Essays about: "Humanitarian Borderwork"

Found 3 essays containing the words Humanitarian Borderwork.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Heroes, Villains & Victims : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Swedish News Media’s Representation of Frontex

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Eva Björling; [2022]
    Keywords : Frontex; Sweden; CDA; victim saviour dichotomy; humanitarian borderwork.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores in which ways the EUs border management agency Frontex was represented as a ‘humanitarian’ actor in the Swedish news media during Operation Triton 2014-2017 in the Central Mediterranean. It conducts a critical discourse analysis of Sweden’s largest newspaper Aftonbladet, using traditional and contemporary understandings of humanitarianism paired with saviour, villain, and victim narratives as a theoretical framework. READ MORE

  4. 3. Challenging the Shrinking Humanitarian Space in the European Union

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Karla Primc; [2022]
    Keywords : humanitarian space; humanitarian pyramid; humanitarian border; humanitarian borderwork; civic space; asylum paradox; securitisation;

    Abstract : The humanitarian space in the European Union is shrinking, causing unnecessary suffering and preventable deaths, or is it? Humanitarian organisations are calling on the respect of principled humanitarian aid, protection of humanitarian workers and unhindered access to the affected population namely, undocumented asylum seekers.They are blaming the prioritisation of national security interests over humanitarian concerns as well as the politicisation of aid for the shrinking humanitarian space. READ MORE