Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders

Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance

Petra Danková, Robel Afeworki Abay, Nikos Xypolytas, Tanja Kleibl, Robel Abay

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9798216337676
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Theoretical Engagements and Historical Contexts
• Chapter 1: The Role of Social Work in Context of Displacement and Forced Migration: A Critical Analysis
• Chapter 2: Socialist Yugoslavia and Circuits of Decolonial Affinity: Social Policy, Migration, and the Non-Aligned Movement
• Chapter 3: Depoliticizing Refugees: How a Western World’s Favorite Intellectual and Political Game Takes Place and Its Alterna ives
• Chapter 4: Who Is Responsible for Whom in the Age of Globalization?: An Analysis of the Normative Dimension of the Problematization of Migration of Brazilian Women
• Part II: Entanglements of Social Work and Externalization of EU Migration Regimes
• Chapter 5: Working Categories: Categorization Dilemmas at the Intersection of Social Work and Mobility in Nigeria
• Chapter 6: Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration in The Gambia: Aid Workers and Returnees as Implementers and Contesters of Humanitarian Borderwork
• Chapter 7: Social Work and the Challenge of Promoting Human Rights: Reflections on the Situation of Migrants and Refugees in the Western Mediterranean and West African Routes
• Part III: Covid-19, Migration Management, and Social Work
• Chapter 8: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Migrants’ Integration Paths in Italy
• Chapter 9: Social Work in a Berlin Shelter for Mobile People during the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Crisis for Professionalism?
• Chapter 10: Overview on the Human Rights of International Migrants in Mexico during the “Fourth Transformation”: The Case of Puebla
• Part IV: Resistance and Collective Action
• Chapter 11: A Critical View of Humanitarian Aid in the Context of the Refugee Camp on Lesvos and Possibilities of a Liberating Practice
• Chapter 12: Human Rights Overboard: Shrinking Spaces for Civil Sea Rescue in the Central Mediterranean Sea
• Chapter 13: Exploration of Refugee Resistance in the Light of Asymmetrical Power Relations: Examples of Refugee Resistance in Europe
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors