Séance croisée

Chiara Maritato, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, 
University of Turin

Governing irregularised migrations at the EU and the US borderlands

Border enforcement measures have deeply affected borderlands, transformed into laboratories where remote control of migration is tested. These areas in close geographic proximity to borders are both zones of hyper unauthorized circulations and waiting rooms for migrants stranded before they reach their aspired destinations. The seminar encapsulates the main findings and reflections elaborated during the MUR Young Researcher - MSCA “Seal of Excellence” project ROADSIDE which envisaged ethnographic fieldwork at the EU-Turkey and US-Mexico borderlands. 

Damien Simonneau, PhD, Maître de conférences at Inalco (Paris)

"Pourquoi s'emmurer ?", tackling border militarization from the field of border studies and political science 

Pourquoi s'emmurer ? Essai sur une frénésie planétaire (Stock 2024) is an essay to summarize research from the dynamic field of border studies to the general audience to tackle the global phenomenon of border militarization. More and more States are indeed resorting to border walls to deal with multiple "threats". However, tools from social sciences and political science can help compare different situations of border militarization and understand the political processes at stake. The discussion will also address the question of writing and diffusion out of academic circles.