Abstract
Immigration has been a priority in the global political agenda for the last three decades. Migration governance, migration management and migration crisis have been the buzzwords of the migration scholars especially in the last ten years. Socioeconomic problems and systemic economic crisis are accompanied by blaming the migrants as scapegoats to shift the focus away from the wrong political and economic decisions taken by the governments, approved by the states. EU has been no exception to these phenomena. Accordingly, this paper investigates different strategies of the EU aiming to hinder, stop and exclude migrants’ movement in/to Europe. These strategies are patterned within both a globalized and Eurocentric understanding of migration based on exclusion: Restriction of numbers, repatriation, “voluntary” and forced return, externalization of migration, stratification of rights and temporariness. In this study, we examine these global and European policies on immigration control, shedding light on how the EU adopts elements of globalized immigration prevention strategies based at the same time on a strong Eurocentric vision.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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MIGRATION MANAGAMENT, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS, EXTERNALISATION, MIGRATION POLICY, MIGRATION GOVERNANCE
