The Changing Spatiality of the “European Refugee/Migrant Crisis”

Rogelj, Boštjan

doi:10.11567/met.33.2.4

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“…Some of these measures and agreements were established prior to the large influx of asylum seekers in 2015, while others were deployed during the influx or after the closure of the West Balkan corridor (Skleparis 2017;Tudoroiu 2017). The most recent such agreements -the one reached in 2016 between the EU and Turkey, as well as those in 2017 between EU countries and several African states such as Libya, Niger and Chad -are the most evident examples of such externalisation policy (Rogelj 2017;author). 3 The second line of deterrence includes border controls and obstacles that operate at the Schengen borders.…”

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“…In addition to these obstacles, several countries deploy police and military forces. Border patrols, pushbacks, movement detectors, radars and other such military-technological devices are also used as parts of deterrence strategies (Bigo 2014;Rogelj 2017;author 2018).…”

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“…The emergence of the semi-legal migration corridor in the Balkans reduced the costs of migration and gave migrants a window of opportunity to reach preferable destination countries at the core of the EU with greater ease (Greider 2017;Rogelj 2017). The peak in arrivals occurred in 2015.…”

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European Asylum Policies and the Stranded Asylum Seekers in Southeastern Europe

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Jakobsen

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Journal of Refugee Studies

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This article focuses on the restrictive European asylum policies and on their humanitarian consequences in Southeastern Europe. We discuss two interrelated topics: (i) the dynamic of the migration of asylum seekers to Europe and (ii) the specific position of Southeastern European countries and the situation of stranded migrants in the region. We identify central elements in the European asylum system and suggest that different parts of the system may be seen as a set of interacting lines of deterrence used to curb asylum migrations. It is argued herein that Greece and the other countries at the southern borders of the European Union have an idiosyncratic position within the European system of deterrence. Furthermore, we discuss how European deterrence policies and local responses influence the migration patterns of asylum seekers in Southeastern Europe. It is maintained that the deterrence measures have contributed to increasing the number of stranded asylum seekers in the region, especially in Greece with clear and regrettable humanitarian consequences.

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European Asylum Policies and the Stranded Asylum Seekers in Southeastern Europe

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Jakobsen

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Journal of Refugee Studies

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“…Migration and the deaths of thousands of people attempting to cross the EU external border for refuge, better life and economic prospects were among the most prominent and dramatic events that dominated the first two decades of the 21st century. This culminated into the so-called 2015 European migration crisis, in which over a million irregular migrants crossed into the EU from the Middle East and Africa and allegedly threatened to undermine the EU culture and single market (Diez, 2019;Mezei, 2018;Rogelj, 2017). Although the majority of people migrating to Europe in 2015 probably came from Syria, mainstream media and some academic literature suggest that migrants originating from Africa through the Mediterranean Sea significantly contributed to the crisis (Crawley & Skleparis, 2018;Flahaux & de Haas, 2016;Hammond, 2015;Inwood, 2017;Mackintosh, 2017;Mussi, 2018;Thorleifsson, 2017).…”

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Rational Actors, Passive and Helpless Victims, Neither, Both: EU Borders and the Drive to Migrate in the Horn of Africa

Nshimbi

2021

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This article argues that neither borders nor the ways in which migrants see them constitute significant deterrents to the migrants’ resolve to migrate. The argument is based on an investigation of migrants en route to Europe from the Horn of Africa and the ways in which they see EU external borders and how that contributes to the decision to migrate. The article advances critiques of rational choice models of migrant decision-making that are based mainly on economic factors and contributes to theoretical explanations of why some people in the Horn of Africa migrate irregularly, despite measures enforced by state authorities to curb their movement. The article draws on a qualitative thematic analysis of personal face-to-face interviews conducted with migrants from four countries in the Horn of Africa who were in Ethiopia at the time of the research. In the interviews, there was sufficient evidence that migrants had realistic perceptions of European borders and that life in Europe might not be rosy. But this did not dampen the resolve to migrate. Solutions other than those that inhibit movement but understand, are sensitive to and include the perceptions of migrants are more likely to effectively address challenges associated with irregular migration.

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“…During 2015 and 2016, the European Union (EU) encountered an increased arrival of more than a million forced migrants and has employed solutions for their immediate reception, or in the case of Croatia, for the organisation of their swift transit to Western Europe (Šelo Šabić, 2017), which was a reaction similar to that of other neighbouring countries, at least before the tactics of setting razor-wires and army on borders took over. 1 The situation, oftentimes coined as the so-called "European migration/refugee crisis" (European Commission, 2016;Rogelj, 2017) of unprecedented scale, has shifted the position of Western Balkan countries from refugee producing (back in the 1990s) and traditional emigration countries, to transit territories for a vast majority of forced migrants on their way to Western Europe (cf. Sardelić, 2017;Pastore, 2019).…”

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Strengthening Borders, Managing Centres: Reception Conditions and Provisions of Services to Asylum Seekers in Croatia

Pandek¹,

Župarić-Iljić

2018

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This article analyses the impact that the Common European Asylum System may have on asylum seekers residing in reception centres within Croatia, as well as more recent challenges related to increased asylum seekers' numbers and difficulties they might pose for the reception standards and provision of services. We posit that a degree of variation occurs in the treatment of asylum seekers throughout reception centres in the EU. The analysis sheds light on the Croatian asylum reception system, one that had been legally obligated to fully harmonise its policies with the EU acquis during the EU accession process. Based on the field research in the form of semi-structured interviews among the stakeholders and asylum seekers at the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers Kutina in 2016, the findings will demonstrate that although Croatia has fully adapted its regulations to the Reception Conditions Directive, there are still issues regarding the minimum standards of quality of reception, service provision and future integration of protection claimants. The authors contend that gaps and insufficiencies in the reception conditions and standards are directly decreasing asylum seekers' future prospects by affecting their chances of integration into Croatian society and resulting in significant secondary movement of these migrants to other EU countries. Even more, in the aftermath of the Balkan corridor, the present challenges of increased numbers of asylum applicants are calling for the planning of new and proper reception facilities, which is difficult to accomplish in the context of overtly securitised asylum and migration policies.

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The Changing Spatiality of the “European Refugee/Migrant Crisis”

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

European Asylum Policies and the Stranded Asylum Seekers in Southeastern Europe

European Asylum Policies and the Stranded Asylum Seekers in Southeastern Europe

Rational Actors, Passive and Helpless Victims, Neither, Both: EU Borders and the Drive to Migrate in the Horn of Africa

Strengthening Borders, Managing Centres: Reception Conditions and Provisions of Services to Asylum Seekers in Croatia

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