Bordering Europe: The securitization of Europe’s migration and development policies

Debates in Conflict & Development 2020

This years’ Debates in Conflict & Development interrogates the securitization of migration and development. Development and humanitarian aid have become more and more aligned with the EU’s and its member states’ migration and security concerns and border governance has literally become ‘big business’. Growing evidence points at the detrimental effects of the EU’s efforts to reinforce and externalize its borders: an increasing number of people need to seek recourse to illegal and dangerous migration routes, migrants and refugees are contained in overcrowded hotspots on the Greek islands, authoritarian (non-)state armed actors in both home and transit countries are strengthened, and the intra-African economic migration and mobility of people is at risk. This years’ Debates will engage with these challenges, through a series of international guest lectures by leading academics in this field.

The lecture series is organized at the Ghent University, by the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, in collaboration with CESSMIR, and is an internationalisation@home activity of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. For more information: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

Overview lectures

Friday 21/02: Humanitarian Borderwork and Unequal Mobility
Dr. Polly Pallister-Wilkins (University of Amsterdam)
Academieraadzaal (Volderstraat 9), 10:00-11:30

Thursday 27/02, ‘No Go World’: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics
Dr. Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford), followed by a panel with Ludo De Brabander (Vrede) and Mark Akkerman (Stop Wapenhandel)
Filmplateau (Paddenhoek 3), 19:30-21:30

Friday 28/02, Borders as markets: How fighting migration became big business
Dr. Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford)
Academieraadzaal, 9:30-10:30.

Friday 28/02, Activist-humanitarian interventions in the Mediterranean border zone
Dr. Maurice Stierl (Warwick University)
Academieraadzaal, 13:30-15:00

Tuesday 10/03, The migration-development nexus in the EU’s international development policies
Drs. Nathan Lauwers (Ghent University)
Filmplateau, 11:30-13:00

Friday 13/03, Between a rock and a hard place: on implementation gaps and surpluses in the execution of deportation policies
Dr. Barak Kalir (University of Amsterdam)
Academieraadzaal, 10:00-11:30

Tuesday 17/03, Donor influence in the West African migration governance – to the benefit of whom?
Leonie Jegen, Affiliated Researcher at the IES, VUB and the ABI, University of Freiburg
Filmplateau, 11:30-13:00

vrijdag, 21 februari, 2020 - 10:00 tot dinsdag, 17 maart, 2020 - 11:30

Bron: https://www.mo.be/bordering-europe-securitization-europe-s-migration-and-development-policies?utm_campaign=emo&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=email