The contours of the geography of the crisis I am proposing here are written down by names and places: Lesvos, Calais, Ventimiglia, Lampedusa, Paris, Molenbeek (Belgium), Nice, but also Brexit, Syria, Turkey and Libya. I believe there is an important historical matter at work beneath this “imaginary geography”. This geography interpellates us a “geography of war”: war against migrants and asylum seekers and to their desire of mobility and welfare; but also, and usually forgotten, war against “post-migrants” or postcolonial Europeans, that is against European sons of decades of a racist state management of European territories and populations. This specific geography is showing a Europe gripped into what can be called a “manichean securitarian delirium."

Policing the Refugee Crisis: Neoliberalism between Biopolitics and Necropolitics
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