Roos Pijpers
is a PhD-student in Human Geography, Radboud University Nijmegen. She works on the project "Bordering Migration: Socio-spatial Bordering Processes of Labour Migration in an Enlarging European Union". She is also involved in the European-wide research project EXLINEA (Lines of Exclusion as Arenas of Co-operation).
See also Henk van Houtum.Eurozine 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]





