CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Cerkez, Toni |
|---|---|
| Title | Crisis? What Crisis? EU, Migration And Neo-Liberal Humanitarianism |
| Summary | Studying migration management in EU from a structural point of view is beneficial for our understanding of how EU frames, reasons, and understands migration as a phenomenon. Due to the lack of stronger reform push and consensus in EU regarding migration, it is forced to externalize its migration efforts onto its neighborhood (both to the East and to the South). However, the way it does so is characteristic of what we call neo-liberal humanitarianism. This is a structured frame of thought that through developmental action seeks to develop the areas of emigration (e.g. Libya) in order to create resilient local communities for the purpose of stemming migration while at the same time employing a humanitarian interventionist reasoning in order to legitimize growing intrusions into non-EUrope by framing the process in terms of saving lives and developing communities. This Foucault-inspired analysis does not criticize EU per se, rather it seeks to understand how the structured reasoning of neo-liberal humanitarianism ignores contradictions created by its implementation that range from increasing reports on migrant abuse to questions of the effectiveness of developmental aid. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/cerkez_toni.pdf |
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