På turkiska fronten intet nytt
(2022) STVK03 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This paper builds upon the work by Kelly Greenhill in Weapons of Mass Migration (2010). Greenhill's theory on coercive engineered migration (CEM) focuses on the instrumentalisation of cross-border population movements with strategic political and/or economic goals. She argues that despite it being critically under-studied, there have been surprisingly many CEM attempts. The context of the study is the migration crisis of 2015, where the EU was faced with a relatively sudden and big influx of migrants mainly from war-torn Syria. It analyses the process leading up to the EU-Turkey deal of 2016, where political agitation and capacity swamping were identified as key mechanisms used by the Turkish government. This case study aims to investigate... (More)
- This paper builds upon the work by Kelly Greenhill in Weapons of Mass Migration (2010). Greenhill's theory on coercive engineered migration (CEM) focuses on the instrumentalisation of cross-border population movements with strategic political and/or economic goals. She argues that despite it being critically under-studied, there have been surprisingly many CEM attempts. The context of the study is the migration crisis of 2015, where the EU was faced with a relatively sudden and big influx of migrants mainly from war-torn Syria. It analyses the process leading up to the EU-Turkey deal of 2016, where political agitation and capacity swamping were identified as key mechanisms used by the Turkish government. This case study aims to investigate the explanatory power of the theory focusing on the case of Turkey-EU during the refugee crisis of 2015-2016. Without being able to generalise, the results in the paper show that the mechanisms were present in the given case, which in turn speaks to the validity of the theory. (Less)
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- author
- Schäfer, Johan Fredrik LU
- supervisor
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- John Åberg LU
- organization
- course
- STVK03 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- migranter/flyktingar, CEM, tvång, EU-Turkiet, capacity swamping, political agitation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9080296
- date added to LUP
- 2022-07-03 08:45:06
- date last changed
- 2022-07-03 08:45:06
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