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<div><b>Part I: Within the Walls: Transformations of Migration Control and Management</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>1. Introduction: Within the Walls</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>2. “Migrants” vis-à-vis “Refugees”: Towards a “Rationalisation” of Migration Control and Management</div><div><br></div><div>3. Opening and Closing Borders: Capitalism Is Speeding Up</div><div><br></div><div>4. Borders’ Diffusion as a Response to the “Humanist Crisis”: Towards a Military-Humanitarian Nexus</div><div><br></div><div>5.&nbsp;Borders and Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Biopolitical Societies: The Migrant’s Body as Carrier of the Border</div><div><br></div><div>6.&nbsp;Conclusion: Facing a Circulus Vitiosus?</div><div><br></div><b>Part II:&nbsp;</b><b>Humanist or Capitalist Crisis? Notes and Remarks concerning a False Dilemma</b><div><br></div><div>7.&nbsp;Exergum</div><div><br></div><div>8.&nbsp;Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse</div><div><br></div>9.&nbsp;The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities<div><br></div><div>10.&nbsp;Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A Conclusion?</div><div><br></div><div>8. Conclusion</div><div><br></div>

<b>​Thanasis Lagios</b> is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece.<div><br></div><div><b>Vasia Lekka</b> is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Grigoris Panoutsopoulos</b> is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.<br></div><div><br></div>

This book critically discusses two crises that shape our present: migration crisis and 2007–2008 crisis. The first part raises several questions regarding migration, borders, labour, humanitarianism and biopolitics; the second part focuses on the false dilemma between an interpretation of contemporary crisis in the West as capitalist or humanist.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div><b>Thanasis Lagios</b>&nbsp;is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Vasia Lekka</b>&nbsp;is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Grigoris Panoutsopoulos</b>&nbsp;is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

<p>Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisis</p><p>Juxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the body against the border, with and its narrative/discourse in the form of a geneaology of crisis</p><p>Draws on several theoretical traditions to decide whether the current migration crisis is in fact a crisis or something endemic to capitalism</p>

Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisis<div><br></div><div><div>Juxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the body&nbsp;against the border, with and its narrative/discourse in the form of a geneaology of crisis</div></div><div><br></div><div>Draws on several theoretical traditions to decide whether the current migration crisis is in fact a crisis or something endemic to capitalism<br></div>

“This book is bold, refreshing, and timely. It has the great merit of intertwining two usually separated themes—the migration crisis and the financial crisis—in an empirically sensitive and theoretically sophisticated manner. The result is a work so uncompromising in its commitment to the labor of critique that it furnishes us with a new lens for understanding and interrogating the multiple but related crises in our present.” (Marcelo Hoffman, author of Militant Acts: Investigations in Radical Political Struggles and Theories and Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power)<p>“Through a sharp examination of the so-called 2015 refugee crisis and the 2007 financial crisis, this outstanding volume makes a crucial contribution to studies of the government of migration and politics of crisis in today’s Europe. It strikingly illuminates what is at stake in thinking these together and, in doing so, brings out genealogies of capitalism and bordering in Europe.” (Céline Cantat, Research Fellow, Central European University)</p>

<p>“By skillfully combining philosophical and political perspectives, this book’s main merit lies in its radical deconstruction of neoliberal discourse and its rhetoric of the crisis. It is, thus, an essential theoretical tool to see and understand Europe’s dark side that tends to become a landscape of control and de-humanization, whose borders embody the last frontier of exploitation and domination.” (Monia Cappuccini, author of Austerity and Democracy in Athens: Crisis and Community in Exarchia, Palgrave Macmillan)</p>