The diagnosis of a migration crisis has prompted multiple processes of rebordering in Europe and beyond. These include the build-up of physical barriers like walls and fences, the tightening of asylum regimes, the expansion of biometric databases and the enrolment of authoritarian regimes in controlling Europe’s borders. These developments have prompted a revival of the image of the ‘fortress’ in critical accounts of the European border regime. Building on existing criticisms of the metaphor Fortress Europe, this article proposes an alternative political imaginary of the European border regime. Starting from a version of the autonomy of migration approach that is based on the notion of appropriation, it proposes to apprehend the European border regime as a parasitic and precarious apparatus of capture. This apparatus of capture tries to recuperate migrants’ practices of appropriation in order to turn the knowledge and creativity of these practices into a driving force for its own development. Important aspects of this dynamic are illustrated through two examples: the refinement of control mechanisms of the European visa regime and the repeated tightening of Germany’s asylum regime since the ‘summer of migration’ in 2015. Taken together, these examples illustrate three aspects of processes of recuperation: first, that legal changes often only formalise previously informal practices of recuperation, secondly, that the framing of migration in terms of crisis functions as a vehicle for processes of recuperation which open up, thirdly, new opportunities for practices of appropriation as they are incoherent. In sum, the reading of the European border regime as an apparatus of capture paves the way for more assertive antiracist politics as it invites us to apprehend increasingly violent forms of border control not as signs of strengths of the European border regime, but as indicators of its increasingly desperate fight for survival.

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通过危机谈话恢复

对移民危机的诊断促使欧洲及其他地区进行了多次重新边界进程。其中包括建立墙壁和围栏等物理障碍、收紧庇护制度、扩大生物识别数据库以及控制欧洲边界的专制政权的加入。这些事态发展促使欧洲边境政权的批判性描述中“堡垒”形象的复兴。基于对“欧洲堡垒”这一比喻的现有批评，本文提出了欧洲边界制度的另一种政治想象。从基于挪用概念的移民自治方法的一个版本开始，它建议将欧洲边界制度理解为一个寄生的和不稳定的捕获机构。这种捕获机制试图恢复移民的挪用实践，以便将这些实践的知识和创造力转化为自身发展的动力。这种动态的重要方面通过两个例子来说明：欧洲签证制度控制机制的完善和自 2015 年“移民之夏”以来德国庇护制度的反复收紧。恢复：首先，法律变化往往只会使以前非正式的恢复实践正式化，其次，从危机角度出发的移民框架作为恢复过程的工具，为恢复过程开辟了新的机会，正如它们一样语无伦次。总共，