Governing European borderlands: Austerity, migrant (im)mobility and the politics of aid in crisis-ridden Greece

治理欧洲边境：危机四伏的希腊的紧缩政策、移民流动性和援助政治

• 批准号: ES/X007065/1
• 负责人: Danai Avgeri
• 金额: $ 13.89万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX007065%2F1
• 关键词: Governing; European; borderlands; Austerity; migrant

As the devastating consequences of the war in Ukraine, Taliban's sweeping advance over Afghanistan and the ongoing climate crisis show, the trend of uninterrupted rise in forced displacement and migration is unlikely to change any time soon. Within this context, my research presents a fundamentally important and timely exploration of how borders transform amidst global crises and turbulent transnational mobilities. More specifically, it focuses on these processes as they took shape in Greece, a premier space of migrant transit and neoliberal restructuring in Europe over the last decades. My PhD research explored this topic by seeking to address the following questions: Which spatial, temporal, and legal tactics were deployed for regaining control over migrant mobilities in the aftermath of 'the European refugee crisis' and what is their historical and socio-political legacy? What modes of governance did the synergies and tensions between governmental, non-governmental and EU agencies operating in European borderlands produce and legitimise? How was the 'refugee crisis' operationalised to provide 'solutions' to the 'Greek sovereign debt crisis' and conversely, how did the latter condition the 'solutions' devised to tackle the 'refugee crisis'? In addressing these questions, my PhD offers a novel and nuanced understanding of how a 'refugee' and an 'economic crisis' co-constituted Europe's border spaces. Going a step further, it highlights how attempts to offset operational deficiencies through humanitarian aid and inter-governmental cooperation became instrumental in reshaping crisis-ridden spaces and futures beyond the scope of a 'refugee emergency'. My PhD forges a new approach to borders and migration combining socio-legal analysis, political geography, critical geopolitics, and ethnographies of state and of NGO practices to unravel how borders are produced and how, in turn, they produce space, time and identities. Drawing from a rich material of sixty interviews with aid workers, border guards, camp managers, government officials, ethnographic observations in EU hotspots, police headquarters and humanitarian spaces, critical analysis of maps, statistics, and policies, this research foregrounds an incisive and interdisciplinary analysis about the complex role of borders in our contemporary world. It further presents a significant contribution for migrant rights organisations, trade unions, and policy makers seeking to tackle human rights violations and the consequences of austerity politics on both migrants and locals.The ESRC fellowship will support my long-term aspiration to become a public-facing academic by enabling me to disseminate the findings of my PhD research and maximise its impact on diverse audiences. With the expert mentorship of Professor Alex Jeffrey, the Fellowship will allow me, in particular, to: 1. Establish a track record and disseminate PhD research findings through three high-quality publications in leading journals; 2. Establish my research within the discipline and develop academic networks towards creating opportunities for future collaboration, through organising and participating in academic events and forging research networks;3. Disseminate PhD research findings to policy stakeholders and non-academic audiences for broader social impact; 4. 4. Develop my future research career by using the fellowship time and proposed activities to finalise a book proposal, securing a book contract by the end of the fellowship, and submit postdoctoral research funding applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Research schemes.

正如乌克兰战争的破坏性后果、塔利班在阿富汗的全面推进以及持续的气候危机所表明的那样，被迫流离失所和移徙不间断上升的趋势不太可能在短期内改变。在这种情况下，我的研究提出了一个根本重要的和及时的探索边界如何在全球危机和动荡的跨国流动中转变。更具体地说，它侧重于这些过程，因为它们在希腊形成，在过去几十年里，欧洲移民过境和新自由主义重组的首要空间。我的博士研究探讨了这个话题，试图解决以下问题：哪些空间，时间和法律的策略被部署在“欧洲难民危机”之后重新控制移民流动性，以及他们的历史和社会政治遗产是什么？在欧洲边境地区运作的政府、非政府和欧盟机构之间的协同作用和紧张关系产生了什么样的治理模式并使之合法化？“难民危机”是如何运作的，以提供“解决方案”的“希腊主权债务危机”，反过来说，后者是如何条件的“解决方案”设计，以解决“难民危机”？在解决这些问题，我的博士学位提供了一个新的和微妙的理解如何“难民”和“经济危机”共同构成欧洲的边界空间。更进一步，它强调了通过人道主义援助和政府间合作来弥补业务缺陷的努力如何在重塑危机重重的空间和未来方面发挥作用，超越了“难民紧急情况”的范围。我的博士锻造边界和移民结合社会法律分析，政治地理学，关键地缘政治学，国家和非政府组织的做法民族志的新方法，以解开边界是如何产生的，以及如何，反过来，他们产生空间，时间和身份。从60个采访援助工作者，边防人员，营地管理人员，政府官员，在欧盟热点，警察总部和人道主义空间，地图，统计数据和政策的批判性分析人种学观察丰富的材料绘制，这项研究突出了一个精辟的和跨学科的分析边界在我们当代世界的复杂作用。它进一步为移民权利组织，工会和政策制定者提供了重要的贡献，这些组织寻求解决侵犯人权的问题以及紧缩政策对移民和当地人的影响。ESRC奖学金将支持我成为一名面向公众的学者的长期愿望，使我能够传播我的博士研究成果，并最大限度地提高其对不同受众的影响。在Alex Jeffrey教授的专家指导下，该奖学金将使我能够：1。通过在领先期刊上发表三篇高质量的论文，建立跟踪记录并传播博士研究成果; 2.通过组织和参与学术活动和建立研究网络，在学科内建立我的研究，并发展学术网络，为未来的合作创造机会;3.向政策利益相关者和非学术受众传播博士研究成果，以产生更广泛的社会影响; 4. 4.通过使用奖学金时间和拟议的活动来完成一本书的建议，在奖学金结束时获得图书合同，并向Leverhulme早期职业奖学金和英国科学院博士后奖学金研究计划提交博士后研究资助申请，以发展我未来的研究事业。