The Refugee Crisis Has Challenged Europe’s Outsourcing of Migration Control

Christina Boswell

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Abstract

The refugee crisis in Europe should not be understood simply as a humanitarian crisis, writes Christina Boswell. Those Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe represent just a small fraction of people displaced worldwide. Instead, she argues that the significance of the crisis lies in its disruption of the European project of outsourcing migration control. The arrival of refugees at EU borders has destabilised European efforts to distance itself physically from refugee flows, and to depict the issue as an abstract, statistical problem to be steered through targets.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationEdinburgh
PublisherEuropean Futures
EditionArticle No 35
Media of outputBlog post
Publication statusPublished - 16 Oct 2015

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Asylum
  • Fortress Europe
  • Migration
  • Refugees
  • Technocratisation

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