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 language | English |
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Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
Publisher | European Futures |
Edition | Article No 35 |
Media of output | Blog post |
Publication status | Published - 16 Oct 2015 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Asylum
- Fortress Europe
- Migration
- Refugees
- Technocratisation