Abolishing asylum and violating the human rights of refugees. Why is it tolerated?

Bender, Felix

doi:10.4324/9780429279317-5

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“…However, this crisis existed before the intensified migration in 2014 and already had a strong hold on societies beforehand. Therefore, I would argue that it impacted the humanitarian crisis from the start, where we saw, for example, the Hungarian Fidesz regime come down with utmost brutality on the refugees (Bender, 2020). This type of border control, something Europeans had not seen since the 1990's, will also play a role in the next section on the geopolitical crisis.…”

Section: Political Crisismentioning

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The role of ideations in de-problematizing migration crises (and other wicked problems)

Klasche

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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This article examines the role of ideations in the de-problematization process of the governance of “migration crises”. Ideations, for example, in the form of frames often simplify social reality and do not allow us to understand the nature of a problem policy-makers are dealing with. To show this, I use the example of the “European Migrant Crisis,” to illustrate that it is, in fact, a wicked problem. The “wicked problem” concept describes a complex and contingent problem and, in essence, a set of “un-owned” processes. It further dissolves local and global distinctions and forces to connect micro and macro processes at all times. In this article, I show that this “migration crisis” (and also many others) consists of much more than just a humanitarian or security crisis but is also constituted by geopolitical crises and crises of political institutions. A relational approach seems most pertinent to be able to grasp all these aspects and helps us to stop de-problematizing it and instead problematize it adequately. It also advocates for the circumvention of ideations as they are a main source for the de-problematization of wicked problems.

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Section: Political Crisismentioning

confidence: 96%

The role of ideations in de-problematizing migration crises (and other wicked problems)

Klasche

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…These states employ a wide arsenal of methods to limit the mobility of would-be refugees. These are not only physical, such as erecting razor wire fences and watchtowers and establishing police forces trained to hunt refugees (the Hungarian police force deployed at its borders is aptly and unabashedly called "border hunters") (Bender 2020a). Borders are also controlled and maintained through a network of legal fences, allowing states to push refugees back to the countries from which they have entered, or deport them altogether to third countries (Augustova, Farrand-Carrapico, and Obradovic-Wochnik 2023;Bender 2020a;Giuffré 2012).…”

Section: Thinking Morally About Political Questions: the Duty Of Rescuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are not only physical, such as erecting razor wire fences and watchtowers and establishing police forces trained to hunt refugees (the Hungarian police force deployed at its borders is aptly and unabashedly called "border hunters") (Bender 2020a). Borders are also controlled and maintained through a network of legal fences, allowing states to push refugees back to the countries from which they have entered, or deport them altogether to third countries (Augustova, Farrand-Carrapico, and Obradovic-Wochnik 2023;Bender 2020a;Giuffré 2012). This gives rise to the possibility of outsourcing border control, creating a legal regime in which border management does not happen at the border, but both within and far beyond the borders of sovereigntyimposing states (Shachar 2007;Shachar et al 2020).…”

Section: Thinking Morally About Political Questions: the Duty Of Rescuementioning

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Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Bender

2024

Perspect. polit.

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Refugees drown, are beaten, and are pushed back at the borders of the states of the Global North. Moral outrage is understandable in the face of such treatment. But does it constitute a good political theory? Can morality supply us with good normative arguments for a political world? In this article, I argue that they cannot. Drawing on political realism, I show why moral arguments for admitting refugees fail. What we require is not the extrapolation of moral arguments onto a political world, but a new form of political normativity that is derived from how politics works. I show that refugeehood possesses a specific political function in international politics. States do not admit refugees based on humanitarian reasons. This is what moral arguments get wrong. Rather, they fulfill the political function of condemning and embarrassing other states, of building oppositional and military forces to undermine rival political systems both ideologically and materially. In other words, they play an important political role—a role that allows us to build normative arguments from within a political and not a moral understanding of the world.

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“…The Hungarian government started building a double fence at its border with Serbia, displaying a symbolic image of "fortress Europe" (Korte 2020). New transit zones at the border held asylum seekers until refoulement, and a multitude of new laws included criminalizing refugees' border crossings (Bender 2020). Other barriers were assembled at Macedonia's border with Greece, Slovenia's with Croatia, and Austria's with Slovenia.…”

Section: The Hardening Of Borders: "There Was So Much Fear"mentioning

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The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations

Ilcan

2021

Social Sciences

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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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Abolishing asylum and violating the human rights of refugees. Why is it tolerated?

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The role of ideations in de-problematizing migration crises (and other wicked problems)

The role of ideations in de-problematizing migration crises (and other wicked problems)

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations

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