![]() The proliferation of more restrictive border controls governing global mobility provides important sites of crystallization through which differentiated and stratified rights to movement are produced, negotiated, and reimagined. ![]() Drawing on necropolitical theory and dovetailing with recent calls within geography to forward postcolonial approaches, we call on critical geographers and migration scholars to incorporate the legacies of imperialism in their analysis of the ongoing ‘refugee crisis’. An excavation of the ideological and material linkages that tie colonial histories with contemporary border governance is key to understanding Europe’s shifting constellation of camps, and the racial politics that underpins them. Reflecting on research in the Calais migrant encampment, nicknamed the ‘jungle’, we suggest that the invocation of biopolitics, bare life, and citizenship - at the expense of postcolonial thinking - may inadvertently diminish the role that racism plays in constructing the camp. ![]() By discussing the postcolonial nature of informal refugee camps in Europe, we highlight how race, othering, and empire continue to underpin the logics of contemporary border politics. European refugee camps are postcolonial entities. ![]()
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