Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders

Petra Danková; Robel Afeworki Abay; Nikos Xypolytas; Tanja Kleibl

doi:10.5771/9781666935882

Summary

Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance addresses the topics of social work and international migration, with specific focus on the consequences of EU border externalization policies. The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that is heavily charged, both ideologically and politically. After theoretically and historically contextualizing externalization with explicit attention to (neo)colonial genealogies of the current migration regimes, this book examines the complex inter-relations of social workers with key actors, namely mobile people, policy makers or funders. Particular attention is paid to the socio-economic and political impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic on social work with variously categorized people moving across borders or immobilized incamps. Finally, the book explores how social workers and refugees resist violent migration controls and increasing criminalization of cross-border movements. This volume brings together contributions located in the so-called countries of origin and transit targeted by EU externalization interventions, as well as EU countries, in which social workers deal with the effects of border externalization and internalization.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66693-587-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3588-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 305
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. Overview Structure No access
2. Part I: Theoretical Engagements and Historical Contexts No access
3. Part II: Entanglements of Social Work and Externalization of EU Migration Regimes No access
4. Part III: Covid-19, Migration Management, and Social Work No access
5. Part IV: Resistance and Collective Action No access
6. Note No access
7. References No access
1. 1. 1. Background, Objectives, and Methodology No access
    2. Main Results No access
  2. 1. Background, Objectives, and Methodology No access
    2. Main Results No access
  3. 1. Background, Objectives, and Methodology No access
    2. Main Results No access
  4. Consequences for a Discrimination-Critical and Diversity-Sensitive Social Work No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. The Political Economy of Socialist Yugoslavia No access
  2. Non-Alignment and the Creation of New Circuits of Decolonial Affinity No access
  3. Migration and the New International Economic Order No access
  4. Oil Crises, the NIEO, and Migration No access
  5. Migration Afterlives No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Theoretical Discussion No access
  2. What Is Politics and What Is Depoliticization? No access
  3. Refugee Depoliticization as a Subjugation Strategy No access
  4. Macro-Level No access
  5. Micro-Level No access
  6. Refugee Resistance No access
  7. Theoretical Tools for Explaining Refugees’ Agency No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Theoretical Foundations No access
  2. Methodology No access
  3. An Analysis of the Normative Dimension of Problematization (of the Facts) of the Migration of Brazilian Women No access
  4. Final Considerations No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Categorization and Externalization of Migration Control No access
  2. Genealogies of Social Work in Nigeria No access
  3. Human Trafficking—Making Mobility into a Problem No access
  4. Categories That Get Funding No access
  5. Working Categories No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. 1. Colonial Legacies, Neoliberalism, and Involuntary Immobility as “Root Causes of Migration” No access
  2. What Happened to the Young Gambians Who Decided to Leave? No access
  3. The Recipients of AVRR Programs No access
  4. Contested Narratives and Counter-Narratives Around Voluntariness and Development No access
  5. 1. The Political Reading of EUTF by Local Aid Workers No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Why at the Borders? No access
  2. 1. A Brief Overview of Spain’s Migration Policy No access
  3. Building Up an Anti-Oppressive Perspective in Social Work with Migration and Asylum No access
  4. 1. Spain’s Southern Border No access
    2. 1. Case Description No access
      2. The Role of Social Workers in the Dock Crisis No access
    3. 1. Case Description No access
      2. The Role of Social Workers in the Crisis of Ceuta No access
  5. Discussion and Conclusions No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Pandemic Professional Experiences of Social Workers in the Reception System for Unaccompanied Minors: A Case Study No access
  2. 1. Personal and Relational Dimensions No access
    2. Transmission of Information No access
    3. Rethinking Ordinary Activities No access
  3. 1. Reorganization of Practices and Services No access
    2. Training Needs No access
    3. Support and Supervision No access
  4. Rediscovering Social Work as a Form of Social Resistance No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Migration Policies and the Structural Conditions of Social Work in German “Refugee Camps” No access
  2. Social Work Professionalism and the Antinomy of “Uncertainty and Duty to Action” No access
  3. Covid-19 and the Ambiguities of the New Camp Order No access
  4. Discomfort and Moral Distress No access
  5. Reflection and Change in Attitudes No access
  6. Professionalism in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic—A Movement between Automation and Autonomy No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Transit Migration in the State of Puebla No access
  2. Diasporas from Puebla: Emigration and (Forced) Return(s) No access
  3. Coronavirus and Migratory Vulnerability in Mexico No access
  4. Conclusion: Walls, Cages, Viacrucis, Caravans, and Pandemic No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. SocioPolitical Background in the Context of Forced Migration on Lesvos No access
  2. A Critical Reflection on Humanitarian Aid in the Working Field of Forced Migration No access
  3. Liberation Theories No access
  4. Self-Organization on Lesvos No access
  5. 1. Barriers to Self-Organization No access
  6. 1. Self-Agency No access
    2. Bottom-Up Approaches No access
  7. 1. Importance of the Collaboration of Different Actors in the Refugee Camp on Lesvos No access
    2. Anti-Oppressive Approach No access
    3. Learning to Critically Question One’s Own Privileges and Role No access
  8. A Concluding Call to Rethink Social Work Praxis No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Background Knowledge No access
  2. Methods No access
  3. 1. Legal Basis No access
    2. Moral No access
    3. Impact on the Death Rate No access
    4. Finance No access
    5. Crew No access
    6. Motivation No access
  4. Discussions No access
  5. Summary No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. 1. Resistance No access
    2. Resistance and Power No access
    3. Forms of Resistance No access
    4. Refugee Resistance No access
  2. 1. Levels of Power No access
    2. 1. Visible Forms of Power No access
      2. Hidden Forms of Power No access
      3. Invisible Forms of Power No access
    3. 1. Closed Spaces of Power No access
      2. Invited Spaces of Power No access
      3. Claimed/Created Spaces of Power No access
  3. Methodology of Data Collection and Data Evaluation No access
  4. 1. Research Participants’ Understanding of Resistance No access
    2. Determining Factors for Refugee Resistance No access
    3. 1. Visible Refugee Resistance No access
      2. Invisible Refugee Resistance No access
      3. Solidarity No access
  5. 1. Struggles within Refugee Resistance Practices No access
    2. Unstable Living Conditions and Victimizations of Refugees No access
    3. Unsupportive Civil Society No access
    4. Struggles with the Supporting System No access
    5. Governments’ Power Over, Criminalization, and Political Repressions No access
  6. 1. Revealing Unjust Policies and Practices No access
    2. Deconstructing Power No access
    3. Self-Empowerment and Gaining Power through Joining Forces No access
    4. Just Production of Knowledge and Achieving Objectives No access
  7. Conclusion and Implications for Social Work No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 291 - 300
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 301 - 305