Abstract

FIGUEIREDO, Patrick. Muros do Mediterrâneo: Notas sobre a construção de barreiras nas fronteiras de Ceuta e Melilla. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos [online]. 2011, n.22, pp.153-175. ISSN 1645-3794.

There are many material cases that shape the frontiers between E.U. and Africa thatdeserve attention. I will consider some theoretical approaches to the fences that are beingbuilt in the territorial boundaries between Ceuta and Melilla’s enclaves, distancing theEuropean continent from the Moroccan territory, and thus, from Africa. This tendency toseparate nation-states with walls can be observed in every continent. Despite commercialliberalization and an increasing flow of political speeches that appeal to the freedom ofcirculation, developed countries are also engaged in this movement of barrier proliferationthat checks and controls the circulation of social agents. To better understand the conceptsunderlying these fences, I seek to insert them in the constellation of security apparatusthat shape our late modernity.

Keywords : boundaries; walls; immigration; Europe; stigma.

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