MARC21: Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security

Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security

What does preparing for a border crisis mean in concrete terms? And how are local communities incorporated into a security apparatus that seeks to regulate circulation and protect its borders? These are questions I investigate by analysing the IOM-UN Migration Agency’s border community engagement pr...

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Autore principale:	Kopf, Charline
Natura:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:	Anglais
Pubblicazione:	Anthropologie & développement 2023
Soggetti:	frontières sécurité participation communautaire migration simulation borders security community participation
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:anthropodev_2239 https://doi.org/10.4000/anthropodev.2239 urn:doi:10.4000/anthropodev.2239 en https://journals.openedition.org/anthropodev/2239 2023-12-21T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/vho1 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security Anthropologie & développement Presses universitaires de Louvain info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2553-1719 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2276-2019 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropodev Kopf, Charline frontières sécurité participation communautaire migration simulation borders security community participation migration simulation What does preparing for a border crisis mean in concrete terms? And how are local communities incorporated into a security apparatus that seeks to regulate circulation and protect its borders? These are questions I investigate by analysing the IOM-UN Migration Agency’s border community engagement programme in the Senegalese borderlands. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2019, I examine the various components of the programme. The objective of these territorial meshing practices, ranging from awareness-raising theatre plays, primers and cartoons to a crisis simulation exercise, is to improve cooperation between security forces and communities. In so doing, they foster a border control culture as a distinct mode of governance that shifts the responsibility for securing borders to citizens. At the same time, I argue that the project’s emphasis on “local communities” and their knowledge contrasts with the global standardisation of spaces and temporal logics of preparedness and prevention these exercises are based on. The tension between how these scenarios and crises are envisaged and how they eventually unfold opens up a space for criticism and digression. Que signifie concrètement la préparation à une crise frontalière ? Et comment les communautés locales sont-elles impliquées dans un appareil sécuritaire qui vise à réguler les circulations et protéger les frontières ? J’approfondis ces questions en analysant le projet d’engagement des communautés de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations dans les zones frontalières sénégalaises. Me basant sur un travail de terrain mené en 2019, j’examine les différentes composantes du programme. Allant de pièces de théâtre et bandes dessinées à un exercice de simulation de crise, ces pratiques de maillage territorial visent à améliorer la coopération entre les forces sécuritaires et les communautés. En tant que mode de gouvernance, ces pratiques favorisent une culture du contrôle des frontières qui transfère la responsabilité sécuritaire aux citoyens. En même temps, je souligne que l’accent mis sur la participation des « communautés locales » contraste avec la standardisation globale des espaces et des logiques temporelles de prévention et de préparation. L’écart entre la manière dont ces scénarios et crises sont imaginés et celle dont ils se déroulent ouvre un espace pour des critiques et des refus.
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topic	frontières sécurité participation communautaire migration simulation borders security community participation migration simulation
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description	What does preparing for a border crisis mean in concrete terms? And how are local communities incorporated into a security apparatus that seeks to regulate circulation and protect its borders? These are questions I investigate by analysing the IOM-UN Migration Agency’s border community engagement programme in the Senegalese borderlands. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2019, I examine the various components of the programme. The objective of these territorial meshing practices, ranging from awareness-raising theatre plays, primers and cartoons to a crisis simulation exercise, is to improve cooperation between security forces and communities. In so doing, they foster a border control culture as a distinct mode of governance that shifts the responsibility for securing borders to citizens. At the same time, I argue that the project’s emphasis on “local communities” and their knowledge contrasts with the global standardisation of spaces and temporal logics of preparedness and prevention these exercises are based on. The tension between how these scenarios and crises are envisaged and how they eventually unfold opens up a space for criticism and digression.
author	Kopf, Charline
author_facet	Kopf, Charline
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title	Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security
title_short	Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security
title_full	Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security
title_fullStr	Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security
title_full_unstemmed	Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security
title_sort	performing (in)securities in west africa: territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security
publisher	Anthropologie & développement
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Performing (In)securities in West Africa: Territorial meshing and local participation in cross-border security

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