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Policing Humanitarianism

EU Policies Against Human Smuggling and their Impact on Civil Society

Valsamis Mitsilegas author Sergio Carrera author Jennifer Allsopp author Lina Vosyliute author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:24th Jan '19

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Extremely topical and timely collection looking at the EU’s response to the migrant crisis, looking at its legal, political and practical dimensions

Policing Humanitarianism examines the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affects civil society actors’ activities in the provision of humanitarian assistance, access to rights for irregular immigrants and asylum seekers. It explores the effects of EU policies, laws and agencies’ operations in anti-migrant smuggling actions and their implementation in the following EU Member States: Italy, Greece, Hungary and the UK.The book critically studies policies designed and implemented since 2015, during the so called ‘European refugee humanitarian crisis’. Building upon the existing academic literature covering the ‘criminalisation of migration ’ in the EU, the book examines the wider set of punitive, coercive or control-oriented dynamics affecting Civil Society Actors’ work and activities through the lens of the notion of ‘ policing the mobility society’. This concept seeks to provide a framework of analysis that allows for an examination of a wider set of practices, mechanisms and tools driven by a logic of policing in the context of the EU Schengen border framework: those which affect not only people, who move (qualified as third-country nationals for the purposes of EU law), but also people who mobilise in a rights-claiming capacity on behalf of and with immigrants and asylum-seekers.

Policing Humanitarianism offers solid empirical data and a comprehensive conceptualisation of policing the mobile society, including the movements of citizens and civil society actors, while considering the wider impact of the EU anti-migrant smuggling policies on civil society. -- Müge Dalkiran * Border Criminologies *

ISBN: 9781509922994

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 494g

240 pages