CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Krude, Maren |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Alignment and Contestation: Thematic Analysis of how Development NGOs Appropriate the EUTF's Migration-Development Agenda |
| Summary | This thesis discusses how German development NGOs align with and contest the European Union Trust Fund's hegemonic migration-development agenda in their own narratives and projects. It thereby contributes to the growing literature on de-centring migration and externalization studies, investigating the under-researched role of non-state actors. Using thematic analysis, this thesis works out forms and degrees of validity and applicatory contestation and investigates how NGOs translate these narratives into respective projects. It finds that the form of contestation (or alignment) varies between different NGOs and different themes, both in narratives and projects. And even if engaging in similar contestation forms, the respective contestation degree can vary, as NGOs engage differently with EUTF's (post)colonial underpinnings - which is also visible in corresponding projects. This thesis therefore shows that contestation is a multifaceted and nuanced process and that NGO’s appropriation of the EUTF forms a spectrum. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/krude_maren.pdf |
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