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La "sicurezza dei confini" nelle relazioni tra Unione Europea e Azerbaigian
No full textPoche questioni hanno assunto negli ultimi anni tanta rilevanza come il concetto di border security. La “sicurezza dei confini” ha infatti progressivamente ricoperto un ruolo primario nella definizione delle strategie per la sicurezza interna di vari paesi, portando alla formazione di un curioso paradosso: a fronte del recupero del concetto di “confine” per la sicurezza di un territorio, si assiste a un radicale mutamento della natura e delle modalità di minaccia dello stesso. Non si tratta infatti di tradizionali attacchi militari, ma di sfide e rischi di tipo transazionale, in grado di oltrepassare più o meno agilmente i confini nazionali e coinvolgendo nei loro effetti numerosi territori. Crimine organizzato, terrorismo internazionale e immigrazione illegale sono alcune tra le sfide che pongono più problemi alle tradizionali capacità di controllo degli stati, sfruttando a proprio favore progressi tecnologici legati in particolar modo alla mobilità. Questo capitolo analizzerà la rilevanza della sicurezza dei confini per l’Unione europea e, seguendo l’impostazione del libro, indagherà l’importanza della tematica nelle relazioni con l’Azerbaigian
The EU, Migration and the Politics of Administrative Detention
No full textMigration is now regarded as a security issue, both in public debate and government policies. In turn, the phenomenon of detention as a governance practice has emerged, and the developing presence of camps in Europe for migrants has given rise to a tangle of new and complex issues. This book examines the phenomenon of irregular immigration, and provides a comprehensive picture of the practices and the implications of detention of migrants within and the European Union. It analyses ‘detention’ as a tool of governance and in doing so explores several key themes: the security threat for Europe the security governance processes enacted to handle irregular immigration the forms of detention in different geographical contexts the effectiveness of the EU’s approach to the issue. The EU, Migration and the Politics of Administrative Detention will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU’s external relations, migration, human rights, European politics and security studies. © 2014 Selection and editorial material Michela Ceccorulli and Nicola Labanca
The Mediterranean as a buffer. Confining irregular migrants in North Africa
No full textThe aim of this chapter is to identify how and with what effect the European Union has attempted to contain irregular migrants in North Africa countries, the main origin and transit routes to Europe
The migration dimension in EU-Libya relations
No full textThis chapter tries to uncover which priorities of justice (if any) have been advanced in the field of migration governance in the case of Libya, examining not only the period of most intense contact with the country (2016–2017) but mainly the period following this, when the EU’s initiative was either replaced or repeatedly obstructed by its own and others’ actions. Weighting the advancement of understandings of justice as non-domination, impartiality and mutual recognition allow gauging the Union’s priorities on migration governance with third countries
The EU’s Normative Ambivalence and the Migrant Crisis: (In)Actions of (In)Justice
No full textLooking at four moments of internal ‘crisis’ for the European Union, the attempt to revise the Common
European Asylum System (2016–), the EU-Turkey deal (2016), increased cooperation with Libya (2017),
and the EU’s non-contribution (from a formal point of view) to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and
Regular Migration (2016–2018) this chapter aims at uncovering how struggles between EU institutions and
Member States played a prominent role in the final ability to respond, and in the type of response provided.
At all these critical moments, the copious arrivals of migrants acted as detonators, and solicited interaction
has unleashed quite opposite behaviours: in two cases (the EU-Turkey deal and the agreement with Libya)
internal quarrels have led to the EU’s action in the direction of externalization. In the remaining cases, (the
attempt to revise the asylum system and its would-be participation in the Global Compact) frictions have
paralysed the EU. Using the categories of non-domination, impartiality and mutual recognition this chapter
also assess the normative prioritizations these interactions have yielded and their consequences. Rather
than simply following on from the values and principles it supports, the message the EU conveys to the
external world about what is just on migration and asylum largely derives from the articulation and
accommodation of its inherent and equally legitimate stakes, that is, its own preservation and the
promotion of human rights
Security governance, Copenaghen e Parigi: verso un approccio di sintesi allo studio della sicurezza
No full textAnalisi di tre scuole di pensiero sulla sicurezza e della loro compatibilita
Security and Migration: the Development of the Eastern Dimension
No full textThis article analyzes the role that fields of discourses have played in constructing
migration as a security problem, with a specific focus on the development of the
Eastern dimension. It does so by looking at three relations: sub-region/region;
speech acts/securitization; and professionals/insecuritization. Speeches and docu-
ments testify to the security narrative and consequent security governance
associated to the enlargement process and to relations with neighboring countries
to the East. Moreover, an analysis of the rationale behind governmentality
practices regarding migration accounts for the wide usage of technological and
risk assessment tools, adding up to the security construction of migration. The
overall security governance that has arisen through and out of these processes
allows an evaluation of a securitized approach to migration and the impact this
has on European Union objectives on that sub-region, such as stability and
human rights protection
'Securitizing' Migration Crises: the European Union, North Africa and Transatlantic Regional Cooperation
No full textIn line with the overall theme of the book, this chapter analyzes how the migration ‘crisis’ is impacting interregional cooperation by looking at two specific case studies of transcontinental migration. The first study analyzes the consequences that the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on migration-related policies between the European Union (EU) and its main transatlantic ally, the United States (US). In this case the ‘emergency’ permeating the security discourse has contributed to deepening and accelerating the cooperation between the two partners, although with some limits. The second case study investigates the inflow of irregular migrants and asylum seekers fleeing from North Africa into Europe, following governmental repressions against the uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring. In this second case, these events are endangering existing arrangements on migration, which were agreed upon by now ousted or contested regimes, and are also questioning the ability of the EU (and its Member States) to tackle the situation in a consistent way
Study of organic phase mobility in nanocomposite organic-inorganic coatings
No full textOrganic-inorganic hybrids synthesized by a dual photopolymerization and condensation process from (i) two organic precursors, either polyethylene glycol , diacrylate (MW = 600) (PEGDA) or bisphenol-A-ethoxylate (15EO/phenol)-dimethacrylate (BEMA), (ii) the organic-inorganic bridging monomer (methacryloyl-oxypropyl-trimethoxysilane, MEMO) and (iii) the inorganic precursor tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical spectroscopy (DMTA). It is found that progressive formation of the crosslinked network during the different steps of hybrid production results in changes of molecular mobility that show up in changes of the glass transition of the organic phase. While moving from the organic precursor to the final hybrid through the subsequent photopolymerization and condensation reactions, the transition is seen to broaden, decrease in intensity and shift to higher temperature. Excellent agreement of DSC and DMTA results is obtained. Dynamic mechanical analysis of the hybrids coated on PET film (coating thickness 10 m and 40 m) show an additional up-shift of Tg, more marked in the case of the thinner hybrid coating. This result is attributed to molecular interactions at the substrate-coating interface that locally hinder molecular mobility. The consequent increase of Tg is more evident when the coating layer is thin. The results show the potential of the DMTA technique in coating-polymer substrate adhesion studies. Finally, the relaxation spectrum of the hybrids is sensitive to humidity absorbed from the environment and reversibly changes in absorption-desorption cycle
‘REBOUND: Rethinking Borders in and by the European Union’
No full textThis project aims to reflect upon, discuss, and problematize the compounded changes in borders in the European Union through multiple angles and perspectives and with different publics
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