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Disjointed knowledges, obfuscated visibility. Border controls at the French-Italian Alpine border
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Abstract This article deals with border controls at the French-Italian Alpine frontier which have been implemented to govern and contain the migrants in transit. It analyses border controls by focusing on the circulation of knowledge and the economy of visibility which are enacted at that frontier. The article illustrates how the French-Italian Alpine area has become a border-zone for migrants, showing that modes of knowledge and forms of visibility are constitutive of bordering processes. It moves on with a section on the production and circulation of knowledge at the border, introducing the notion of “disjointed knowledges” to account for the asymmetries and fragmentariness at play in border control activities. It argues that we need to start from the partial non-circulation of data and local frictions in order to understand bordering practices. Then, it engages with the obfuscated visibility produced on migrant crossing, drawing attention to how migrants’ presence at the border is alternatively visible and concealed by the authorities.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tazzioli, M.
- Affiliations
- Goldsmiths University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Tazzioli, Martina
- ORCID
- Tazzioli, Martina
- Venue
- Political Geography
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 79
- Pages
- 102155
- ISSN
- 0962-6298 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3004116985
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 5.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- Locations
- Political Geography (publishedVersion)
- Goldsmiths (University of London) (acceptedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Border Security and International Relations
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Gender and Women's Rights
- Keywords
- border control, migrant transit, circulation of knowledge, bordering practices, migration governance, border zone, data asymmetry
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