Outsourcing Border Control
Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2017
XV, 94 pages
978-1-137-46984-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Using an original case study, private contractors that implement EU visa policy on governments' behalf, the author focuses on visa application centers located in Morocco and run by the two major contractors of European Member States, the transnational corporations VFSGlobal and TLSContact. The analysis builds on ethnographic research that encompasses the making of EU visa policy at the European, national and local levels. It aims at uncovering the reasons that have led to the adoption of outsourcing as a normal and legitimized mode to implement EU visa policy and the effects of that choice.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 94 p.
File size
5,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-46984-7 (9781137469847)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-46984-7
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Other editions
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Federica Infantino
Outsourcing Border Control
Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
Book
03/2017
Palgrave Pivot
€58.84
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Person
Federica Infantino
is FNRS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. She is co-editor of the 2014
Security Dialogue
's special issue "Border Security as Practice" and contributor to several journals in English and French.
Content
1. Bordering Outside the State .- 2. Outsourcing in Practice .- 3. The Politics of Private-Public Cooperation.
