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as legal “output” for the EU, that is, as new labourers, political refugees, or waste that
can be dumped.
Figure 7.4
provides an overview of the various migrant camps in the
EU, be it asylum “waiting rooms” or detention centres.
Figure 7.4
The immigration camp atlas in Europe (source:
http://www.mlgreurop.org/
)
.
As can be seen in
Figure 7.4
, and as argued above, in the context of the European
Neighbourhood Policy, the border control, as well as the erection of border camps, is
increasingly being transferred to the neighbours. The commission has argued time and
againinrecentyearsthatitwantsto“sharetheburden”ofbordercontrolwithrespective
countries. Countries of origin are being made complicit to the protection of the system,
the law of the EU. In doing so, it could be argued, the EU is increasingly selling and
morally contracting out its “problem.” Ina way,therefore, the external border ofthe EU
is becoming a frontier, in the sense of the shifted EU “civilization” in space.
Ending
I started this paper with Reichert's enticing provocation on our topological thinking. It
seems that her plea to be wary about and to scrutinise critically the topologics of bor-
dersisnowastimelyasiteverwas.Anincreasingliberalisation ofbordercontrolinside
