Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance

Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance
by: Petra Danková University of Applied Sci (Editor, Contributor), Robel Afeworki Abay Humboldt University of Be(Editor, Contributor),Nikos Xypolytas University of the Aegean (Editor), Tanja Kleibl University of Applied Sci(Editor, Contributor),Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa(Contributor),Theresa Becker(Contributor), Viola Castellano (Contributor), Roberta T. Di Rosa (Contributor), Sergio Barciela Fernández (Contributor), Norbert Frieters-Reermann (Contributor), Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano (Contributor), Eva Maria Greber (Contributor), Alexandra Kattein (Contributor), Diana Marciele Kerber (Contributor), Michalis Psimitis (Contributor), Nikos Xypolytas (Contributor), Jessica Washburn (Contributor),Paul Stubbs (Contributor)&17more
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: 2024/2/2
Language: English
Print Length: 314 pages
ISBN-10: 1666935875
ISBN-13: 9781666935875
Book Description
Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance addresses the topics of social work and international migration, with specific focus on the consequences of EU border externalization policies. The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that is heavily charged, both ideologically and politically. After theoretically and historically contextualizing externalization with explicit attention to (neo)colonial genealogies of the current migration regimes, this book examines the complex inter-relations of social workers with key actors, namely mobile people, policy makers or funders. Particular attention is paid to the socio-economic and political impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic on social work with variously categorized people moving across borders or immobilized incamps. Finally, the book explores how social workers and refugees resist violent migration controls and increasing criminalization of cross-border movements. This volume brings together contributions located in the so-called countries of origin and transit targeted by EU externalization interventions, as well as EU countries, in which social workers deal with the effects of border externalization and internalization.
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Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance addresses the topics of social work and international migration, with specific focus on the consequences of EU border externalization policies. The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that is heavily charged, both ideologically and politically. After theoretically and historically contextualizing externalization with explicit attention to (neo)colonial genealogies of the current migration regimes, this book examines the complex inter-relations of social workers with key actors, namely mobile people, policy makers or funders. Particular attention is paid to the socio-economic and political impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic on social work with variously categorized people moving across borders or immobilized incamps. Finally, the book explores how social workers and refugees resist violent migration controls and increasing criminalization of cross-border movements. This volume brings together contributions located in the so-called countries of origin and transit targeted by EU externalization interventions, as well as EU countries, in which social workers deal with the effects of border externalization and internalization. Read more