RT Article
T1 Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 65
IS 5
SP 1123
OP 1140
A1 Aliverti, Ana
A1 Dufraix Tapia, Roberto
A1 Ramos Rodríguez, Romina
A1 Tapia Ladino, Marcela
A1 García España, Elisa
A2 Dufraix Tapia, Roberto
A2 Ramos Rodríguez, Romina
A2 Tapia Ladino, Marcela
A2 García España, Elisa
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1938872053
AB In this article, we empirically document the changing dynamics of border controls in the context of the COVID pandemic, and its consequences for border control workers, particularly police, border agents and the military. We focus on three areas: the Anglo-French (Dover-Calais) maritime border, the Euro-African border (Ceuta-Tetuán) and the South American border of Tarapacá-Oruro between Chile and Bolivia. We explore how sovereign strategies of containment and closure, and the diplomatic tensions that arise from them, sometimes operate uneasily with on-the-ground attempts to save lives and provide care in the most precarious situations. These competing institutional demands and moral and professional tensions and dilemmas, we argue, shape an emerging form of management of social precarity that we conceptualize as ‘humanitarianism from below’.
K1 Borders
K1 Humanitarianism
K1 Policing
K1 Carabineros
K1 Policia Nacional
K1 Immigration Enforcement
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaf005