Brief description:

The dissertation employs Foucauldian analytical tools to explore the multiple and contested ways through which asylum seekers are governed through reception in diverse contexts in the EU. Combining the analytical perspective of governmentality with a regime analysis which resembles those proposed by critical migration studies, the thesis aims to identify features and functioning of a possible EU government of asylum seekers, which is defined as EU reception regime. Through a rich empirical study primarily based on semi-structured interviews with a range of different actors in several contexts in Italy and Sweden, three key modes of operation of the EU reception regime are identified: logistics, differentiation, and failure. These three modes of governing asylum seekers, it is argued, attribute to the EU reception regime three specific qualities by transforming it into a reception industry, a reception roulette, and a reception dispositif.

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Keywords: Asylum Seekers, Common European Asylum System, Dublin System, Harmonisation, reception conditions, secondary movements

Home University:

University of Warwick

Faculty:

Department of Politics and International Studies

Supervisor: Vicki Squire and Stuart Elden

Added to catalogue on: 15-01-2019

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