International audienceBased on two separate studies in sociology and geography, this article emphasizes the effects of “armour-plating” borders in the European Union through a focus on the confinement measures used on migrants at the Greece-Turkey border. Analysing both the construction and contention of detention centres on Lesbos Island, this paper shows that migration control is situated in a myriad of formal as well as informal sites, therefore going beyond the walls of official centres and sanctioning the immobilization or locking up of migrants. Consequently, this article places official detention centres and spaces created by civil society in a wider continuum. While the latter provide an alternative form of detention, in extending a...
International audienceThe decision taken by Greece to build a wall on its eastern border was on the ...
From 2015-2019, over 1.03 million people crossed borders into Greece with the intention of transitin...
peer reviewedIn the last decade immigration became a major issue in public debates across the Europe...
International audienceBased on two separate studies in sociology and geography, this article emphasi...
To many, a border is a geographical fact; an immoveable, unchanging entity. But what happens when a ...
International audienceMigration control at Greece's eastern border is mainly based on the detention ...
This article deals with the ways in which migrants are controlled, contained and selected after land...
This article makes a theoretical argument stemming from our study of the European Commission's hotsp...
This article deals with the modes of (contested) control that are at play at the Mediterranean front...
This article examines the migratory system of the Cypriot Republic which specificity is to be at the...
International audienceThis article examines the migratory system of the Cypriot Republic which speci...
Since the beginning of the 21st century a new migratory control at the greek-turkish border has star...
This paper presents the research objectives and conceptual framework of a PhD thesis being conducted...
Abstract "This article deals with the ways in which migrants are controlled, contained and selected ...
Today, as millions are forced to migrate due to war, famine and political unrest, it is important to...
International audienceThe decision taken by Greece to build a wall on its eastern border was on the ...
From 2015-2019, over 1.03 million people crossed borders into Greece with the intention of transitin...
peer reviewedIn the last decade immigration became a major issue in public debates across the Europe...
International audienceBased on two separate studies in sociology and geography, this article emphasi...
To many, a border is a geographical fact; an immoveable, unchanging entity. But what happens when a ...
International audienceMigration control at Greece's eastern border is mainly based on the detention ...
This article deals with the ways in which migrants are controlled, contained and selected after land...
This article makes a theoretical argument stemming from our study of the European Commission's hotsp...
This article deals with the modes of (contested) control that are at play at the Mediterranean front...
This article examines the migratory system of the Cypriot Republic which specificity is to be at the...
International audienceThis article examines the migratory system of the Cypriot Republic which speci...
Since the beginning of the 21st century a new migratory control at the greek-turkish border has star...
This paper presents the research objectives and conceptual framework of a PhD thesis being conducted...
Abstract "This article deals with the ways in which migrants are controlled, contained and selected ...
Today, as millions are forced to migrate due to war, famine and political unrest, it is important to...
International audienceThe decision taken by Greece to build a wall on its eastern border was on the ...
From 2015-2019, over 1.03 million people crossed borders into Greece with the intention of transitin...
peer reviewedIn the last decade immigration became a major issue in public debates across the Europe...