Informace o kvalifikační práci The development-security nexus and its contribution to shrinking space for international protection: a review of the interaction of development policy discourse with US border externalisation in Latin America
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Hlavní téma
How has US border externalisation shaped policy thinking about migration and development in Central and South America?
Hlavní téma v angličtině
How has US border externalisation shaped policy thinking about migration and development in Central and South America?
Název dle studenta
The development-security nexus and its contribution to shrinking space for international protection: a review of the interaction of development policy discourse with US border externalisation in Latin America
Název dle studenta v angličtině
The development-security nexus and its contribution to shrinking space for international protection: a review of the interaction of development policy discourse with US border externalisation in Latin America
This study evaluates effects of the "development-security nexus", a widespread framework merging development and security policy, on international protection and migrants' human rights, via its relationship to US border externalisation in Latin America. Externalisation refers to the creation of US infrastructure controlling migration downstream, effectively pushing its border south. This process has involved militarisation, detention, and surveillance; is linked to human rights violations and unequal inter- and intrastate relations; and structural undermining of the international protection system. Meanwhile, externalisation and enforcement has been fused with aid, migrant protection, and development policy. This study aims to determine if there is a relationship between development-security discourse and the role of externalisation in shrinking the space for international protection in the US-Latin American context, with reference to years 2008-2023. Secondarily, it assesses effects of development-security discourse and externalisation on conceptions of migration governance in the state and development sector. To do so it analyses US government documents, and interviews with migration governance practitioners. Three processes are uncovered that mark the "developmentalisation" of externalisation. The first is the presentation of enforcement as a development aim. The second is a "humanitarian border governance" concept that combines security and protection, the effects of which are highly contested. The third is the presentation of migration control as a development aim. This study contends that the security-development link has thus reframed how migration policy is understood; flattening contradictions between protection and control, embedding US security interests within development thinking, and contributing to narrowing access to international protection.
Anotace v angličtině
This study evaluates effects of the "development-security nexus", a widespread framework merging development and security policy, on international protection and migrants' human rights, via its relationship to US border externalisation in Latin America. Externalisation refers to the creation of US infrastructure controlling migration downstream, effectively pushing its border south. This process has involved militarisation, detention, and surveillance; is linked to human rights violations and unequal inter- and intrastate relations; and structural undermining of the international protection system. Meanwhile, externalisation and enforcement has been fused with aid, migrant protection, and development policy. This study aims to determine if there is a relationship between development-security discourse and the role of externalisation in shrinking the space for international protection in the US-Latin American context, with reference to years 2008-2023. Secondarily, it assesses effects of development-security discourse and externalisation on conceptions of migration governance in the state and development sector. To do so it analyses US government documents, and interviews with migration governance practitioners. Three processes are uncovered that mark the "developmentalisation" of externalisation. The first is the presentation of enforcement as a development aim. The second is a "humanitarian border governance" concept that combines security and protection, the effects of which are highly contested. The third is the presentation of migration control as a development aim. This study contends that the security-development link has thus reframed how migration policy is understood; flattening contradictions between protection and control, embedding US security interests within development thinking, and contributing to narrowing access to international protection.
This study evaluates effects of the "development-security nexus", a widespread framework merging development and security policy, on international protection and migrants' human rights, via its relationship to US border externalisation in Latin America. Externalisation refers to the creation of US infrastructure controlling migration downstream, effectively pushing its border south. This process has involved militarisation, detention, and surveillance; is linked to human rights violations and unequal inter- and intrastate relations; and structural undermining of the international protection system. Meanwhile, externalisation and enforcement has been fused with aid, migrant protection, and development policy. This study aims to determine if there is a relationship between development-security discourse and the role of externalisation in shrinking the space for international protection in the US-Latin American context, with reference to years 2008-2023. Secondarily, it assesses effects of development-security discourse and externalisation on conceptions of migration governance in the state and development sector. To do so it analyses US government documents, and interviews with migration governance practitioners. Three processes are uncovered that mark the "developmentalisation" of externalisation. The first is the presentation of enforcement as a development aim. The second is a "humanitarian border governance" concept that combines security and protection, the effects of which are highly contested. The third is the presentation of migration control as a development aim. This study contends that the security-development link has thus reframed how migration policy is understood; flattening contradictions between protection and control, embedding US security interests within development thinking, and contributing to narrowing access to international protection.
