A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe's Migrant Crisis and Africa's Reterritorialisation. Issue 1 (10th August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Landau, Loren B.
• Is Part Of: Antipode. Volume 51:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 186
• Publication Date: 2018-08-10
• Subjects: migration -- externalisation -- reterritorialisation -- temporalities -- Africa; Geography -- Periodicals; 910.5
• DOI: 10.1111/anti.12420
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0066-4812

Abstract

Abstract: Europe has taken unprecedented levels of peacetime defensive actions against the perceived demands by African migrants for "absolute hospitality". In collaboration with politicians across the Mediterranean, European political leaders are authoring a chronotope that removes Africa and Africans from global time. This discursive vision rests on an epistemological reorientation coding all Africans as potential migrants capable of threatening European and African sovereignty and security. This conceptual realignment has seeded a defensive assemblage of coercive controls, sociologies of knowledge, and a campaign to generate sedentary African subjects. Ultimately it is engendering "containment development" aimed at geographically localising Africans' desires and imaginations. In an era of planetary entanglement and exchange, this discursively and materially excludes Africans from what it means to be fully human.