The article shows how the knowledge produced through the documents has effects on both the mainstream discourse on migration and on the legitimisation of violent border management practices. Specifically, the article shows how this language promotes a discourse on migrants that strictly categorises territories and peoples, establishes geographies of control and hierarchies of deserving and undeserving subjects according to Eurocentric ideas on mobility.
Authors:
Agnese Pacciardi and Anna Casaglia
Title:
A close look at the EU–Turkey deal: The language of border externalisation
Link:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/23996544221100149