Contemporary Boat Migration

Data, Geopolitics, and Discourses
Herausgeber: Burroughs, Elaine; Williams, Kira

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781786615985
• ISBN-10: 1786615983
• Artikelnr.: 58299778

Autorenporträt

Elaine Burroughs is currently an Associated Staff member with the Department of Geography, Maynooth University, where she researches migration in the Irish and European contexts. She is the author of the book "Political and Media Discourses of Illegal Immigration in Ireland" (2015). Kira Williams is an instructor, researcher and teaching assistant in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, lecturer at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and works for the International Migration Research Centre. Her research focuses on international migration, global governance, and analytical methodologies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Challenging Migration Studies through Addressing Critical
Gaps in Studying Migration by Boat / i. Introduction to Section One: Data
and Methodology / 2. Methodological Approaches to Researching Boat
Migration: Moving Vessels and Emotional Landscapes (Mountz) / 3. Review of
and Research Proposal for Methodologies Studying Migrant Interdiction at
Sea (Williams) / i. Introduction to Section Two: Geopolitics and Legal
Regimes / 4. Italy and the Militarization of Euro-Mediterranean Border
Control Policies (Campesi) / 5. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Fragmented
Space of the Sea: Actors, Territories and Legal Regimes between Libya and
Italy (Cuttitta) / 6. On Choppy Waters: the Shifting Borders of Protection
in Europe (van Selm) / i. Introduction to Section Three: Discourses / 7.
Deconstructing the Migration "Crisis" and Representations of Migration by
Boat in the UK News Media (Burroughs) / 8. Media Discourses of the rescue
and landing of migration by boat in the Italian News Media (Bruno and
Binotto) / 9. Silencing Migration by Sea: Unveiling Technologies of
Exclusion in Australian Maritime Borders (Dickson) / 10. Conclusion:
Problems, Answers and Ways Forward in Studying Migration by Boat