Policing Humanitarianism: EU Policies Against Human Smuggling and their Impact on Civil Society

✍ Scribed by Sergio Carrera; Valsamis Mitsilegas; Jennifer Allsopp; Lina Vosyliūtė

Publisher: Hart Publishing
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Policing Humanitarianism examines the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affects civil society actors’ activities in the provision of humanitarian assistance, access to rights for irregular immigrants and asylum seekers. It explores the effects of EU policies, laws and agencies’ operations in anti-migrant smuggling actions and their implementation in the following EU Member States: Italy, Greece, Hungary and the UK. The book critically studies policies designed and implemented since 2015, during the so called ‘European refugee humanitarian crisis’.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Table of Figures
Table of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
PART I: COUNTERING MIGRANT-SMUGGLING:
EU POLICIES AND ACTORS
2. Countering Migrant-Smuggling:
The EU’s Policy Approach
I. The EU Facilitators Package in Light of UN Standards
II. Assessing the Impact of the EU’s Facilitators Package on Civil Society Actors
3. The Role of EU Agencies in Countering Migrant-Smuggling
I. Europol
II. Eurojust
III. Frontex
IV. Role of EASO in Hotspots
V. Role of EU-led Military Operations – EUNAVFOR MED Sophia in Central Mediterranean
VI. A Multi-Agency Approach to Countering Migrant-Smuggling
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PART II: THE IMPACTS OF ANTI-MIGRANT-SMUGGLING POLICIES ON CIVIL SOCIETY
4. Anti-Smuggling in National Law and Perceptions among Civil Society Actors
I. Italy
II. Greece
III. Hungary
IV. UK
5. Effects of Countering Facilitation of Entry on Civil Society Actors Involved at External EU Sea and Land Borders
I. Sea Borders and Search and Rescue
II. Land Borders and Humanitarian Assistance
6. Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of the EU Hotspots Approach
I. Italy: Hotspots in Southern Sicily
II. Greece: Hotspot in Lesvos Island
7. The Effects of Countering Facilitation of Residence: Access to Services and Rights
I. Italy: Cases of Rome and Ventimiglia
II. Greece: Case of Athens and Thessaloniki
III. Hungary: Budapest and Szeged
IV. The UK: ‘Hostile Environment’ in London
PART III: CONCEPTUALISING THE EFFECTS OF EU ANTI-MIGRANT-SMUGGLING POLICIES ON CIVIL SOCIETY
8. The Three Faces of Policing the Mobility Society in the EU
9. Conclusions
I. Impacts on Civil Society Actors
II. Impact on Society as a Whole: Liberal Democracy, Refugees and the Crisis of Exclusion
Annex 1: Anonymised Lists of Interviews
Annex 2: Coding Framework for Semi-Structured Interviews
Annex 3: Mapping Key Actors Involved in Search and Rescue and Anti-Smuggling Activities in Italy
Bibliography
Index
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