The EU's Proxy War on Refugees

Hintjens, Helen; Bilgiç, Ali

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“…These dynamics have led some to argue that EU migration diplomacy in this area has in effect been akin to engaging in 'proxy wars' . 103 For example, the EU funding of enhanced border control in Turkey via the 2016 EU-Turkey deal has supported the building of border fences that disrupt local Kurdish networks on the ground. Another illustration of the complex interlinkages between European asylum policy and EU-Turkey relations emerged when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo g an suggested in May 2022 that Turkey would not support Finnish and Swedish membership in NATO due to them being 'guesthouses for terrorist organisations' -a clear reference to Kurdish organisations operating in Sweden.…”

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Migration governance in civil war: The case of the Kurdish conflict

Young

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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This article examines the management and instrumentalisation of migration and mobility as an area of contested governance in civil wars. Building on work in migration studies and rebel governance, it shows how migration and mobility regimes form part of the structure of violent armed conflicts, as both states and non-state actors seek to control processes and consequences of mobility and migration to their advantage. Governance of migration during conflict involves the strategic use of mechanisms of migration governance for the purposes of achieving conflict aims. This article develops a framework for understanding how migration governance is instrumentalised in civil war as a means of managing and controlling populations. The framework is then applied to the case of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey and beyond through an analysis of three areas of migration governance that have played significant roles in this extended regional conflict: forced migration and refugee governance; border management; and diaspora engagement. The analysis provides a challenge to dominant state-centric, securitisation and humanitarian approaches to migration and security by pointing to the political and spatial complexity of contested migration governance in situations of protracted conflict.

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Migration governance in civil war: The case of the Kurdish conflict

Young

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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“…the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris Climate Agreement, the WHO), the current situation looks bleak for defenders of neo-liberal norms and values. On the European side of the equation, the EU's disappointing record is matching the USA's, as it fails to probe war crimes and ethnic cleansing and violates the rights of refugees (Hintjens & Bilgic, 2019). Although, the EU still claims to engage in normative behaviour, such claims are increasingly hard to believe, since they have failed to support new international norms such as R2P within the UN architecture (Acharya, 2013).…”

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Tamil diaspora activism in the post-liberal international order: navigating politics and norms

Jayasundara-Smits

2020

Globalizations

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Diasporas play a key role in universal norm transfer processes, mainly through transnational political activism. For decades, Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora activists have been drawing attention to injustices in the home country by and applying liberal, cosmopolitan normative frameworks. The use of these frameworks helps these actors to advance their transnational political goals and to cultivate transnational political networks that aid in advancing their struggles to influence positive change in Sri Lanka. In the current post-liberal phase of international politics, the main architects of the liberal, cosmopolitan international norms, who previously supported their implementation, have started to abandon them. This turnaround has tragically coincided with an increasingly hostile reception to these norms in Sri Lanka, home of the Tamil diaspora. This article examines how the recent retraction of and reaction to international norms in international and national politics is reshaping Tamil diasporic transnational political activism and transnational-national political relationships.

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“…Across the political spectrum, there exists a wide consensus that Europe has been subject to an uncontrollable mass influx of migrants and that this amounts to a ‘crisis’. 1 This moral panic over migration has, in turn, legitimized the intensification of ‘exceptional’ measures aimed at securing Europe’s borders and what some refer to as a ‘proxy war’ against the poor and the paperless (Hintjens and Bilgic, 2019).…”

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Policing the (migrant) crisis: Stuart Hall and the defence of whiteness

Danewid

2021

Security Dialogue

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Over the last two decades, the European border regime has become the subject of a growing body of scholarship in critical security studies. In this article, I draw on Stuart Hall’s work on racialized policing, authoritarian populism and conjunctural analysis to argue that this literature has paid insufficient attention to the close relationship between racism, capitalism and state violence. Writing at the dawn of Thatcherism and neoliberal globalization, Hall theorized the growth in repressive state structures as a revanchist response to breakdowns in racial hegemony. Revisiting these insights, the article argues that the ongoing expansion of the European border regime is a hegemonic strategy of racialized crisis management. The imposition of ever more restrictive immigration policies, increased surveillance and heightened forms of deportability are attempts to defend white bourgeois order and to police a (neoliberal) racial formation in crisis. The migrant ‘crisis’ is ultimately the result of one racialized world order collapsing, and another struggling to be born.

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The EU's Proxy War on Refugees

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Migration governance in civil war: The case of the Kurdish conflict

Migration governance in civil war: The case of the Kurdish conflict

Tamil diaspora activism in the post-liberal international order: navigating politics and norms

Policing the (migrant) crisis: Stuart Hall and the defence of whiteness

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