Topics of Contributions
Technological Interventions in EU Border Management: Impacts on Migrant Mobility and Rights in Africa
The EU’s externalization policy on border management and migration control in Africa is increasingly relying on technology. This paper explores the impact of various technological interventions, including the Migration Information Data Analysis System in Nigeria, risk analysis cells in Niger, and biometric registration of migrants in Mauritania on people’s movement. The study finds that these […]
8 October 2024
Verstrickungen Sozialer Arbeit in die Externalisierung der EU-Migrationsregime
Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über verschiedene geopolitische Fragen kolonialer Kontinuitäten im Kontext von Migration und Mobilität.[1] Der zunehmend autoritäre Charakter des EU-Grenzmanagements wirft eine Reihe von Fragen zur Rolle der Sozialen Arbeit in einem sowohl ideologisch als auch politisch stark aufgeladenen Kontext auf. Auf der Grundlage einer kritischen Analyse der theoretischen und historischen Kontexte […]
8 October 2024
Social Work’s Entanglements in Externalization of EU Migration Regimes
This paper gives a summary of various geopolitical issues of colonial continuities in the context of migration and mobility.[1] The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that is heavily charged, both ideologically and politically. Based on critical analysis of […]
8 October 2024
Externalization, Human Dignity and Asylum
This article is dedicated to the question of externalization and human dignity in the context of asylum in Europe. It is based on the assumption that administrative technologies that organize the accommodation of asylum seekers with the help of models of spatial segregation operate in a logic of externalization. This logic aims at the material […]
15 September 2024
Externalisierung, Menschenwürde und Asyl
Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der Frage der Externalisierung und Menschenwürde im Kontext von Asyl in Europa. Er geht von der Annahme aus, dass Verwaltungstechnologien, die die Unterbringung von Asylbewerber:innen mithilfe von Modellen räumlicher Segregation organisieren, in einer Logik der Externalisierung operieren. Diese Logik zielt auf die materielle Umsetzung der Separierung einer Bevölkerungsgruppe von der Mehrheitsgesellschaft […]
15 September 2024
The Geopolitics of Externalization: Diplomacy, Deal-Making and Transactional Forced Migration
In the current political environment, states and their proxies go to great lengths to repel would-be asylum seekers and other migrants, increasingly using an array of tools of statecraft to prevent people from reaching their territories. These include externalizing migration processes in ways that feature transactional ‘deals’ and ‘partnerships’, which include a significant transfer of resources from one […]
14 September 2024
Zum Scheitern verurteilt. Die Auslagerung von Asylverfahren wird weiter diskutiert
Ruanda ist nicht das erste Land, mit dem europäische Staaten über die Aufnahme von Asylsuchenden aus Drittstaaten verhandeln. Nach dem Regierungswechsel in Großbritannien sind die „Ruanda-Pläne“ zwar vorerst vom Tisch. Dennoch wird in Europa weiterhin über eine Externalisierung von Asylverfahren etwa in afrikanische Staaten diskutiert. Die Umsetzung bleibt jedoch unwahrscheinlich, weil die Interessen der europäischen […]
11 September 2024
Outsourcing Asylum to African States? An endeavour destined to fail
Rwanda is not the first country to be addressed by European states in the matter of accepting third-country asylum seekers. The current debate is rather the most recent endeavour in an ongoing externalization effort that tries to convince African countries by various carrot and stick methods to take back their own “rejected” nationals, and ideally, […]
11 September 2024
Flipping the Narrative on Border Externalisation: An African Migrant Perspective
Border externalisation represents a growing trend in global migration policy, where nations seek to manage migration flows by pushing their border controls beyond their own territories. This practice disproportionately impacts African migrants, who face significant challenges and dangers as a result. This short piece examines these impacts through the lens of an African migrant scholar […]
26 August 2024
Moving beyond externalisation? Toward lawful cooperation on asylum
As externalisation is back on the policy agenda in a number of regions around the world, it is timely to examine the definition of the concept, noting that it is not a legal term of art and does not appear in any international treaty. Moreover, it is crucial to understand the international legal frameworks within […]
8 August 2024