Europeanisation Through Mobility: Visa Liberalisation and Citizenship Regimes in the Western Balkans

Kacarska, Simonida

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2104191

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“…58 Migration control is also a factor which leads towards the EU (or away from it if unsuccessful); hence prepheralization is constructed as a mode of lack of 'Europeanization' trends. 59…”

Section: Transit Migration: the Very Western Balkan 'Problem'mentioning

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Balkans and Baltics: On Migration as a Factor of Regional Peripheralization

Lulle

2018

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

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In this paper I propose a critical comparative reflection on migration as a factor of peripheralization processes in the Western Balkan and Baltic regions. In their respective geographical positions, the Western Balkans and the Baltics stand at different ends of the European map: south-east and north-east. Regarding their historical and political positions, however, these are very diverse: the Western Balkans were part of Yugoslavia (except Albania) while the Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) were annexed to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Currently, two Western Balkan countries -Slovenia and Croatia -are already members of the European Union, as the three Baltic countries are, while the rest of Western Balkans are not. I argue that apart from economic and geographical factors, usually taken into account in describing peripheries and cores, migration processes and discourses powerfully construct some places as dynamically moving towards a 'core' while others remain confined to a 'periphery'. By paying special attention to 'scientific discourses', I aim to broaden our understanding of theories and practices of peripheralization, where migration tends to be under-theorized.

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“…58 Migration control is also a factor which leads towards the EU (or away from it if unsuccessful); hence prepheralization is constructed as a mode of lack of 'Europeanization' trends. 59…”

Section: Transit Migration: the Very Western Balkan 'Problem'mentioning

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Balkans and Baltics: On Migration as a Factor of Regional Peripheralization

Lulle

2018

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

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“…In exchange for these readmission agreements, the EU has liberalised the visa restrictions on regular migrants from SAP and ENP countries. In most cases, however, the readmission and visa agreements have largely failed to uphold the conditionalities originally set by the EU to protect ethnic minorities in the region (Kacarska 2012). In the case of Kosovo, readmission agreements have enabled the governments in Western Europe to rapidly repatriate irregular migrants, as well as vulnerable minorities from the Kosovar Roma community and persons with reasonable claims for protection that have gone unheard.…”

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Unity Amid Barbed Wire: Asylum Restrictions, European Integration and the Migration Crisis

Dahlman

2016

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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This article examines how the recent European response to Syrian refugees was shaped by and remains closely entwined with the Europe Union's reaction to asylum-seekers since the 1990s. The wars in Bosnia and Kosovo led to the expanded use of barriers to entry, temporary forms of protection and coerced refugee returns. These policies have undermined Europe's humanitarian obligations to vulnerable migrants. European policies have also failed to significantly improve conditions in the countries of origin, undermining political stability and economic development and driving new rounds of migrants to Europe. Successfully addressing migration from Syria and other countries well beyond Europe's more secure borders will require unprecedented commitments to deliver effective international assistance from EU countries already debating the future of the union.

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“…On visa liberalization process in the countries of the Western Balkans and how it affected the status and rights dimension of citizenship in the region seeKacarska 2012. …”

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Citizenship as Lived Experience: Belonging and Documentality after the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Vasiljević¹

2014

SSRN Journal

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Citizenship is usually thought of in terms of legal and political parameters setting the conditions for individuals' statuses and rights, and so has been the case in its application to the post-Yugoslav context. With the primary interest in the "topdown" perspective, citizenship has been described as a tool with which new states regulated their respective citizenship bodies. But, equally, by granting us documents (passports, birth and marriage certificates, IDs, etc.) which connect us to a wider community, and by employing an array of ethnic, cultural and state symbols, citizenship instills us with a sense of belonging, membership and identity. Furthermore, through our enacting of rights and duties of citizenship, it becomes an inextricable element of our everyday experience. It is especially when questioned and contested that citizenship plays a significant role in how we perceive ourselves, how we appear to others and how intergroup relations are mediated. This paper focuses on personal narratives that reveal lived experiences of the triangular relationship between citizenship, identity and (national) belonging in the post-Yugoslav space. Its aim is to shed some light on a less examined perspective of citizenship transformations, and to complement the currently existing literature on citizenship regimes in the post-Yugoslav states with a bottom-up approach that treats citizenship in its identity-forming and recognition-bearing social role.

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Europeanisation Through Mobility: Visa Liberalisation and Citizenship Regimes in the Western Balkans

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Balkans and Baltics: On Migration as a Factor of Regional Peripheralization

Balkans and Baltics: On Migration as a Factor of Regional Peripheralization

Unity Amid Barbed Wire: Asylum Restrictions, European Integration and the Migration Crisis

Citizenship as Lived Experience: Belonging and Documentality after the Breakup of Yugoslavia

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