Immigration Nation - Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco

How does migration control work beyond the spectacle of border violence? Examining the role of aid as a mode of migration control, this book, based on extensive research in Morocco, shows how migration control happens more in everyday sites away from state borders, through non-coercive and elusive means of containment.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bordering the Western Mediterranean; 3. How Morocco became an 'immigration nation'; 4. Fund, divide and rule; 5. Excluding through care; 6. Making migrants work; 7. Return, Inc.; 8. The left hand of the border; 9. Conclusion.

About the author

Lorena Gazzotti is the Alice Tong Sze Research fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and CRASSH, University of Cambridge where her work explores the intersection between security, containment, and precarity in North Africa and the UK. She has published in the Sociological Review, the Journal of North African Studies, the Guardian, and Times Higher Education.

Summary

How does migration control work beyond the spectacle of border violence? Examining the role of aid as a mode of migration control, this book, based on extensive research in Morocco, shows how migration control happens more in everyday sites away from state borders, through non-coercive and elusive means of containment.

Product details

• Authors: Lorena Gazzotti
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009514002
• ISBN: 978-1-00-951400-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 387 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Africa / General, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, African History