Externalization at Work: Responses to Migration Policies from the Global South

Commemorating the deadly other side of externalized borders through “migrant-martyrs”, sacrifices and politizations of (irregular) migration on the international migrants' day in Mali

This article explores the different memorial strategies of the civil society associations and the public authorities in Mali through various practices and discourses of the International Migrant Day around the...

Authors: Almamy Sylla and Susanne U. Schultz

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:4

Content type: Original Article Published on: 22 January 2020
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Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South

The term “externalization” is used by a range of migration scholars, policy makers and the media to describe the extension of border and migration controls beyond the so-called ‘migrant receiving nations’ in t...

Authors: Inka Stock, Ayşen Üstübici and Susanne U. Schultz

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:48

Content type: Editorial Published on: 17 December 2019
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The impact of externalized migration governance on Turkey: technocratic migration governance and the production of differentiated legal status

The article highlights international dimensions of the emergence and transformation of migration policies in Turkey from the early 2000s onwards, including the context of the Syrian displacement, which made Tu...

Authors: Ayşen Üstübici

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:46

Content type: Original Article Published on: 11 December 2019
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Contested externalisation: responses to global inequalities

What is new about contemporary remote control across borders? An important element is the reference to human rights norms by various political actors such as NGOs, migrant associations but also national govern...

Authors: Thomas Faist

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:45

Content type: Editorial Published on: 2 December 2019
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The relational dimension of externalizing border control: selective visa policies in migration and border diplomacy

The paper traces the crucial role of visa policies in externalizing border control. Since the European Union has agreed upon a highly selective visa policy in 2001, most neighbouring countries are (newly) conf...

Authors: Lena Laube

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:29

Content type: Original Article Published on: 23 July 2019
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Es cosa suya: entanglements of border externalization and African transit migration in northern Costa Rica

Starting from the idea that border externalization – understood as the spatial and institutional stretching of borders – is enmeshed with the highly contextual humanitarian and securitarian dynamics of migrant...

Authors: Nanneke Winters and Cynthia Mora Izaguirre

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:27

Content type: Original Article Published on: 28 June 2019
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From controlling mobilities to control over women’s bodies: gendered effects of EU border externalization in Morocco

Taking the perspective of the Central and West African women blocked at the Moroccan-Spanish border, reveals how EU policies, in exporting their anti-migrant war to African countries, seem to have reinforced a...

Authors: Elsa Tyszler

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:25

Content type: Original Article Published on: 18 June 2019
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Extraterritoriality of European borders to Turkey: an implementation perspective of counteractive strategies

This article seeks to “decolonize” the externalization project of European borders by focusing on the subjectivity of Turkey as being a long-standing candidate country, seeking to be a “regional power” in the ...

Authors: Sibel Karadağ

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:12

Content type: Original Article Published on: 18 April 2019
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New contested borderlands: Senegalese migrants en route to Argentina

This article sheds novel, light on how Senegalese men and women adapt to European border governance by finding new ways to ‘look for life’ (chercher la vie) in Latin America, as an alternative to the perilous ...

Authors: Ida Marie Savio Vammen

Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:8

Content type: Original Article Published on: 22 March 2019
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