Governing European borderlands: Austerity, migrant (im)mobility and the politics of aid in crisis-ridden Greece

治理欧洲边境：危机四伏的希腊的紧缩政策、移民流动性和援助政治

• 批准号: ES/X007065/1
• 负责人: Danai Avgeri
• 金额: $ 13.89万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX007065%2F1
• 关键词: Governing; European; borderlands; Austerity; migrant

As the devastating consequences of the war in Ukraine, Taliban's sweeping advance over Afghanistan and the ongoing climate crisis show, the trend of uninterrupted rise in forced displacement and migration is unlikely to change any time soon. Within this context, my research presents a fundamentally important and timely exploration of how borders transform amidst global crises and turbulent transnational mobilities. More specifically, it focuses on these processes as they took shape in Greece, a premier space of migrant transit and neoliberal restructuring in Europe over the last decades. My PhD research explored this topic by seeking to address the following questions: Which spatial, temporal, and legal tactics were deployed for regaining control over migrant mobilities in the aftermath of 'the European refugee crisis' and what is their historical and socio-political legacy? What modes of governance did the synergies and tensions between governmental, non-governmental and EU agencies operating in European borderlands produce and legitimise? How was the 'refugee crisis' operationalised to provide 'solutions' to the 'Greek sovereign debt crisis' and conversely, how did the latter condition the 'solutions' devised to tackle the 'refugee crisis'? In addressing these questions, my PhD offers a novel and nuanced understanding of how a 'refugee' and an 'economic crisis' co-constituted Europe's border spaces. Going a step further, it highlights how attempts to offset operational deficiencies through humanitarian aid and inter-governmental cooperation became instrumental in reshaping crisis-ridden spaces and futures beyond the scope of a 'refugee emergency'. My PhD forges a new approach to borders and migration combining socio-legal analysis, political geography, critical geopolitics, and ethnographies of state and of NGO practices to unravel how borders are produced and how, in turn, they produce space, time and identities. Drawing from a rich material of sixty interviews with aid workers, border guards, camp managers, government officials, ethnographic observations in EU hotspots, police headquarters and humanitarian spaces, critical analysis of maps, statistics, and policies, this research foregrounds an incisive and interdisciplinary analysis about the complex role of borders in our contemporary world. It further presents a significant contribution for migrant rights organisations, trade unions, and policy makers seeking to tackle human rights violations and the consequences of austerity politics on both migrants and locals.The ESRC fellowship will support my long-term aspiration to become a public-facing academic by enabling me to disseminate the findings of my PhD research and maximise its impact on diverse audiences. With the expert mentorship of Professor Alex Jeffrey, the Fellowship will allow me, in particular, to: 1. Establish a track record and disseminate PhD research findings through three high-quality publications in leading journals; 2. Establish my research within the discipline and develop academic networks towards creating opportunities for future collaboration, through organising and participating in academic events and forging research networks;3. Disseminate PhD research findings to policy stakeholders and non-academic audiences for broader social impact; 4. 4. Develop my future research career by using the fellowship time and proposed activities to finalise a book proposal, securing a book contract by the end of the fellowship, and submit postdoctoral research funding applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Research schemes.

乌克兰战争造成的毁灭性后果、塔利班对阿富汗的大举进攻以及持续的气候危机都表明，被迫流离失所和移民不断增加的趋势不太可能很快改变。在此背景下，我的研究对边界如何在全球危机和动荡的跨国流动中转变进行了极其重要且及时的探索。更具体地说，它重点关注希腊形成的这些进程，希腊是过去几十年欧洲移民过境和新自由主义重组的首要空间。我的博士研究通过寻求解决以下问题来探索这个主题：在“欧洲难民危机”之后，采取了哪些空间、时间和法律策略来重新控制移民流动，以及它们的历史和社会政治遗产是什么？在欧洲边境地区运作的政府、非政府和欧盟机构之间的协同作用和紧张关系产生了哪些治理模式并使其合法化？ “难民危机”如何运作，为“希腊主权债务危机”提供“解决方案”？反过来，后者如何为解决“难民危机”制定“解决方案”？在解决这些问题时，我的博士学位对“难民”和“经济危机”如何共同构成欧洲边境空间提供了新颖而细致的理解。更进一步，它强调了通过人道主义援助和政府间合作来弥补行动缺陷的尝试如何有助于重塑“难民紧急情况”范围之外的危机四伏的空间和未来。我的博士学位提出了一种研究边界和移民的新方法，结合了社会法律分析、政治地理学、批判地缘政治以及国家和非政府组织实践的民族志，以揭示边界是如何产生的，以及边界是如何产生空间、时间和身份的。这项研究取材于对援助人员、边防人员、难民营管理人员、政府官员的 60 次访谈、对欧盟热点地区、警察总部和人道主义空间的民族志观察、对地图、统计数据和政策的批判性分析等丰富材料，提出了深入和跨学科的研究分析边界在当代世界中的复杂作用。它进一步为寻求解决侵犯人权行为以及紧缩政治对移民和当地人造成的后果的移民权利组织、工会和政策制定者做出了重大贡献。ESRC 奖学金将支持我成为一名公共事务官员的长期愿望。通过使我能够传播我的博士研究成果并最大限度地提高其对不同受众的影响来面对学术。在 Alex Jeffrey 教授的专家指导下，该奖学金将使我能够： 1. 通过在领先期刊上发表三篇高质量出版物，建立跟踪记录并传播博士研究成果； 2. 通过组织和参与学术活动以及建立研究网络，在学科内建立我的研究并发展学术网络，为未来的合作创造机会；3.向政策利益相关者和非学术受众传播博士研究成果，以产生更广泛的社会影响； 4. 4. 利用奖学金时间和拟议的活动来完成图书提案，在奖学金结束时获得图书合同，并向 Leverhulme 早期职业奖学金和英国科学院博士后提交博士后研究资助申请，以发展我未来的研究生涯奖学金研究计划。