Immigration detention in the MENA region: Security and human mobility in the business of bordering Europe.

近几十年来，随着跨越国界的移民人数增加，移民拘留已成为打击移民和限制流动的首选机制。最近的移民危机加强了欧洲对安全的关注，拘留是欧盟与邻国签署的大多数移民相关协议的关键战略。虽然相关的文献分析了欧洲的移民拘留，但没有太多关于过境国移民拘留的增加的信息，在这些国家，边境管理的外部化改变了移民与国家之间的流动模式。这项建议的重点是越来越多的移民被拘留对欧洲移民流动的影响。为了做到这一点，该项目采用了一个理论框架，将政治学和边界研究的批判理论与对拘留地理发展的空间分析的见解结合起来。这项建议的重点是在南欧和北方之间的边境地区进行定性实地工作，目的是说明北非和中东移民拘留的扩大以及这种做法对欧洲移民未来的影响。

As the number of migrants crossing national borders has increased over recent decades, immigration detention has become the preferred mechanism to counter immigration and restrict mobility. The latest immigration crisis has reinforced Europe's focus on security, with detention featuring as a key strategy in most migration-related agreements signed by the EU and neighbouring countries. Whilst a relevant body of literature analyses immigration detention in Europe, not much is told of the rise of immigration detention in countries of transit, where the externalisation of border management has changed patterns of mobility as the relation between migrants and the state. This proposal focuses on the effects that increasing migrant detention is having on migration flows to Europe. In order to do so, the project adopts a theoretical framework which integrates the critical theory of political science and border studies with insights into the spatial-analysis of a developing geography of detention. By focusing on both qualitative fieldwork on the border zone between southern Europe and northern Africa, this proposal aims to account for the expansion of immigration detention in North Africa and the Middle East, and the effects that such practices will have on the future of immigration to Europe.