31,546 research outputs found
Security, industry and migration in European border control
No full textDen udlændingepolitiske debat rider dansk politik som en mare, skriver migrationsforskeren Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, men ansvaret ligger ikke kun hos de politikere, der løber med på demagogien. Medierne er elefanten i rummet, der i årevis har kridtet banen op for normaliseringen af racisme og halv- og helfascistoide standpunkter: I jagten på clicks, konflikt og profit er alle meninger blevet lige gyldige
Controversial EU deportation programme subjected to academic scrutiny
No full textOn 3 May 2013, the Refugee Studies Centre hosted a workshop in Oxford, co-convened by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (University of Copenhagen) and Dawn Chatty (RSC), to shed light on the little-publicised European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM
Hypocrasy. Refugee rights are under pressure
No full textIn an analysis for Politiken, Dr. Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Assistant Professor at AMIS, highlights how several NGO-reports have detailed practices of push backs of migrants, some of which are intercepted by masked commandos in the Aegean Sea, others who claim to have been beaten and pushed back at the Turkish-Bulgarian border. He also discusses the failure of the EUBAM mission in Tripoli, which, among other things, seem to target migrants-at-large, including labour migrants, who have no intention of migrating onwards to Europe
Paul Colliers model for inklusion og beskyttelse er hverken nytænkende eller progressiv
Full text linkUdviklingsøkonomen Paul Collier har været på besøg i Danmark og er blevet rost af en række danske politikere, der er glade for hans budskab om, at man kan hjælpe flygtninge ved at oprette særlige økonomiske zoner udenfor Europa, hvor de flygtende kan bo og arbejde. Collier er populær blandt nationalistiske og neoliberale europæiske regeringer – og danske Mette Frederiksen har også vist sin interesse. Men de særlige zoner har meget lidt at gøre med beskyttelse af fordrevne mennesker. Til gengæld er modellen tæt forbundet med en postkolonial fortsættelse af Europas tradition for at skabe vækst gennem udnyttelsen af befolkninger fra ikke-vestlige lande, skriver Martin Lemberg-Pedersen og Mathias Søgaard
Experts Roundtable:Exploring Climate Change, Human Rights & Forced Displacement
No full textHosted by: Law Dept, Aalborg University (AAU) & Global Refugee Studies, Dep. of Culture and Global Studies, AAU Chair: Ass. Prof. Sandra Cassotta (Associate Professor, IEEL, Aalborg Univ /Adj Prof., Western Sydney Univ, Lead Author at the IPCC – International Panel of Climate Change), Co-chair: Ass. Prof. Jesper Lindholm (Associate Professor, Public International Law, Human Rights & Asylum, Aalborg Univ) Speakers: Lecturer Annalisa Savaresi (Lecturer in Environmental Law, Co-Director, LLM/MSc Environmental Policy & Governance, Stirling University); Assist.Prof Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (Assist. Professor, Global Refugee Studies, AAU) & Ms. Melina Riemer (Researcher, University of Münste
Mapping Deportation Corridors - Case Study of Public-Private Interaction and Industries of Forced Removal in Hamburg, Germany
No full textIn 2017, a total of 23.966 people were deported from Germany to 115 different countries around the globe. The map on the title page shows these “destinations” of forced removal. This case study presents and analyzes some significant changes in the German deportation system that occurred from 2012-2017 and the role of private actors in this context. Deportations connect different physical, legal, and political spaces and places and involve a wide range of actors, outside the ‘inner circle’ of state officials and people who are subject to forced removal. The role of private actors involved in the deportation system has received little or no attention in academic literature thus far. To address this gap, the author explores changes in the deportation corridors (Drotbohm & Hasselberg 2015) that connect the city-state of Hamburg, Germany with destinations of forced removal from the perspective of a participant observer. What role do private actors play in this highly politicized field? Who profits financially from the state-sanctioned practice of deportation? What does the privatization of parts of the deportation system entail in terms of transparency and democracy? This paper addresses these and other questions based on the thesis that deportation is becoming a business in and of itself. This study found that private actors play a significant role in the marketization, humanitarianization, and digitization of parts of the German deportation system. Seeking “innovative concepts” and “solutions” to problems related to deportation, public actors helped create markets in which private firms are competing. The city of Hamburg, the German Federal Government, and the EU mobilized financial resources, aiming at creating more effective deportation systems. These financial flows connect public actors with management consultancies (delivering “expert”-knowledge), software companies, (delivering surveillance technology), and development companies and NGOs, who both play the role of humanitarian actors in emerging transnational return networks. Some of the transformation processes are related to the deterioration of the quality of asylum procedures and the intensification of the deportation policy in Hamburg and Germany respectively. At the same time, this transformation is related to the enhancement of the status of Appeals Courts, and to new counter strategies employed by deportees and activists who challenge the deportation regime
Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe:AMIS Seminar Report
No full textThis report is the result of a collaborative effort based on the seminar convened at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies ́ (AMIS), the University of Copenhagen on Friday February 26th, 2021, entitled Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe: A research-based discussion.The starting-point for the seminar was the ambition to shine a research-based, multidisciplinary and critical discussion on the Danish government’s legislative proposal to externalize Danish asylum processing and refugee responsibilities away from Danish territory, and through this, to inspire and impact the ongoing legislative hearing process. The seminar gathered four researchers, Ahlam Chemlali, Zachary Whyte, Nikolas Feith Tan and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, who through their individual research were well positioned to engage with the proposal based on their in-depth knowledge of Danish and international asylum and migration policy. Scientifically, their backgrounds span the disciplines of sociology and political economy, ethnography and anthropology, law and international relations. In the seminar and now in this AMIS report, the presentations engaged with the proposal through discussions of the evolution of externalization in Danish and international contexts, of the intertwined dynamics of externalization, control and smuggling, with European-North African relations, of Danish asylum and integration policies involving camps, and of the international legal regimes concerning transnational asylum and border control. Each of these presentations has subsequently been converted into stand-alone, but complementary, written interventions designed to inform the public and political debate following the proposal. I would like to express my gratitude to the speakers, the participating audience, the AMIS team, and Marie Sandberg, director of AMIS, for hosting the event
UNHCR's Biometric Registration in Ugandan Refugee Settlements A Critical Assessment of Biometric Registration for Refugees Seeking Protection in Uganda
No full textForeign labour exploitation in the agricultural sector of the Province of Foggia - Structural dynamics
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