Doing Frontiers: On the Performativity of the European Border and Migration Regime

Abstract: Determining European territory is a delicate endeavor. A definite borderline is hard to identify. Instead, European security discourse spans a space with conditional qualities: open for some, impervious for many. Referring to Judith Butler's theory, this contribution's aim is to disclose performative forces that create corresponding subject-categories. Particularly, expert-driven legislation on migration and the militarization of the security discourse is relevant. It is possible to reconstruct a multidimensional matrix of intelligibility. For this, relevant policy documents are analyzed by conducting a qualitative content analysis. This contribution allows to critically question foundational dimensions of European identity constituted by regulatory and exclusive practices at the borders

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die Performativität des Europäischen Grenz- und Migrationsregimes
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 16 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: DNGPS Working Paper ; Bd. 01/2016

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2016
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Opladen
• (who): Verlag Barbara Budrich
• (when): 2016
• Creator: Heinze, Tobias ; Illigens, Sebastian ; Pollok, Michael
• Contributor: Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft e.V. (DNGPS)

Further information

• DOI: 10.3224/dngps.v2i1.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-75893-8
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:45 PM CET