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Extractive Borders: Profiting from Migrants’ Forced Im/Mobility (EXBO)

EXBO addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time, that is the management of widespread human mobility between the Global South and the Global North, most notably Europe. It does so in original and innovative ways by investigating the extractive character of migration management practices.

Drawing on a multi-sited qualitative analysis in different research contexts in Europe, EXBO explores accumulation processes that are enabled by border practices that seek to govern people on the move through immobilisation as well as through forced mobility.