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Accepted Paper:
The power of a country to control its borders: Migration from Syria and elsewhere to Germany
John Borneman
(Princeton University)
Paper short abstract:
What power does Germany have to respond to migration from places outside Europe characterized by features of liminality? Are there ways to define and regulate the issue beyond the problem of territorial borders? I will pay special attention to my ethnographic work on Syrian migration.
Paper long abstract:
Since Germany has become the primary destination for migrants to Europe, it has, like other countries in the Global North, increasingly sought ways to control this migration. Most of this migration flows through the Mediterranean, although most of the migrants come increasingly from other peripheries to Europe, especially from Africa and Asia. What power does Germany, as an uncontestable hegemonic country, have to respond to migration from places outside Europe characterized by features of liminality? This is certainly a problem of a territorial border, but are there also other ways to define and regulate the issue? I will pay special attention to my ethnographic work on Syria that began in 2015.