Abstract
EXBO investigates accumulation processes enabled by border practices that seek to govern migrants through immobilisation as well as forced mobility. It aims to understand the extent to which border management has increasingly become a new terrain for extractive processes and how the governance of migration and asylum is transformed as a result. Drawing on a multi-sited qualitative analysis of three case studies, EXBO will contribute to the development of a ground-breaking path of research on the extractive and predatory dimensions of border politics. This will be achieved by conceptualising the border as a tool of extraction through which migrants are made profitable even before, or regardless of, their exploitation in the labour market. By attending to the extractive character of bordering processes, EXBO will therefore go beyond the current state of the art in which insufficient attention has been placed on the ways through which borders promote and sustain accumulation dynamics.
Project duration
From 20/12/2022 to 19/12/2025
Unibo Team Leader
Lorenzo Vianelli
Responsabile scientifico per il Dipartimento
Lorenzo Vianelli
Coordinator
P.I. Lorenzo Vianelli
Partnership
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy)
Contribution/Budget
EUR 204977,76
2nd level ERC sectors **:
SH7_1 Human, economic and social geography; SH7_2 Migration