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SUMMARY:Border Violence: The Case of Melilla
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CONTACT:Herr Tobias Schäfer (Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21))
DESCRIPTION:Herr Tobias Schäfer (Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21))
Border Violence: The Case of Melilla
4th Global Migration Lecture
Borders are spaces intrinsically invested with a high concentration of state violence or its threat. This constitutive sovereign violence, however, remains mostly hidden. This talk aims at unpacking the citizenship contract that occludes the open deployment of violence, and exposing the ways in which the EU southern borders are, instead, spaces where overlapping forms of violence unfold. Focusing on the case of the so called “fence” around the Spanish exclave of Melilla, on African soil, the presentation discusses three forms of harm. One is the classical definition of violence as “physical harm” [...]. In second place, the notion of “slow violence” developed by Rob Nixon is explored in relation to migrant routes and border related suffering. The third form of violence is epistemic, or symbolic, and re-enacts, both in discourse and in practice, racializing, neo-colonial constructions of African men.

The talk is based on interviews and observations in Melilla and Nador in 2017.
Tuesday, 6. July 2021
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