Death at the Border: Revisiting the Debate in Light of the Euro-Mediterranean Migration Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-388
Author(s):  
Antoine Pécoud
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Lethal Effects ◽  
Behavioral Scientist ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Mediterranean Migration ◽  
The Arab Spring

Migrant deaths at the border is a long-standing consequence of border control. The lethal effects of irregular migration have become particularly salient in the Euro-Mediterranean region since the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2011, as several thousand migrants have been losing their lives every year. This special issue of American Behavioral Scientist revisits the debate on border deaths in the light of this context. This article introduces this special issue and outlines the key arguments developed therein.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL FOREWORD

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-623
Author(s):  
Beth Baron ◽  
Sara Pursley
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Editorial Foreword

We are thrilled to present this special issue of IJMES on “Maghribi Histories in the Modern Era” with guest editor Julia Clancy-Smith. The issue was conceived as an effort to bring scholarship on the Maghrib and Mashriq into closer dialogue. We issued the call for papers in December 2010, weeks before the self-immolation of Muhammad al-Buʿazizi in Tunisia triggered the string of upheavals often referred to as the Arab Spring. That North Africa took the lead in upending authoritarian regimes makes this issue especially timely. Although none of the pieces deals directly with contemporary events, they provide innovative ways for thinking about historical transformations and genealogies.

Outsourcing Hotspot Governance within the EU: Cultural Mediators as Humanitarian–Border Workers in Greece

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aila Spathopoulou ◽  
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio ◽  
Jouni Hakli
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Mediterranean Migration ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Responding to the self-declared “Mediterranean migration crisis” in 2015, the European Commission launched a Hotspot Approach to speed up the handling of incoming migrants in the “frontline states” of Greece and Italy. A key element in this operation is the identification of those eligible for asylum, which requires effective communication across cultural and linguistic difference between the asylum system and the migrants, facilitated by officially designated “cultural mediators.” We assess the hotspot governance as a form of outsourcing border control within the EU territory. Beyond sorting out and separating migrants into the categories of deservingness and undeservingness, we propose that the hotspot mechanism represents “governing by communication,” with cultural mediators as key players in this humanitarian–bordering strategy. A focus on how cultural mediators provide the precarious human labor for this governance, offers, we argue, a productive inroad into the ways in which the hotspot economies of deterrence, containment, and care sustain inequalities embedded in race, socioeconomic status, and citizenship.

The Migration Crisis and the European Union Border Regime

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Border Control ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Border Controls ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Control Regime ◽  
The Eu

This chapter is concerned with the various ways in which the migration crisis since the Arab Spring of 2011 has reshaped the reach of the EU border control regime. Within the EU framework, Frontex has acquired a greater role, while Schengen states have new powers to reintroduce internal border controls. In the external sphere, the EU now cooperates with a broader range of third states—Libya and Turkey most prominently—while developing more extensive forms of cooperation with them. The chapter will argue that this pattern—incremental internal changes and hyperactivity in the external sphere—is a product of intergovernmental constraints upon EU policy in a core area of member state sovereignty. The avoidance by EU Member States of legal responsibility for asylum applicants and other migrants is a further reason for the preference for externalization.

Political Upheavals, Tourism Flight, and Spillovers: The Case of the Arab Spring

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728752110026
Author(s):  
José L. Groizard ◽  
Mohanad Ismael ◽  
María Santana-Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Arab Spring

This article exploits the Arab Spring, which occurred in 2011, as a natural experiment to study the effect of political upheavals on international travel. We find that foreign tourists’ demand to travel to countries experiencing Arab Spring episodes was sharply reduced and persisted after two years. We also find evidence of two different spillover effects: a tourism diversion to rest of the world, and a regional contagion to geographically nearby countries (other Arab countries that did not experience Arab Spring episodes and the Mediterranean region, although with heterogenous effects across individual countries). To disentangle how spillovers are channeled, we test whether geographical and cultural (Islamic) affinity play any role. We find that diversion is explained by the attitudes of Western tourists but not of those whose origin is Arabic. Furthermore, we find that the contagion caused by the Arab Spring is stronger for the nearest Muslim countries. JEL codes: F14, F51, H12, O11

scholarly journals EU policy on irregular migration: the impact of the refugee crisis 2014-2015

2017 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
N. N. Bolshova
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Migrant Smuggling ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Mediterranean Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The paper reviews the current EU policy on irregular migration under the influence of refugee crisis. This crisis urged the EU to streamline and consolidate all the available legal, political and administrative tools to reach the synergy effect in the management of immigration flows into the EU. However the main weakness of the EU approach appears to be the dependence on the opportunities and interests of the third countries (of origin and transit of irregular migrants) to cooperate effectively with the EU institutions and Member-states in such key spheres as fight against migrant smuggling, security of external borders, implementation of readmission agreements, asylum policy. The author evaluates the state of progress on the main Mediterranean migration routes since the beginning of the migration crisis in 2014, analyses some recent EU initiatives, particularly the EU NAVFOR MED Operation Sophia and the new Partnership Framework with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration. In conclusion, the author attempts to assess the effects of these actions.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL FOREWORD

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-397
Author(s):  
Beth Baron ◽  
Sara Pursley
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Editorial Foreword

This issue starts with a section on modern Morocco, in anticipation of the upcoming IJMES special issue on Maghribi histories in the modern era. Our call for papers for the special issue was released in December 2010, just before the events of the “Arab Spring” accelerated what was likely the already growing importance of Maghrib scholarship within the broader field of Middle East studies.

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