Szmagalska Follis, Karolina (2011) What is an economic migrant? Europe's new borders and the politics of classification. In: Citizenship, Borders and Human Needs. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadephia, pp. 115-131. ISBN 978-0-8122-4283-6

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Abstract

After the United States-Mexico border, the second longest border between a poor and an affluent region is the eastern external boundary of the European U nion.l This essay discusses the selective permeability of this border, drawing on a larger study of the emergence of a new border regime between Poland and Ukraine following the 2004 expansion of the European Union. In 2005-2006 I conducted twelve months months of field research in Poland and Ukraine, among border guards and immigration officials as well as in migrant communities and civil society organizations. As a participantobserver of cross-border human traffic, I gathered vernacular accounts of crossing, policing, and subverting the border. I relied on historical sources, legal acts, policy handbooks, official statements, and independent reports to situate the accounts I collected within the larger context of "building Europe" east of the former Iron Curtain.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Economic migrant; Europe's new borders; Citizenship, Borders; Human needs;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology
Item ID:	2968
Depositing User:	Karolina Szmagalska Follis
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2012 10:04
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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