Essays about: "border violence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words border violence.

  1. 1. Violence, Resistance and the Border Regime: Shedding Light on the Reality at the Patras Settlement : Daily Struggles of People on the Move Through the Eyes of Volunteers

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Alexia Rebeyrolle; [2023]
    Keywords : Migration; Patras; Greece; Legal Limbo; Borderscape; Refugee camp; Volunteering; Borders; Violence;

    Abstract : The securitisation and externalisation of Europe's borders have had devastating consequences for people trying to cross them. As Greece is on the periphery of the European Union, its role in this process and in the journey of people on the move is crucial. READ MORE

  3. 2. Racialization and masculinities in a violent border regime: The case study of the 2022 Melilla fence jump through a translocational lens

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Alba Planchart Valencia; [2023]
    Keywords : Melilla; border violence; racialization; masculinities; coloniality of borders; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : On June 24th 2022, nearly two thousand people attempted to cross the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries. Scholars have suggested that these border crossings in the Mediterranean highlight the systemic border violence that is exercised towards migrants in the region to prevent presenting them as isolated or sporadic. READ MORE

  4. 3. Violence at the border: Exploring portrayals of violence in news articles reporting the border conflicts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Susanna Mäkelä; [2023]
    Keywords : Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; border conflict; slow violence; news media;

    Abstract : Using Nixon’s (2011) conceptualisation of slow violence, this study explores how violence is portrayed in English-language news articles reporting the Kyrgyz-Tajik border conflicts in April 2021 and September 2022. This study aims to discover the ways in which violence is communicated to English-speaking audiences, and, in a larger context, it contributes to the understanding of violence produced in border conflicts. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Humanitarian Border – A Paradox? : A Conceptual Analysis of Ambiguities and Contradictions in the Border Regime of the European Union

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Gina Linnert; [2023]
    Keywords : Mediterranean Sea; European Union; Humanitarian Border; Humanitarian Borderwork; Borders; Mobility; Conceptual Analysis;

    Abstract : People have been migrating across the Mediterranean Sea between Africa and Europe for thousands of years. Since the 1990s, the Mediterranean has often been the only route for people to reach the EU due to the tightening of the EU border regime. READ MORE

  6. 5. Self-Selection and Wage Consequences among Undocumented Central American Migrants in the United States - The Case of Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, and Salvadorian Migrants

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Beyhan Vurgun; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; NACARA; Nicaragua; Guatemala; El Salvador; United States; Self-Selection; Wages; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : After the U.S. intervention, civil wars, and growing violence during the late 20th century, migration from the Central American countries to the U.S. READ MORE