Maribel Casas-Cortes

TL;DR: New Keywords: Migration and Borders as discussed by the authors is a collaborative writing project aimed at developing a nexus of terms and concepts that fill-out the contemporary problematic of migration, which moves beyond traditional and critical migration studies by building on cultural studies and post-colonial analyses by drawing on a diverse set of longstanding author engagements with migrant movements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an autonomous gaze that supplements these institutional readings of apparatuses of capture with a view that takes as its starting point the ways in which border architectures, institutions, and policies interact with and react to the turbulence of migrant mobilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial logics of EU border externalization practices as they are being applied to and in North and West Africa are analyzed, and the transnationally coordinated border control projects and infrastructures implemented by the Guardia Civil of Spain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the ways in which emerging models of migration management are producing new geographies of the European Union's borders that complicate notions of a tightly bounded and easily delineated "Schengen space" or "Fortress Europe".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors follow the development of the term precarity among several activist networks in Europe (mainly in Spain) through their engagements with crises of the welfare state, new contractual and working arrangements, migrant labor and mobility, and gender.