Seeking protection at the gates of Europe: refugees, labeling and dissuasion practices at the southern Spanish borders
Based on an analysis on the practices that have become generalized over the past few decades to limit refugees from entering the territory through what has been dominated the dissuasion paradigm, this article uses the literature on labeling to research how asylum has been managed at Spain’s southern...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Fronterizos |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.localhost:article/848 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/848 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Refugees labeling dissuasion paradigm border migration control Spain Demography Population Sociology Social and public welfare Refugee problems Emigration and international migration Europe Africa International law Foreign relations International organization and associations Boundaries Political non-governmental organizations, NGOs United Nations Refugiados etiquetado paradigma disuasorio frontera control migratorio España Demografía Población Sociología seguridad social y pública Problemas de los refugiados Emigración y migración internacional Europa África Derecho internacional Relaciones exteriores Organizaciones y asociaciones internacionales Fronteras Organizaciones no gubernamentales políticas, ONG Naciones Unidas |
| Sumario: | Based on an analysis on the practices that have become generalized over the past few decades to limit refugees from entering the territory through what has been dominated the dissuasion paradigm, this article uses the literature on labeling to research how asylum has been managed at Spain’s southern border over the past three decades. The analysis is based in 34 in-depth interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 in Madrid, Cádiz, Ceuta and Melilla to members of different public institutions and social organizations involved in the implementation of refugee policies at the Southern Spanish border. The “labeling” of African immigrants as labor migrants (or as “bogus” asylum seekers) has shaped the refugee policies at this border resulting in practices of contention and dissuasion of the flows and restrictions in the access to the Spanish protection system under the priority of the logic of control. |
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