Henk van Houtum
is Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Director of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University Nijmegen. Recent publications include: H. van Houtum, O. Kramsch, W. Zierhofer, B/ordering Space, Aldershot 2004; M. van der Velde and H. van Houtum, "The Threshold of Indifference", in: Kramsch O. and B. Hooper, Cross-border governance in the EU, London 2004.
See also Roos PijpersEurozine Articles
Towards a gated community
Offering an alternative to the flawed Fortress Europe metaphor, Henk van Houtum and Roos Pijpers argue that the moral panic on immigration and consequent migration policy in the EU follows a geo-strategic logic which much more than a fortress resembles the management of a gated community. [more]





