Survival Migration

Abstract

PREFACE ix my work along the way. This has been a very ambitious project in both theoretical and empirical scope. It has taken me outward from my disciplinary comfort zone of international relations into comparative politics, political philosophy, law, and African studies. In doing so, I have ventured far beyond my own areas of expertise and research networks, and I am greatly indebted to the grace, goodwill, and patience of the many people who have assisted me. This book would not have been possible without fieldwork and interviews, conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

Refugios y refugiados

“…Debido a esta multiplicidad y complejidad de factores de expulsión que se combinan, durante las dos últimas décadas los organismos internacionales y los académicos han propuesto nuevas categorías, tales como "migraciones forzadas" (Castles, 2003), migraciones mixtas (aCnur), migraciones de sobrevivencia (Betts, 2013) y expulsiones (Sassen, 2014). Parece existir cierta incomodidad con la definición clásica del refugio que proporcionó la Convención sobre el Estatuto del Refugiado de 1951, es decir una persona que "debido a fundados temores de ser perseguida por motivos de raza, religión, nacionalidad, pertenencia a determinado grupo social u opiniones políticas, se encuentre fuera del país de su nacionalidad y no pueda o, a causa de dichos temores, no quiera acogerse a la protección de tal país".…”

Living With Xenophobia

“…-Under conditions of survival migration, the traditional distinction between refugees and economic migrants breaks down. 12 The argument that all Zimbabwean migrants should be the view that conditions in Zimbabwe are so bad that out-migration for survival is the only the role of migration in reducing pressures for further out-migration through remittances. 13 homogenizing migrant flows and downplaying the heterogeneity of migration movement seems to rest on the desperate situation of migrants in squalid transit shelters in the border town of Musina and at overcrowded safe havens such as churches.…”

The Push and Pull Factors Contributing Towards Asylum Migration from Developing Countries to Developed Countries Since 2000

“…The strictness of asylum policies, which are supposed to be fair across destination countries, show disparities even after controlling for the characteristics of asylum seekers in different countries (Holzer et al, 2000;Neumayer, 2005a;Schuster, 2011;Toshkov, 2014;Brekke et al, 2017). Betts (2013) contends that asylum migration should be analysed in relation to the fundamental question: which groups of asylum seekers are entitled protection? Human-rights violations have been found to have substantial influence on asylum migration to developed countries (Neumayer, 2005b;Hatton and Moloney, 2015;Hatton, 2016).…”