Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU

Dempsey, Kara E.

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102157

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“…For these reasons, we suggest using the model proposed by Dempsey (2020) not only to explore the occurrence of violence in the three distinct geopolitical spaces of the country of origin, the countries of transit, and the host European state but also to focus on transitions between one country and another, one's legal status (or the lack of it) and another. It is within these junctures too that migrants and asylum-seekers are made (even) more vulnerable and exposed to violence.…”

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“…When crossing the external or the internal borders of the EU, the UMs we interviewed were exposed toand often experienced-most if not all the typologies of violence outlined by Dempsey (2020). These manifestations of structural violence accumulate to form sequences that UMs must experience repeatedly in order to move further on along their planned journeys.…”

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Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

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Rota

Uzureau

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Studies have reported alarmingly high rates of traumatic experiences for refugee populations. While nearly all refugees experienced trauma in their country of origin, a vast majority of those seeking protection abroad also face (extreme) violence during their journeys and once in the country of destination. By concentrating on the migratory experiences of about 300 unaccompanied minors that we approached in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium, this article analyses how different forms of violence are inflicted on these young migrants while moving to Europe. By concentrating on personal accounts of (recurrent) interactions with the EU migration and border management tools, we reveal the structural violence within the day-to-day governance of migration. Often framed as unintended or accidental, the article discusses how violence is instead ubiquitous, as it is systematically inflicted on migrants—including unaccompanied minors—in the form of repeated series of violent events or “loops of violence.” Importantly, such manifestations of violence are perpetrated by key institutional and non-institutional actors in the “migration industry” who are (in)directly involved in managing migration both inside and outside of the EU. Conceptually, we rely on K. E. Dempsey’s political geography of the different typologies of violence within Europe’s governance of migration and asylum and use it to concentrate on key transitional phases/fractures in migratory trajectories—i.e., as unaccompanied young migrants (try to) cross international borders and legal boundaries.

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Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

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Uzureau

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“…It is important to note that illegal migration in other parts of the world involves similar abuse. For example, individuals fleeing to Europe experience physical, sexual, psychological, and verbal abuse (Dempsey, 2020). UNHCR estimates that thousands of people die and go missing at sea on this journey to Europe (UNHCR, 2020).…”

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Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees

Denny¹,

Dow²,

Levy³

et al. 2022

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.This paper is a product of the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions around the world.

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“…As this definition emphasises political and other forms of persecution as the conditions that compel individuals to flee their home countries, it excludes millions of individuals who are displaced because of other life-threatening conditions, such as natural calamities, from refugee designation. This rigid categorisation of displaced persons continues to produce social bodies whose fates are routinely determined by the assumption of sovereign borders and the exclusionary ontology upon which borders are predicated (e.g., Dempsey 2020;Hiemstra 2019;Myadar 2020). As such, the current global refugee regime has excluded more uprooted individuals from its mandated protection than it has included.…”

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“…The state-centred approach fails to attend to intimate, embodied, affective and emotional landscapes in understanding and problematising the effects of the regulation of forcibly displaced peoples (e.g., Hakli and Kallio 2014;Hiemstra 2019;Hyndman 2019;Koopman 2011;Mountz and Hyndman 2006). By de-centring the state and challenging the traditional production of geopolitical knowledge, this section draws attention to the intimate and finer scales of displacement and forced mobility (e.g., Dempsey 2020;McNevin 2019;Shindo 2019;Vayrynen et al 2017) The special section both engages and challenges the asymmetry of power embedded in the state-centred world order in an effort to situate the ongoing, slow and visceral violence experienced by globally-displaced persons and to elucidate the intimate and embodied geographies such violence produces. By doing so, we also highlight the power of human agency and collective activism to challenge, subvert or otherwise negotiate the symbolic and physical grids of borders, surveillance and control within the global world order.…”

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Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime

Myadar

Dempsey

2021

Geopolitics

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Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the plight of refugees, stateless, and internally-displaced people remains a crucial global issue. The current COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent growth of restrictions and barriers to mobility and resettlement have further exacerbated the challenges faced by displaced persons.Recent and emerging geographic scholarship has paid considerable attention to the interlocking themes of mobility, borders, immigration and displacement as critical to understanding the current global refugee crisis. Geopolitics, in particular, has featured several themed issues and sections that attend to the various ways borders and bordering practices shape and inform migration, mobility and displacement. In 1998, then-editor David Newman organised a special issue on Boundaries and Territories and Postmodernity. This plenary special issue focused on the 'new world order' and the extent to which borders have become increasingly permeable in the post-Westphalian geopolitical context. The special issue also called for continued engagement with the subject of changing territorial orderings (Newman 1998).Over the last two decades, Geopolitics has sustained the conversation through special issues and sections on themes related to borders, mobility

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Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

Extortion and Civic Engagement among Guatemalan Deportees

Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime

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