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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape
Contributor:
Pallister-Wilkins, Polly
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2018
Published in:
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36 (2018) 1, Seite 114-138
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/0263775817740588
ISSN:
0263-7758;
1472-3433
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p> This article makes the case for the consideration of a humanitarian borderscape. The article analyses the recent humanitarian responses to irregular migration in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Greece and argues that processes of im/mobility produce specific times, spaces and types of care. The argument transcends recent discussions on the shrinking and/or expanding of humanitarian spaces, suggesting instead that a focus on the specific setting of the border and the dynamics of mobility are more useful to understanding humanitarian responses to mobility and immobility. In addition, the article contributes to the emerging literature on borderscapes by offering an interpretive analysis of the creation of a particular humanitarian borderscape made up of specific features and activities, which are undertaken by a multiplicity of actors in multiple places. Building on a consideration of this multiplicity, the article focuses specifically on the work of Médecins Sans Frontières. </jats:p>