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The Disoriented State: Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and Governance pp 101–120Cite as

Querying the Queue: A Review of the Literature on the Management of Borders and Migration in the European Union

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Part of the book series: Environment & Policy ((ENPO,volume 49))

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This chapter presents a review of a recently published body of thematic literature. The aim of this literature is to excavate a more generally expressed discontent with the widely observed contradiction between the supposed greater openness of the EU's internal borders and the strengthening of external border controls. This formulation, however appropriate, to some extent underexposes the geopolitical motives and implications at stake. In particular, two claims stand out here. The first is that the line between the state and the non-state in regulating migration issues is rather thin. Without de facto rejecting the influence of market actors in migrant control and selection, many contributors to the current debate abundantly describe and criticise the market-inspired managerial features of European migration policy. The second claim is that, spatially, these policy practices translate into a conception of the borders of the EU as networked power instruments used to control security risks and the risks posed by flexible capitalism. In reviewing the arguments that sustain these claims, it is found that the management of borders and migration in the EU entails many aspects of governmentality and territoriality that, together, are expressed in the metaphor of the ‘queue’, literally a waiting line in a waiting space.

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Pijpers, R. (2009). Querying the Queue: A Review of the Literature on the Management of Borders and Migration in the European Union. In: Arts, B., Lagendijk, A., Houtum, H. (eds) The Disoriented State: Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and Governance. Environment & Policy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9480-4_5

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