The EU Humanitarian Border and the Securitization of Human Rights: The "Rescue-Through-Interdiction/Rescue-Without-Protection' Paradigm
The EU Humanitarian Border and the Securitization of Human Rights: The "Rescue-Through-Interdiction/Rescue-Without-Protection' Paradigm
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DOI：
10.1111/jcms.12651
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Moreno-Lax, Violeta
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作者：
Moreno-Lax, Violeta
本文着眼于欧盟外部海洋边界的安全化/人道主义化动态，以跟踪和批评人权在地中海所发挥的作用的实质性转变。将海上参与的演变与难民危机联系起来，揭示了人权的援引如何自相矛盾地限制（移民）人权，为拦截（以拯救生命）辩护，并阻碍在欧洲获得安全。其结果是，船只移民被双重具体化为对边境安全的威胁和走私/贩运的受害者。通过“救援”的叙述，拦截被洗白为一种道德上可持续的边境治理战略。它不再被认为是有问题（可能致命）的控制手段，而是被重新定义为救生设备。随后出现的“拦截救援”/“无保护救援”范式改变了人权的性质，人权的性质不再是对拦截的制衡，而是最终被选为另一种安全化/人道主义化工具。
This article looks at securitization/humanitarianization dynamics in the EU external sea borders to track and critique the substantial transformation of the role played by human rights in the Mediterranean. Mapping the evolution of maritime engagement up to the refugee crisis', it is revealed how the invocation of human rights serves paradoxically to curtail (migrants') human rights, justifying interdiction (to save lives'), and impeding access to safety in Europe. The result is a double reification of boat migrants' as threats to border security and as victims of smuggling/trafficking. Through a narrative of rescue', interdiction is laundered into an ethically sustainable strategy of border governance. Instead of being considered a problematic (potentially lethal) means of control, it is re-defined into a life-saving device. The ensuing rescue-through-interdiction'/rescue-without-protection' paradigm alters the nature of human rights, which, rather than functioning as a check on interdiction, end up co-opted as another securitization/humanitarianization tool.