The Symbolic Power of Knowledge Practices: The International Organization for Migration’s Anti-Trafficking Politics in North Africa

Geopolitics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 26

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

This article examines how the International Organization for Migration (IOM) brought human trafficking into being as a widely acknowledged reality and relevant object of migration governance in North Africa early 2000s. It mobilises Pierre Bourdieu's concepts symbolic capital power to demonstrate IOM emerged influential position seemingly neutral, objective morally upright international expert that is able influence moral distinctions, enforce doxic beliefs set rules transnational field management. Through this borderwork, introduced care control, categories protection criminal persecution Moroccan Tunisian policies held authorities accountable combat line with norms, discourses practices. In way, contributes literature on organisations their knowledge practices geopolitics externalising control.

Язык: Английский

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Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies

Political Geography, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 105, С. 102911 - 102911

Опубликована: Июнь 8, 2023

Язык: Английский

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The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives

Environment and Planning D Society and Space, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 41(1), С. 110 - 129

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2023

Crisis narratives are widespread in migration and border governance globally, including EUrope. In response, a body of scholarship that critically scrutinizes crisis imaginaries has emerged. Building on further extending this scholarship, article questions the dichotomy between ‘normality’ ‘crisis’ governance. Focusing four moments which crises were declared relation to EUropean borders their immediate aftermath, we examine how European Union agency Frontex framed these events through an analysis its press releases, annual reports, practices. so doing, argue pertaining practices beyond invoke fears uncontrolled mass unruly ‘others’ as ever-present possibility perpetual threat Within article, propose differentiation protracted acute narratives. political work two do governance, demonstrate interplay contributed Frontex’s evolution expansion over last decades while consolidating externalization fortification borders.

Язык: Английский

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Civil Society and Municipal Activism Around Migration in the EU: A Multi-Scalar Alliance-Making

Geopolitics, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 29(4), С. 1245 - 1271

Опубликована: Июль 5, 2023

Civil society and municipal actors – the interaction between one another have become increasingly relevant in EU migration governance. Moving from this understanding, article explores instances of activism connection with proactive contentious role cities. It does so through in-depth analysis dual EU-wide network From Sea to City/International Alliance Safe Harbours, which gathers numerous civil initiatives municipalities aims achieve a radical change policies. Based on extensive empirical research, my contribution illustrates why emergence multi-scalar alliance around is result political agency these changing institutional opportunities constraints at different governance levels. In doing so, it spatial dimensions, cities transnational arenas, reflecting their significance construction an politics migration.

Язык: Английский

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Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities

Geopolitics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 20

Опубликована: Март 30, 2025

This article examines the perceptions of returning migrants and local communities regarding EU externalisation policies, specifically focusing on humanitarian return operations from Libya to Nigeria, subsequent reintegration efforts, preventive strategies such as awareness-raising campaigns. These measures, often framed interventions, are argued primarily serve instruments prevent migration EU, reflecting concept 'anti-policies' – policies that a dual agenda. Drawing ethnographic encounters in Benin City, explores how interpret these policies. Understanding nature actors recognise hidden agenda controlling flows under guise aid. In response, some returnee community members propose more radical effective methods support EU's border particularly through civic policing their co-nationals. adaptations, while engaging with broader goals control, also reflect pragmatic understanding leverage for personal or gain. For community, proposals offer an opportunity increase income aligning expectations collective West, highlighting persistence neocolonial dynamics contemporary management.

Язык: Английский

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Political geography I: Blue geopolitics

Progress in Human Geography, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 48(5), С. 669 - 676

Опубликована: Авг. 11, 2024

This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the political geographies oceans. While oceans were overlooked for many years as theories sovereignty, territory, and borders focused terrestrial politics, significant impact climate change resulted in a new focus role place global environmental systems. At same time, enclosure over 40 percent territorial seas, exclusive economic zones, extended continental shelves through Convention Law Sea produced burgeoning literature maritime conflicts. The proposes concept blue geopolitics to capture oceanic turn geography theories.

