Overview

Much work has been done on the causes and characteristics of the Arab Spring, but relatively little research has examined the political and spatial consequences that have developed following the uprisings. This book engages with the ways in which spaces in Southern Europe and Northern Africa have been negotiated and transformed by migrants in the wake of the uprisings, showing that their struggles are a continuation of their political movement. Drawing on an innovative countermapping approach, based on radical cartography, Martina Tazzioli illustrates the spatial upheavals caused by migration in the Mediterranean and the transformations created by migration controls applied by European nations. With critical insight on the application of Foucault's concept of governmentality to migration studies, exploration of a reconfigured theory of autonomy of migration and discussion of the politics of invisibility that underpins migration, this book sheds new light on the enduring struggles that follow the Arab Spring.

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Investigating practices of migration in the Mediterranean in the wake of the Arab uprisings, this book destabilizes governmental cartography of migration and unsettles our mental and geographical maps. It speaks of migration, borders, and the Mediterranean, but it also compels us to rethink the politics of autonomy.--Sandro Mezzadra, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna and co-author of co-author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

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Martina Tazzioli is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths University of London, UK. She is co-editor of Spaces in Migration (Pavement, 2012) and Foucault and the History of our Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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