After Border Externalization

Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania

Hassan Ould Moctar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350376823 (ISBN)

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In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers an original analysis of the European Union’s tendency to extend its border and migration control operations into the Global South. Rather than approaching this “border externalization” in analytical isolation, he details how it relates to history and social relations in the West African state of Mauritania. The political concern with policing “irregular migration” emerged relatively recently in Mauritania as a result of EU policy cooperation. But as Ould Moctar shows, it intervenes within a deeper historic arc of colonial bordering and racialized population management, while also upholding capitalism’s tendency to cast people out of its development. To trace how this plays out in practice, he offers fine-grained ethnographic accounts of the conditions of migrant workers who have come up against the violence of externalisation at various points in their trajectories. By tying these narratives to equally formative experiences of urban informality and rural dispossession, he demonstrates how the EU border regime intervenes within a colonially inherited framework of racialized territorial belonging and capitalism’s wasteful dynamics in the Global South.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Hassan Ould Moctar is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, UK.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 2: The Sum of its Parts?
Part 2
Chapter 3: The Proximity of the Past in Mauritania
Chapter 4: EU Border Externalization in Mauritania
Part 3
Chapter 5: A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 6: ‘You can’t be a Migrant at Home’
Chapter 7: Bordering Postcolonial Capitalism
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-13	9781350376823 / 9781350376823
Zustand	Neuware