The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations
Building on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the Syrian civil war. It advances the argument that dur...
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| description | Building on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the Syrian civil war. It advances the argument that during peoples’ fragmented journeys to seek safety and protection within and outside of Syria, which are often punctuated by stops and starts, they encounter one or more of three kinds of bordering practices—hardening of borders, expansion of borders, and pushbacks—that can injure them and violate international human rights and often the principle of non-refoulement. The article refers to these encounters as the “border harms of human displacement”. The analysis emphasizes the experiences of people on the move and the cruelties and spatial violence they endure. The latter include lengthy periods of walking and running, travel across hazardous lands and seas, family separation, state restrictions, and mistreatment by border authorities. Yet, in response to such difficulties, they continue to assert their agency by negotiating bordering practices and harsh landscapes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ae14eeb3e9ea4294bfa81ca17df5178e2023-11-21T13:21:36ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602021-03-0110412310.3390/socsci10040123The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights ViolationsSuzan Ilcan0Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadaBuilding on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the Syrian civil war. It advances the argument that during peoples’ fragmented journeys to seek safety and protection within and outside of Syria, which are often punctuated by stops and starts, they encounter one or more of three kinds of bordering practices—hardening of borders, expansion of borders, and pushbacks—that can injure them and violate international human rights and often the principle of non-refoulement. The article refers to these encounters as the “border harms of human displacement”. The analysis emphasizes the experiences of people on the move and the cruelties and spatial violence they endure. The latter include lengthy periods of walking and running, travel across hazardous lands and seas, family separation, state restrictions, and mistreatment by border authorities. Yet, in response to such difficulties, they continue to assert their agency by negotiating bordering practices and harsh landscapes.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/4/123human displacementhuman rightsborder harmspatial violencemigrant journeysSyrian civil conflict |
| spellingShingle | Suzan Ilcan The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations Social Sciences human displacement human rights border harm spatial violence migrant journeys Syrian civil conflict |
| title | The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations |
| title_full | The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations |
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| title_short | The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations |
| title_sort | border harms of human displacement harsh landscapes and human rights violations |
| topic | human displacement human rights border harm spatial violence migrant journeys Syrian civil conflict |
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