ABSTRACT
The extension of border controls beyond a country’s territory to regulate the flows of migrants before they arrive has become a popular and highly controversial policy practice. Today, remote control policies are more visible, complex and widespread than ever before, raising various ethical, political and legal issues for the governments promoting them.
The book examines the externalization of migration control from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, focusing on ‘remote control’ initiatives in Europe and North America, with contributions from the fields of politics, sociology, law, geography, anthropology, and history. This book uses empirically rich analyses and compelling theoretical insights to trace the evolution of ‘remote control’ initiatives and assesses their impact and policy implications. It also explores competing theoretical models that might explain their emergence and diffusion. Individual chapters tackle some of the most puzzling questions underlying remote control policies, such as the reasons why governments adopt these policies and what might be their impact on migrants and other actors involved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|49 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|28 pages
Mapping remote control
chapter 2|19 pages
Rising tide
part 2|125 pages
Externalizing migration management in Europe
chapter 3|19 pages
Frontex and the shifting approaches to boat migration in the European Union
chapter 4|17 pages
Ethnography up the stream
chapter 5|24 pages
The politics of negotiating EU Readmission Agreements
chapter 6|21 pages
Europe's global approach to migration management
chapter 7|20 pages
At a distance
chapter 8|22 pages
Eurasia and externalities of migration control
part 3|82 pages
Externalizing migration management in North America
chapter 10|10 pages
Judging borders
chapter 11|21 pages
Visas as technologies in the externalization of asylum management
chapter 13|21 pages
Secluding North America's labor migrants
part 4|21 pages
Conclusions