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Hola Huub,<br>
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Thanks for the notes on how hotspotting is shutting down social
support by civil society from the roots in a number of regions and<br>
also aggressively making flight facilitation-an making them equal
criminal acts.<br>
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And yes, please do, give your sense of creating re-visibility during
these E.U. acts of erasing.<br>
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Very best,<br>
Ricardo<br>
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P.S. As a side note in relation to Ana's figuration of camps in
recent history-how long do people stay in camps:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <em>“...Refugee camps are the
cities of tomorrow ... The average stay today in a camp is 17
years. That’s a generation. In the Middle East, we were
building camps (as) storage facilities for people. But the
refugees were building a city…”</em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <em>— </em><em>Kilian Kleinschmidt</em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Ricardo,</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">“I
was wondering how your work traces out the
question of how virtual fences function in creating
targeted visibility (as
expanded forms</span><span
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<span
style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">surveillance)
of immigration, how does migration
hotspot* management function shutdown invisibility
and escape routes?” </span></span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span
lang="EN-US">Thanks for bringing in that
question, it goes right at the center of some things I
have recently been
working on. As I mentioned in my first post, border
surveillance policies in
Europe in general and this new strategy of hotspotting in
particular mistakenly
assume you can define a region as a border just by taking
in a North-West
perspective. Defining the Aegean as a border is a denial
of history and a
denial of transactions and exchanges that have been going
on culturally,
socially, economically and religiously between different
regions for centuries.
So by defining a region as a hotspot the
first thing that happens is that all kinds of existing
relationships between a
state and civil society on the one hand and between
different social
organizations on the other are put under pressure. Some of
the consequences we
see already. Following the questionable (to say the least)
Greek example,
several European member states are studying on
jurisdiction to arrest people
who support migrants (“irregular migrants” as they are
officially referred to)
on the accusation of smuggling. Another example that has
been going on for a
couple of years now on islands like Chios and Lesbos is
that the state closes
down refugee camps that have been created with the help of
local people and
grassroots organizations. So what first was welcomed as an
initiative from
civil society to support the state in housing migrants and
providing them with food
and health care because the state lacked all kinds of
resources (the result of
a combination of years of austerity with a lack of
migration policy) is now
condemned as a criminal act, as illegally supporting
illegal people. To come
down to my point, this strategy of hotspotting by defining
an area as a high
voltage border and putting it under permanent control
demolishes the visual
manifestations of solidarity and voluntary support and
turns the long existing
relationships between state and society invisible. In
doing so it takes away
one of the most important democratic tools of a group of
people namely the
possibility of imaging itself as a community in
relationship with others by visualizing
its deeds and performing public acts. So I think the
paradigmatic interplay
between the visible and the invisible is not just
performed on an instrumental level
by covering things up and exposing others but on a
political level as it
interferes with a society’s possibilities to be visible to
itself as a society.
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lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span
lang="EN-US">I can share some examples of
activist’s attempts to re-visualize the society’s concern
for migrants on the
Aegean islands in a next post,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span
lang="EN-US">Best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span
lang="EN-US">Huub</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">*According
to the E.U. Commission: "A
Hotspot is characterized by specific and disproportionate
migratory
pressure, </span><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial"><br>
<span
style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">consisting
of mixed migratory flows, which are
largely linked to the smuggling of migrants, and where
the Member</span><br>
<span
style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">State
concerned might request support of better
cope with the migratory pressure."</span></span></p>
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Hola Huub y Tod@s,<br>
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I was wondering how your work traces out the question of
how virtual fences function in creating targeted
visibility (as expanded forms<br>
surveillance) of immigration, how does migration hotspot*
management function shutdown invisibility and <br>
escape routes? <br>
<br>
*According to the E.U. Commission: "A Hotspot is
characterized by specific and disproportionate migratory
pressure, <br>
consisting of mixed migratory flows, which are largely
linked to the smuggling of migrants, and where the Member<br>
State concerned might request support of better cope with
the migratory pressure."<br>
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Very best,<br>
Ricardo<br>
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