Beyond Geographic Borders

Few would argue that suffering and death in hostile border regions, underequipped detention facilities, or unsafe working and living conditions are anything other than tragic consequences of failing immigration systems around the world. But, as Julien Jeandesboz argues in The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe, exploitation, abuse, and even death of undocumented immigrants can be convincingly described as inherent features of systematic domination rather than a failure of order in Europe’s immigration system1. The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe is edited by University of Amsterdam professors Yolande Jansen, Robin Celikates, and Joost de Bloois, and draws together contributions by academics from a variety of social science disciplines to examine the implications of the Eurozone immigration regime. The authors examine the European approach to immigration in recent decades as one that has proliferated and strengthened, rather than dissolved, national borders.