Язык: Английский

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Civil Society and Migration Governance across European Borderlands

Journal of Intercultural Studies, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 44(1), С. 1 - 11

Опубликована: Дек. 27, 2022

Язык: Английский

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From Policy to Reality: Examining the Rippling Effects of Return Migration Governance in Nigeria

International Migration Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 4, 2024

In the global effort to address irregular migration, leaders from Africa and Europe collaborate implement policies aimed at enabling safe return reintegration of migrants. Nigeria played a vital role as regional partner in this effort, highlighted 2015 Valletta Summit. However, challenges faced by returnees, including violence, job scarcity, limited resources, demonstrate that these are not without difficulties. This article examines expanding migration industry Nigeria, its connections EU border policies, socioeconomic political impacts. Through empirical analysis, study explores roles different actors facilitating processes, governmental bodies, intermediaries such International Organization for Migration lesser known German Society Cooperation, local civil society organizations. The analysis reveals rippling effects establishment new industries services, changes governance organizational frameworks, notable economic spatial transformations. Key issues examined include influence corruption, international organizations like Migration, experiences returnees groups. concludes calling decolonization governance, enhanced transparency accountability, centering returnees’ voices perspectives develop more equitable responsive interventions.

Язык: Английский

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Traversing Borders and Creating Networks at Sea: The Case of Fishers in the South China Sea

Geopolitics, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 29(3), С. 1046 - 1071

Опубликована: Май 17, 2023

This research focuses on the under-studied phenomenon of maritime borders by providing a civilian perspective how fishers live, negotiate, contest, and transcend state surveillance at sea. It explores everyday transboundary practices Chinese in geopolitically sensitive South China Sea (SCS), examining their cross-border tactics to sustain fishing livelihoods mechanisms underpinning these tactics. Based long-term, continuous ethnographic investigations, we unravel four employed elude constraints territorial borders: contract production, trans-territorial paying for sea, appropriation marine physicality. These strategies are supported three mechanisms, including common fisher identity, historical transnational networks, regional development structures. shows agency creativity challenging punctuating territoriality context increasing militarisation securitisation borderlands. illustrates distinct materiality, mobility, temporality ocean can be weaponised undermine state-bordering processes. By exposing extensive, dynamic, complex interactions collaborations region, demonstrate that SCS is more than geopolitical space but same time social site cooperation solidarity. In doing so, this contributes studies subjectivity illuminating flexibility exercising powers also advances existing area 'peopling' political geography region.

Язык: Английский

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Advocates, Implementers or Allies? NGOs between Humanitarian Borderwork and Migration Management in Libya

Journal of Intercultural Studies, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 44(1), С. 110 - 124

Опубликована: Дек. 27, 2022

ABSTRACTThis article explores the complex terrain non-government organisations (NGOs) navigate when working in humanitarian borderwork on migration management programs transit sites. Drawing example of Libya it shows scope and challenges for NGOs sites aims to advance understanding what means work within structures. International local CSOs are deeply involved often as implementing partners UN agencies receipt sizeable grants. This illustrates how Libya, one most prominent sites, their dual roles managers actors. It draws desk-based research, policy analysis interviews conducted with Libyans actors alongside observations from author based first-hand field experience that demonstrates in-between relationship has resulted becoming advocates, implementers allies. highlights a gap research about intersection between importance particularity context implications this general given growing demands schemes.KEYWORDS: Libyamigration managementNGOsirregular migrationcentral Mediterraneanhumanitarianism AcknowledgementsThe would like thank two reviewers fellow guest editors insightful review, which helped improve quality paper.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict interest was reported by author(s).Notes1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/at-least-19-migrants-missing-after-boat-capsizes-off-coast-of-libya. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210930-libya-niger-discuss-irregular-migration-crisis/.Additional informationNotes contributorsMelissa PhillipsMelissa Phillips is Lecturer School Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Her interests include migration, mobility, displacement refugee settlement. latest book Phillips, M., & Olliff, L. (eds). Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons Australia Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).

Язык: Английский

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