A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights
Abstract This paper takes stock of the emerging literature on the governance and framing of both migration and asylum as ‘crises’. This study carries forward this line of thinking by showing how the crisis governance of migration is not just a representation or a discourse but emerges as a mode of g...
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| author | Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek Soner Barthoma N. Ela Gökalp-Aras Anna Triandafyllidou |
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| description | Abstract This paper takes stock of the emerging literature on the governance and framing of both migration and asylum as ‘crises’. This study carries forward this line of thinking by showing how the crisis governance of migration is not just a representation or a discourse but emerges as a mode of governance with specific features. The study focuses on the refugee emergency of 2015–2016, covering however a longer time frame (2011–2018) and a wide set of 11 countries (those neighbouring Syria: Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey; countries that were mainly transit points: Greece, Italy, Poland and Hungary; and countries that were mainly destination points (Austria, Germany, Sweden and the UK). Through the meta-analysis of a broad set of materials arising out of the RESPOND research project, we identified three interacting governance features in times of crisis. These include (1) a multilevel but complex actor landscape (2) complicated and fragmented legal systems and policy provisions that may vary both at the temporal and territorial level; (3) a renationalisation narrative that seeks to bring this multifaceted and fragmented governance landscape together under the promise that the national state can re-establish control and solve the ‘crisis.’ |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2b01c7fa32804bf8bf1c780facd594182022-12-21T23:34:22ZengSpringerOpenComparative Migration Studies2214-594X2022-03-0110111910.1186/s40878-022-00284-2A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insightsZeynep Sahin-Mencutek0Soner Barthoma1N. Ela Gökalp-Aras2Anna Triandafyllidou3Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies, BICCUppsala University, Engelska ParkenSwedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII)Department of Sociology, CERC Migration, Ryerson UniversityAbstract This paper takes stock of the emerging literature on the governance and framing of both migration and asylum as ‘crises’. This study carries forward this line of thinking by showing how the crisis governance of migration is not just a representation or a discourse but emerges as a mode of governance with specific features. The study focuses on the refugee emergency of 2015–2016, covering however a longer time frame (2011–2018) and a wide set of 11 countries (those neighbouring Syria: Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey; countries that were mainly transit points: Greece, Italy, Poland and Hungary; and countries that were mainly destination points (Austria, Germany, Sweden and the UK). Through the meta-analysis of a broad set of materials arising out of the RESPOND research project, we identified three interacting governance features in times of crisis. These include (1) a multilevel but complex actor landscape (2) complicated and fragmented legal systems and policy provisions that may vary both at the temporal and territorial level; (3) a renationalisation narrative that seeks to bring this multifaceted and fragmented governance landscape together under the promise that the national state can re-establish control and solve the ‘crisis.’https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00284-2CrisisAsylumRefugee emergencyLegal fragmentationThe multiplicity of actorsRenationalisation |
| spellingShingle | Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek Soner Barthoma N. Ela Gökalp-Aras Anna Triandafyllidou A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights Comparative Migration Studies Crisis Asylum Refugee emergency Legal fragmentation The multiplicity of actors Renationalisation |
| title | A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights |
| title_full | A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights |
| title_fullStr | A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights |
| title_full_unstemmed | A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights |
| title_short | A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights |
| title_sort | crisis mode in migration governance comparative and analytical insights |
| topic | Crisis Asylum Refugee emergency Legal fragmentation The multiplicity of actors Renationalisation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00284-2 |
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