Turner, Joe and Bailey, Daniel (2022) ‘Ecobordering’:casting immigration control as environmental protection. Environmental Politics. pp. 110-131. ISSN 0964-4016
Abstract
Based on an analysis of 22 European far-right parties, we identify an emergent discourse in environmental politics, which we conceptualise as ‘ecobordering’. This discourse seeks to blame immigration for national environmental degradation, which draws on colonial and racialised imaginaries of nature in order to rationalise further border restrictions and ‘protect’ the ‘nativist stewardship’ of national nature. As such, ecobordering seeks to obscure the primary driving causes of the ecological crisis in the entrenched production and consumption practices of Global North economies, whilst simultaneously shifting blame on to migration from the Global South where ecological degradation has been most profound. In an era of increasing climate migration, ecobordering thereby portrays effects as causes and further normalises racist border practices and colonial amnesia within Europe.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2022 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1916197 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09644016.2021.1916197 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188060 |
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