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Citation

Spathopoulou A & Meier I (2020) TURNING THE GAZE UPON POWER: REFUSAL AS RESEARCH IN/TO AND AGAINST THE EU BORDER REGIME. [Online article] 01.04.2020.

Abstract
These stories come out of two research projects exploring migrants struggles within and against a transnational regime that tries to impose borders through our everyday lives. Aila’s research focused on the hotspot regime in Greece and the “violence of categorization” that it produces between ‘refugees’ and ‘economic migrants’, and, also, between the arriving ‘asylum seekers’ from the established migrant communities in borderlands. Isabel?s research explored everyday bordering practices in the UK and Germany from the perspective of people stuck in the asylum system. Her activism and conversations with people stuck in the asylum process contemplated the construction of contemporary political spaces and the emotional dimensions of bordering. As researchers and activists, we have witnessed an engagement in a politics of refusal to negotiate racial and colonial dominance articulated in research and solidarity encounters, as well as with the state, humanitarian agencies and transnational corporations in the context of the so-called “refugee crisis” and hotspot management at EU borders.

Keywords
Refusal; politics of asylum; activism; hotspots; cultural mediators