ISBN
978-1529212761Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529212778Imprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529212778Imprint
Bristol University Press
Border Harms and Everyday Violence
The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee ‘crisis’, but they only occasionally focus on the dire living conditions of asylum seekers already present on the island. Through direct experience as an activist in Lesvos refugee camps and detention centres, Iliadou gives voice to those with lived experiences of state violence.
The author considers the escalation of EU border regime and deterrence policies seen in the past decade alongside their present impacts. Asking why the social harm and suffering border crossers experience is normalized and rendered invisible, the book highlights the collective, global responsibility for safeguarding refugees’ human rights.
“Evgenia Iliadou’s deeply engaged book takes us on a journey to the fringe of Europe through a rich ethnography, to face profound theoretical questions. It is a welcome contribution to the field of border studies.” Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University
Evgenia Iliadou is a project worker for a charity supporting migrant women in immigration detention centres in the UK. She holds a PhD in Social Policy and Criminology and has conducted postdoctoral research on refugees’ lived experiences of violence in the Greek immigration detention centres and refugee camps. Her main research interests are: the refugee crisis, asylum, bureaucratic and border violence, and vulnerability. Before joining academia, Evgenia worked for more than a decade as an NGO practitioner in detention centres and refugee camps in Greece and Lesvos island by providing social support to border crossers survivors of torture, human trafficking and sexual abuse.
Introduction
1 The Politics of Deterrence and Closed Borders
2 Intergenerational Harms: Border Memories and Genealogies of Harm
3 Quarantine Continuum: Medicalization of Borders and the Securitization of Migration and Health
4 Mundane Surrealism: Bureaucratic Deterrence, Violence and Suffering
5 Necroharms: Obscene and Grotesque Violence
6 Thanatoharms: Governing Migration Through Violence and Death
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