A Clash of Paradigms for Asylum Seekers: Border Security and Human Security

2016 ◽  
pp. 191-204
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Border Security

scholarly journals SECURITIZATION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE AT SEA: THE RESPONSE TO BOAT MIGRATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OFFSHORE AUSTRALIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ghezelbash ◽  
Violeta Moreno-Lax ◽  
Natalie Klein ◽  
Brian Opeskin
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractThis article compares the law and practice of the European Union and Australia in respect to the search and rescue (SAR) of boat migrants, concluding that the response to individuals in peril at sea in both jurisdictions is becoming increasingly securitized. This has led to the humanitarian purpose of SAR being compromised in the name of border security. Part I contrasts the unique challenge posed by SAR operations involving migrants and asylum seekers, as opposed to other people in distress at sea. Part II analyses the relevant international legal regime governing SAR activities and its operation among European States and in offshore Australia. Part III introduces the securitization framework as the explanatory paradigm for shifting State practice and its impact in Europe and Australia. It then examines the consequences of increasing securitization of SAR in both jurisdictions and identifies common trends, including an increase in militarization and criminalization, a lack of transparency and accountability, developments relating to disembarkation andnon-refoulement, and challenges relating to cooperation and commodification.

Can Politics Practice Compassion?

Hypatia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Porter
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Vulnerable People

On realist terms, politics is about power, security, and order, and the question of whether politics can practice compassion is irrelevant. The author argues that a politics of compassion is possible and necessary in order to address human security needs. She extend debates on care ethics to develop a politics of compassion, using the example of asylum seekers to demonstrate that politics can practice compassion with (1) attentiveness to the needs of vulnerable people who are suffering, (2) an active listening to the voices of the vulnerable, and (3) open, compassionate, and appropriate responses to particular needs.

scholarly journals Apuntes sobre la seguridad fronteriza en la frontera México-Estados Unidos ante la movilidad humana y desde el paradigma de la seguridad humana

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Emiliano Ignacio Díaz Carnero ◽  
Miguel Ángel Ríos
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Initial Approach ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Future Work

The objective of this paper is to make an initial approach to both the human security paradigm and the issues of border security and migration at the northern Mexican border. The approach is conceptual and arises from Geography for peace, a perspective that articulates the approaches of critical geography (political geography from political economy and geographical historical materialism), human rights, and peace studies and conflicts transformation. The conclusions focus on proposing a paradigm shift in border security, moving from a national security approach focused on the State, to one focused on people and their rights, and is guided by the principle of shared responsibility. Despite being an initial approach, the text seeks to promote a paradigm shift, to in future work, provide concrete strategies and lines of action that contribute to materialize the human security approach at the borders of Mexico.

ASYLUM SEEKER OR SEEKER OF A BETTER LIFE? WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WITHIN CATEGORIZATION?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Sari Lindblom-Häkkinen ◽  
Maisa Anttila
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
The Individual

Migrants are often classified based on the reasons of emigration and way of travel. In this paper our aim is to focus on the stories and discourses of humanitarian migration from different perspectives offering first; the new category of classification of the migrants, second; the new way to face asylum seekers and third; to make a questionable necessity of classification over all: what kind of added value the classification gives and to whom in the end of the day? We are focusing on this phenomenon in the context of border security. We will identify how the consequences of natural forces (e.g. earthquake) impacts emigration. In this paper, we argue that the individual life situations, cultural discourses and societal factors all are important for understanding the phenomenon of migration. Thus, suggest of a new category of migration, is “seeking better life”. However, at the same time we recognize that often the categories overlap and depend on the perspective.

scholarly journals The human (in)security trap: how European border(ing) practices condemn migrants to vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iole Fontana
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis article explores the experience of migrants at Europe’s borders and beyond building upon the notion of human security—or rather its antithesis insecurity—and looking at it afresh through the lenses of border studies. It introduces the concept of ‘human insecurity trap’ as a tool to grasp the insecurities and vulnerabilities of people-on-the-move and the different border(ing)s, barriers and confinements they stem from. The article argues that smuggling to and across Europe, as well as EU and MS policy apparatus, entraps migrants into a spiral of human insecurity which unfolds at different levels and borders: at sea, in the ongoing struggle between smugglers and EU counter-smuggling operations; at the state border, where bureaucratic limbo and the (mis)management of shipwrecked migrants and asylum-seekers variously contend and combine with populist anti-migrant discourse; and across the EU, as practices of ‘re-smuggling’ and ‘secondary movement’ compete with practices of mobility limits, returns and border closures.

scholarly journals ‘Preventing people from risking their lives at sea’: Forced migration and the securitization of asylum seekers in Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 205789112110325
Author(s):  
Sixtus Obioma Ibekwe
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
National Sovereignty

There has been a tremendous increase in the treatment of asylum seekers as security threats following the 9/11 attack. Australia represents an example of a country that perceives asylum seekers as a threat to the national sovereignty of the country, and this has further exacerbated a new dimension in the securitization of asylum seekers in the country. This securitization has culminated in a range of border security programmes, and Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) represents the most recent of these. This article interrogates the OSB policy from the point of view of the rationale for its implementation. The article identifies that, contrary to the mission of the OSB, the detention of asylum seekers and the turn-back operations represent the variants of risks that asylum seekers are subjected to. The article therefore calls for a more accommodating approach in the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia.

Mistrust, anger, and hostility in refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants: A systematic review.

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
María José da Silva Rebelo ◽  
Mercedes Fernández ◽  
Joseba Achotegui
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Asylum Seekers
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