“We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.” Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19

• Published in: International political sociology Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 539 - 558
• Main Authors: Tazzioli, Martina, Stierl, Maurice
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Ambivalence; Bacteria; Biopolitics; Borders; California; Contagion; Containment; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Deterrence; Epidemics; Governmentality; Handicrafts; Health aspects; Humanitarianism; Immigration policy; Imprisonment; Infection; Libya; Malta; Mediterranean Sea; Migrants; Migration; Pandemics; Political asylum; Ports; Refugees; Security; Tactics; United Kingdom; United Kingdom; California; Mediterranean Sea; Libya; Malta

This article investigates how the security-humanitarian rationale that underpins migration governmentality has been restructured by and inflected in light of hygienic-sanitary borders which enforce racialised confinement in the name of both migrants' and citizens' safety from infection by...