The Geopolitics of Fear : From Security to Solidarity at Europe's Racial Borders

The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard.This book delves into the most vulnerable, yet understudied, area of the EU's anti-immigrant security regime: the port cities in border zones on major refugee routes.Turam shifts the predominant focus from the global scale of fear to the urban scale of native-migrant solidarity in Greece and Sicily-Europe's two major entrance points in the East and Central Mediterranean.Building upon a rapidly growing scholarship on emotional geographies and affective geopolitics, Turam brings emotions to the center and emphasizes their role in forming, transforming, contesting, interrupting, and even evading the securitization of migration.Within the context of rising racism, nativism, and Islamophobia, readers will discover surprising and inspiring acts of day-to-day resistance to securitization empowered by a sense of safety and loca