“The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and
Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the
higher education sector and the violence of the European border regime. We
introduce the concept of positivist dissonance to conceptualise these
relationships within the wider ?industrial-military-academic complex?.
Several cases are examined, ranging from the Horizon projects involving
both universities and Frontex to the research grants offered by the
agency and its teaching programmes. We also discuss the case of our
department at the Polytechnic of Turin, which has provided cartographic
services to Frontex. The paper offers a twofold contribution. First,
expanding on available scholarship, it shows how universities function as
key actors in the enforcement of regimes of border control. Second, it
provides conceptual and empirical insights to centre academia as a prime
ground not only of critical thinking but also of direct struggle
against the violence of the EU border regime.”
Available online:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.70090
Cristina
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Cristina Del Biaggio