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På turkiska fronten intet nytt

Schäfer, Johan Fredrik LU (2022) STVK03 20221
Department 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
organization
course
STVK03 20221
year
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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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Schäfer, Johan Fredrik}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{På turkiska fronten intet nytt}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}