Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the structuring role of race in the politics and practice of refugee deterrence
A vast body of research has traced and critiqued state practices described as refugee deterrence or non-entrée mechanisms, directed at people seeking asylum with Global North states’ territory. Legal scholarship addressing refugee deterrence has engaged with the lawfulness, political motivations and...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2024
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Handbook on border criminology
Año: 2024, Páginas: 138-154 |
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| Sumario: | A vast body of research has traced and critiqued state practices described as refugee deterrence or non-entrée mechanisms, directed at people seeking asylum with Global North states’ territory. Legal scholarship addressing refugee deterrence has engaged with the lawfulness, political motivations and rhetoric that shape such policies, as well as their increasingly punitive nature. However, in analysing precisely who is the target of deterrence policies and on what basis, much research on deterrence has been characterised by what E. Tendayi Achiume has described as international refugee law scholarship’s ‘racial aphasia’. That is, as Achiume describes it, an inability to theorise the significance of race and racism, or refugee law’s role in mediating racial equality. Following Achiume’s argument about racial aphasia, this chapter argues there has been a blindness to race, racism and colonial forms of sovereignty in refugee legal scholarship’s engagement with deterrence policies and practice. The circular claim that Global North deterrence mechanisms target unlawful non-citizens because they are unlawful non-citizens exemplifies a form of racial aphasia as to whom these policies affect and the centrality of race in the governance of the border. The second part of the chapter examines the Global North’s response to people displaced and seeking safety following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The explicitly racialized nature of the reception of displaced Ukrainians reveals it is past time that refugee law scholarship engages more closely with race and racism in the operation of contemporary refugee policy and deterrence practice. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 149-154 |
| ISBN: | 9781035307975 |
