The construction of the European borders as the origin of the criminalization of migration: rhetoric of securitization and humanitarianism
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880005913Keywords:
border, human rights, security, violence, discourseAbstract
This article provides a brief historical overview of the construction of Europe's external borders since the Schengen Agreement (1985). The progressive disappearance of the internal borders generates a stretching of the European borders, which are constructed as dynamic spaces justifying their continuous reterritorialization wherever they are based as an artefact to guarantee security, and consequently understanding migration towards and within Europe as a threat. The management of borders by the European Union is not linked to a discourse of hatred, although there is a rise in extreme right-wing political forces in Europe, but it must be based at the discursive level on a rhetoric of security, but also of humanitarianism. However, borders, as Balibar (2003) states, are the absolutely undemocratic -or discriminatory- condition of democratic societies.
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