Border policies

Wie gelingt internationale Verantwortungsteilung? Asyl- und Klimapolitik im Vergleich

02.09.2021 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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Menschen auf der Flucht haben Anspruch auf humanitären Schutz in einem sicheren Land – doch welches Land soll dafür zuständig sein? In der Praxis sind bisherige Bemühungen gescheitert, verbindliche Regelungen zur gemeinsamen Verantwortungsteilung in der Asylpolitik zu etablieren. Ein Vergleich mit der internationalen Klimapolitik zeigt, wie ein wirksamer Rahmen aussehen ...

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Making Responsibility-Sharing Operational: Comparing Asylum and Climate Governance

31.08.2021 , in ((Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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International law demands that refugees obtain humanitarian protection in a safe country. However, which country should be responsible for which refugee remains a contested and unresolved question of international asylum governance – in particular in the event of refugee emergencies. Sharing the common responsibility of humanitarian protection is motivated by ...

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Informality and Transnational (Im)Mobilities in Europe – Introduction

08.04.2021 , in ((Mobility + Informality)) , ((No Comments))
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People worldwide rely on informal practices to resist, survive, care, and relate to each other beyond the control and coercive presence of states and formal institutions. This blog series introduces a recently published special issue of Migration Letters that ethnographically explores how mobilities and informality are entangled in responding to ...

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A Sudden Bankruptcy of Mobility Capital? The Paradoxical Effects of Pandemics on Human Movement

17.03.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Politics, Practices)) , ((No Comments))
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Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and within countries. Among these measures were suppression of flights, closure of borders, banning of international student exchanges, halting of public transportation, lock-down of entire cities, freezing ...

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