TY  - BOOK
AU  - Promitzer,Christian
AU  - Promitzer,Christian
AU  - Trubeta,Sevasti
AU  - Weindling,Paul
TI  - Medicalising borders: Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800
T2  - Rethinking borders
SN  - 9781526154675
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Prevention
KW  - History
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Émigration et immigration
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Maladies infectieuses
KW  - Prévention
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - thema
KW  - Biology, life sciences
KW  - fast
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - Human biology
KW  - Interest qualifiers
KW  - Mathematics and Science
KW  - Medicine and Nursing
KW  - Medicine: general issues
KW  - Migration, immigration and emigration
KW  - Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
KW  - Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
KW  - Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
KW  - Social and cultural anthropology
KW  - Social and ethical issues
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - Sociology and anthropology
KW  - biomedical selection
KW  - camp
KW  - containment
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - health security
KW  - medicalised borders
KW  - migration
KW  - quarantine
KW  - racialisation
KW  - refugees
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - The subject of this volume is situated at the point of intersection of the studies of medicalisation and border studies. The authors discuss borders as sites where human mobility has been and is being controlled by biomedical means, both historically and in the present. Three types of border control technologies for preventing the spread of disease are considered: quarantine, containment and the biomedical selection of migrants and refugees. These different types of border control technologies are not exclusive of one another, nor do they necessarily lead to total restrictions on movement. Instead of a simplifying logic of exclusion-inclusion, this volume turns the focus towards the multilayered entanglement of medical regimes in attempts at managing the porosity of the borders. State and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic provide evidence for the topicality of such attempts. Using interdisciplinary approaches, the chapters scrutinise ways in which concerns and policies of disease prevention shift or multiply borders, as well as connecting or disconnecting places. The authors address several questions: to what degree has containment for medical reasons operated as a bordering process in different historical periods including the classical quarantine in the Mediterranean and south-eastern Europe, in the Nazi-era, and in postcolonial UK? Moreover, do understandings of disease and the policies for selecting migrants and refugees draw on both border regimes and humanitarianism, and what factors put limits on the technologies of selection?
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49620
ER  -