The Syrian refugee crisis: The EU-Turkey ‘deal’ and temporary protection

Rygiel, Kim; Baban, Feyzi; Ilcan, Suzan

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“…266-267). Despite its admirable promises, then, resilience-building is not unlike other strategies to buttress "Fortress Europe," albeit perhaps in a less obvious manner than, for example, the EU-Turkey deal (Rygiel, Baban, & Ilcan, 2016;Zoomers, van Noorloos, & van Liempt, 2018).…”

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Under the guise of resilience: The EU approach to migration and forced displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

Anholt

Sinatti

2019

Contemporary Security Policy

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Building "resilience" to insecurity and crisis is high on the European Union (EU) agenda. EU uptake of this buzzword is especially significant with regard to migration and forced displacement. Uncertainty, however, remains about what resilience is, how it translates into practice, and what its implications are. In this article, we analyze EU humanitarian and development policies and provide empirical insight into resilience-building in Jordan and Lebanon. We show that EU resilience thinking highlights strengthening the humanitariandevelopment nexus, responsibilizing crisis-affected states, and framing refugees as an economic development opportunity for refugee-hosting states. We also find that how resilience translates into practice depends on the local context and interests of the actors involved. For the EU, resilience-building is primarily a refugee containment strategy that could jeopardize the stability of refugee-hosting states. We conclude that resilience-building in Jordan and Lebanon may ultimately threaten rather than safeguard the security of Europe. KEYWORDS Resilience; European Union; humanitarian aid; development; migration; forced displacement Almost nine years into the Syria crisis, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has registered over 5.6 million Syrian refugees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2019). Although many have made the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean to reach Europe, most refugees remain in Syria's neighboring countries, notably Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. The European Union (EU) has taken up migration and displacement as key security challenges in the 2016 EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy. In particular, the EU has turned to building the

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Under the guise of resilience: The EU approach to migration and forced displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

Anholt

Sinatti

2019

Contemporary Security Policy

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“…Following the 2016 presidential election, immigrants in the United States have faced a climate of growing hostility marked by antiimmigrant political rhetoric, border militarization, and the revoking of rights to belonging and resources (Kerwin 2018). The significance of legal status distinctions has also grown internationally, particularly among countries affected by the global refugee crisis (Rygiel, Baban, and Ilcan 2016). Furthermore, my findings that lack of access to US education contributed to undocumented immigrants' depressed rates of civic participation have significant implications for recent efforts to end DACA.…”

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Legal Exclusion, Civic Exclusion: How Legal Status Stratifies Latino Immigrants’ Civic Engagement

Lai

2020

International Migration Review

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Unlike many other sociopolitical activities in the United States, civic engagement is not restricted by legal status and is often the initial and primary form of political action available to immigrants. Few studies, however, have disaggregated the impact of legal status on immigrants’ civic participation, despite civic engagement’s significance for immigrant incorporation and despite growing evidence of the stratifying effects of legal categories. Using Wave 1 of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, I nuance theories of legal status stratification by showing where legal status matters for Latino immigrants’ civic engagement and where it does not. Undocumented immigrants, I show, are significantly less likely to participate in general civic organizations, such as community and ethnic organizations, relative to documented immigrants. Likewise, undocumented mothers with undocumented children are less likely to volunteer in schools or participate in parent-teacher associations, compared to both documented mothers and undocumented mothers with documented children. By contrast, legal status does not stratify membership in religious institutions. Moreover, I theorize that undocumented immigrants’ lower levels of general civic engagement are partially mediated by access to US education, a significant site for immigrants’ civic development. This article informs understandings of legal status stratification and immigrant social incorporation.

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“…The Statement started with 'one-for-one' resettlement, wherein for every Syrian returned from the Greek islands to Turkey another would be resettled from Turkey to the EU (e.g., Rygiel et al 2016;Üstübici andİçduygu 2019). It viewed Turkey as a "safe third country," even though the country does not give legal refugee status to non-European asylum seekers, and there is a "wealth of evidence about the human rights violations and rule of law challenges in the country" (Carrera and Cortinovis 2020, p. 109).…”

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The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations

Ilcan

2021

Social Sciences

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Building on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the Syrian civil war. It advances the argument that during peoples’ fragmented journeys to seek safety and protection within and outside of Syria, which are often punctuated by stops and starts, they encounter one or more of three kinds of bordering practices—hardening of borders, expansion of borders, and pushbacks—that can injure them and violate international human rights and often the principle of non-refoulement. The article refers to these encounters as the “border harms of human displacement”. The analysis emphasizes the experiences of people on the move and the cruelties and spatial violence they endure. The latter include lengthy periods of walking and running, travel across hazardous lands and seas, family separation, state restrictions, and mistreatment by border authorities. Yet, in response to such difficulties, they continue to assert their agency by negotiating bordering practices and harsh landscapes.

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The Syrian refugee crisis: The EU-Turkey ‘deal’ and temporary protection

Cited by 76 publications

References 5 publications

Under the guise of resilience: The EU approach to migration and forced displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

Under the guise of resilience: The EU approach to migration and forced displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

Legal Exclusion, Civic Exclusion: How Legal Status Stratifies Latino Immigrants’ Civic Engagement

The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations

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