This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant
crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two
issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and
administration via border technologies as well as on the centrality of the body as a means and
carrier of border within contemporary biopolitical societies. In a second step the authors
proceed to a genealogy of the current discourses regarding the financial and political crisis
through a Foucauldian and Lacanian perspective focusing on the co-articulation of scientific
knowledge and biopolitical power in Western societies.
