Alpine Border Conflicts

Few places are more revealing than the Alps to grasp the uneven EU core-periphery dynamics intrinsic to the EU border regime. In 2015, the reintroduction of controls at northern Italian borders, as a response to asylum seekers' mobility, gave rise to a series of conflicts, contradictions and solidarities which this book explores. The ethnographic analysis of the everyday life of the French/Italian and Austrian/Italian borders makes visible the impacts of governance strategies which promote social polarization to contain potentially subversive moments of disruptions and transgressions. By contextualizing the governance of borders and migration in a broader framework, which includes the governance of EU states' debt, Alpine Border Conflicts focuses on the effects of border regimes not only on migrants but also on EU societies.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Maurice Stierl
Foreword by Silvia Aru
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Crisis
Chapter 2: A Step Back: Breaches
Chapter 3: Redressive Actions
Chapter 4: The Racialized Divide Among Border-crossing Facilitators
Chapter 5: The Breach within the Social Basis of the Left
Conclusion
About the Author