Anotace v angličtině
This study evaluates effects of the "development-security nexus", a widespread framework merging development and security policy, on international protection and migrants' human rights, via its relationship to US border externalisation in Latin America. Externalisation refers to the creation of US infrastructure controlling migration downstream, effectively pushing its border south. This process has involved militarisation, detention, and surveillance; is linked to human rights violations and unequal inter- and intrastate relations; and structural undermining of the international protection system. Meanwhile, externalisation and enforcement has been fused with aid, migrant protection, and development policy. This study aims to determine if there is a relationship between development-security discourse and the role of externalisation in shrinking the space for international protection in the US-Latin American context, with reference to years 2008-2023. Secondarily, it assesses effects of development-security discourse and externalisation on conceptions of migration governance in the state and development sector. To do so it analyses US government documents, and interviews with migration governance practitioners. Three processes are uncovered that mark the "developmentalisation" of externalisation. The first is the presentation of enforcement as a development aim. The second is a "humanitarian border governance" concept that combines security and protection, the effects of which are highly contested. The third is the presentation of migration control as a development aim. This study contends that the security-development link has thus reframed how migration policy is understood; flattening contradictions between protection and control, embedding US security interests within development thinking, and contributing to narrowing access to international protection.
In recent years the US has vastly expanded its border control apparatus beyond its own physical borders, forming partnerships to control migration with countries across Central and South America. These have tied together migration control, the military and security, and development cooperation in new and wide-ranging forms.
There is a growing literature on border externalisation and its effects. However, there are significant gaps in understanding how the rise of US (and wider Global North) externalisation policy impacts development actors’ policy thinking about migration, and the practical consequences of shifting ideas. I aim to investigate the content of any recent changes in the development sector thought about migration and development as a result of US externalisation.
Zásady pro vypracování
In recent years the US has vastly expanded its border control apparatus beyond its own physical borders, forming partnerships to control migration with countries across Central and South America. These have tied together migration control, the military and security, and development cooperation in new and wide-ranging forms.
There is a growing literature on border externalisation and its effects. However, there are significant gaps in understanding how the rise of US (and wider Global North) externalisation policy impacts development actors’ policy thinking about migration, and the practical consequences of shifting ideas. I aim to investigate the content of any recent changes in the development sector thought about migration and development as a result of US externalisation.
Seznam doporučené literatury
Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South, Stock, Üstübici, Schultz (2019)
Beyond the development-security nexus, Soderbaum and Sorenses (2012)
Empire of Borders, Miller (2021)
Es cosa suya: entanglements of border externalization and African transit migration in northern Costa Rica, Winters and Izaguirre (2019)
Migration challenges and the new geopolitics of Latin America–United States relations, Grant (2018)
Seznam doporučené literatury
Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South, Stock, Üstübici, Schultz (2019)
Beyond the development-security nexus, Soderbaum and Sorenses (2012)
Empire of Borders, Miller (2021)
Es cosa suya: entanglements of border externalization and African transit migration in northern Costa Rica, Winters and Izaguirre (2019)
Migration challenges and the new geopolitics of Latin America–United States relations, Grant (2018)
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The student presents his thesis on ‘How has US border externalisation shaped policy thinking about migration and development in Central and South America?’After a brief introduction to the topic, he proceeds to discuss the aims of the study, methodology, and content (three stages of externalisation). Finally, he presents his findings and conclusions. Both reviews of the supervisor (prof. Dluhý) and reviewer (prof. Filipec) were read out, and the co-supervisor also gave his insights about the thesis. The session follows by answering to the reviews and questions from the professors and the committee.