The EU’s Problem with Migration: A critical policy analysis and mobility justice
(2023) SGEM08 20231Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- Access to mobility and migration have become highly charged topics. Since the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 the EU has developed a holistic approach to control migration. The 2015 European Agenda on Migration is a policy which has significantly shaped mobility governance since being implemented. However, this response has been heavily criticised. The aim of this thesis is to understand how the EU contributes to uneven mobility access and reveal the ways in which knowledges and subjects are both relied on and produced through policies. The research takes a normative position to challenge the harmful effects of migration policy and to identify possible alternative solutions which provide more social and spatial justice. The empirical... (More)
- Access to mobility and migration have become highly charged topics. Since the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 the EU has developed a holistic approach to control migration. The 2015 European Agenda on Migration is a policy which has significantly shaped mobility governance since being implemented. However, this response has been heavily criticised. The aim of this thesis is to understand how the EU contributes to uneven mobility access and reveal the ways in which knowledges and subjects are both relied on and produced through policies. The research takes a normative position to challenge the harmful effects of migration policy and to identify possible alternative solutions which provide more social and spatial justice. The empirical contribution is a qualitative analysis of EU migration policies using the post-structuralist method named ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR). The analysis takes a multidisciplinary approach but draws mostly from critical geography and the mobilities paradigm. The broad concept of mobility justice is used to interpret the findings and offer alternative policy solutions. The concept seeks to develop more just relationships to mobility in the context of global mobility regimes, climate change, and colonial legacies. The analysis showed that EU policy remained silence regarding climate refugees and asylum procedures for climate induced displacement. It sensationalised the mass migration threat and relinquished responsibility from any relational role in the production of migration. A good/bad migrant binary is produced, this hierarchy is formed in relation to a paradigm of suspicion. Lastly, legality is framed by the migrant’s relationship to the economy. (Less)
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- author
- Penman, David LU
- supervisor
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- Till Koglin LU
- organization
- course
- SGEM08 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- mobility justice, migration, WPR, policy analysis, EU, relational space
- language
- English
- id
- 9117598
- date added to LUP
- 2023-05-30 13:47:17
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abstract = {{Access to mobility and migration have become highly charged topics. Since the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 the EU has developed a holistic approach to control migration. The 2015 European Agenda on Migration is a policy which has significantly shaped mobility governance since being implemented. However, this response has been heavily criticised. The aim of this thesis is to understand how the EU contributes to uneven mobility access and reveal the ways in which knowledges and subjects are both relied on and produced through policies. The research takes a normative position to challenge the harmful effects of migration policy and to identify possible alternative solutions which provide more social and spatial justice. The empirical contribution is a qualitative analysis of EU migration policies using the post-structuralist method named ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR). The analysis takes a multidisciplinary approach but draws mostly from critical geography and the mobilities paradigm. The broad concept of mobility justice is used to interpret the findings and offer alternative policy solutions. The concept seeks to develop more just relationships to mobility in the context of global mobility regimes, climate change, and colonial legacies. The analysis showed that EU policy remained silence regarding climate refugees and asylum procedures for climate induced displacement. It sensationalised the mass migration threat and relinquished responsibility from any relational role in the production of migration. A good/bad migrant binary is produced, this hierarchy is formed in relation to a paradigm of suspicion. Lastly, legality is framed by the migrant’s relationship to the economy.}},
author = {{Penman, David}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The EU’s Problem with Migration: A critical policy analysis and mobility justice}},
year = {{2023}},
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