Evictability and the Biopolitical Bordering of Europe

Abstract

Migration and border scholars have argued that the Europeanization and securitization of borders and migration have led to forms of population regulation that constitute a questionable divide between EU and non-EU groups, as well as between different non-EU groups. This paper argues that these processes have impacted not only centrifugally, on non-EU populations, but also centripetally, on the “intra-EU” divide regarding minorities such as Europe's Muslims and Roma. I explain how a de-nationalization of the concepts and methods of migration and border studies—beyond methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism—sheds light on the under-researched impact of the EU's external border regime on minoritized EU citizens. I introduce the notion of “evictability” to articulate this de-nationalization and discuss the case study of Europe's Romani minority to show how contemporary forms of securitization further divide Europe bio-politically along intra-European lines.