Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization.

Autor: Buehler, Matt, Fabbe, Kristin E., Kyrkopoulou, Eleni
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Zdroj: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies; Apr-Jun2024, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p371-385, 15p
Abstrakt: To stop refugees and migrants, states have enlisted neighboring third countries to act as buffers, thereby outsourcing border security. With many sub-Saharan migrants transiting North Africa, these regimes there have increasingly served as the EU's gendarme. Existing studies on the topic are state-centric, and little is known about the attitudes of citizens in buffer states. How do they view their state carrying out another's border security? Leveraging an original, nationally-representative survey, we find that 66 percent of Morocco's citizens oppose their country aiding border externalization. We advance an important initiative to "de-center" research on border externalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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