Postma, Lisanne (2023) The European Migration Crisis: A theoretical discussion of responsibility for structural injustices evident within the European migration crisis from a political science, political theory, and legal perspective. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Increased political instabilities in the Middle East and North Africa have led to an increase in the influx of refugees trying to enter and seek asylum in Europe. In trying to overcome this, European states have actively sought to prevent asylum seekers from accessing their territory through the establishment of “Fortress Europe” policies. This bachelor thesis discusses the responsibilities of European states and individual European citizens with regard to the European migration crisis in the context of border control policies and their impact on refugee treatment and the structural injustices pertaining to it. I will first elaborate on structural injustices, the social connection model of responsibility, and the liability model of responsibility as defined by Iris Marion Young (2006). Subsequently, I will develop an understanding of the relationship between structural injustices and the Global North/ South divide and how this plays out in migration processes. Subsequently, I will elaborate on the concept of populism and its influences on the European migration crisis, typically concerning populism’s demands for the exclusion of migrants within a single nation-state to preserve national identity. I will argue that the European migration crisis constitutes a deliberate structural injustice for which European states are responsible in the form of a liability. Additionally, I will argue that this structural injustice is perpetuated by populism for which European citizens have a political responsibility to address this injustice in line with the social connection model of responsibility.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | McKeown, M.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 09:39 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/259 |
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