Producing the ‘transit’ migration state: international security intervention in Niger
Producing the ‘transit’ migration state: international security intervention in Niger
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产生“过境”移民国家：尼日尔的国际安全干预
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
Philippe M. Frowd
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作者：
Philippe M. Frowd
尽管人们对过境移徙和沿着移徙路线的边境管制越来越感兴趣，但对"过境"这一类别本身的生产和运作的研究相对较少。本文探讨了尼日尔如何成为一个移民"过境"国，以及这种分类对针对该国的安全和发展干预措施产生了哪些影响。从过境移民的治理和“移民国家”的文献建设，本文理论过境作为一个政治标签。它认为，尼日尔作为过境国的地位是通过一个"多语言"的过程，涉及话语和国际和当地行为者的日常假设。本文将这种共识定位于官方文本、日常惯例和次国家外交实践中。它继续认为，这些框架，尽管不同的理由，有明显的影响，在尼日尔的安全干预的演变。这些挑战包括边界安全地点的变化、移民与其他跨国威胁的混淆以及新的国内体制做法的产生。本文有助于理论化的政治建设和过境的特殊性，并提供了一个新的情况下，围绕移民治理的国家间关系的研究议程。
Abstract Despite a growing interest in transit migration and border controls along migration routes, there is relatively little work on the production and operation of the category of ‘transit’ itself. This article investigates how Niger emerges as a country of migration ‘transit’ and what impacts this categorisation has had on security and development interventions targeting the country. Building from the literature on the governance of transit migration and on the ‘migration state’, this article theorises transit as a political label. It argues that Niger’s status as a transit country is constructed through a ‘polyvocal’ process involving the discourse and everyday assumptions of international and local actors. The article locates this shared understanding in official texts, everyday routines, and sub-state diplomatic practices. It goes on to argue that these framings, despite divergent rationales, have effects visible in the evolution of security intervention in Niger. These include shifts in the location of border security, the blurring of migration into other transnational threats, and the creation of new domestic institutional practices. The article contributes to theorising the political construction and specificity of transit-ness and provides a fresh case for the research agenda on inter-state relations around migration governance.