Grigoris Panoutsopoulos, MSc, Historian of Science and Technology:
“The Military-Humanitarian Border Complex”
15.5.2018
NKUA /


The main aim of the workshop was to study the complementary relations between the two foundations of the European migration policy, namely the military and the humanitarian. This complementarity is based on representations of the immigrants as elusive “threats” and as helpless “victims” at the same time. The workshop’s goal was to investigate the way these representations become crystallized inside the technoscientific apparatus of the borders, producing particular policies for the management of immigrants.

Both of these views however, being two sides of the same coin, present a migratory identity that has lost its human constitution and which must passively accept the future that is offered by the various migration policies. Following this line of argument Mr. Panoutsopoulos posed the question: “How do we, starting from the “humanitarian crisis” of the Labentouza shipwreck, end up with EUROSUR and how do we go from the “humanitarian crisis” of Idomeni to the mandatory incarceration of thousands of migrants in detention centres across Greece and Turkey?”.

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http://riskchange.phs.uoa.gr/past-events/workshops.html