

  7. Mainstream Humanitarian Organizations Depoliticizing the Border Management System

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 143-177

  8. Conclusion

    • Roberto Calarco
    Pages 179-186

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 187-189
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About this book

This book focuses on the role mainstream humanitarian organizations have in the functioning of the border management system on the southern European border (i.e. Italy). In particular, the author analyses the mainstream humanitarian organizations and NGOs (i.e. Red Cross, the UNHCR, Medici per I Diritti Umani – MEDU, Terre des Hommes and Oxfam) and their role within and beyond the implementation of the so-called ‘hotspot approach’ in Sicily. This work suggests that a vision of humanitarian action as just anti-political and complicit with migration control can be questioned. This book suggests that a) mainstream organizations have been able to politicize their positioning and actions vis-à-vis authorities when migration policies have been tightened; b) mainstream organizations’ political borderwork has helped to promote incremental change in the status quo rather than a radical one. Finally, this book suggests that the discourses and practices of mainstream and grassroots actors seems to be characterized by similar contradictions.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences, Sorbonne Paris North University, Paris, France

    Roberto Calarco

About the author

Roberto Calarco is Doctor of Sociology at the Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France, and Doctor of Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan, Italy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Political-Humanitarian Borderwork on the Southern European Border

  • Book Subtitle: Mainstream Humanitarian Organizations Within and Beyond the Hotspot System in Sicily

  • Authors: Roberto Calarco

  • Series Title: Mobility & Politics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40504-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40503-7Published: 21 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40506-8Due: 23 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40504-4Published: 20 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-3867

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International Relations, Migration

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