In defiance of the reception logic: The case for including NGOs as human rights monitors in the EU’s policies of first reception of irregular migrants
| Autor: | Daniela DeBono |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Policy making
Refugee media_common.quotation_subject Control (management) 0507 social and economic geography Social integration Political science 050602 political science & public administration Human rights media_common.cataloged_instance European Union European union Migration media_common Refugees Malta Human migration business.industry Asylum-seekers 05 social sciences Irregular migration Detention 0506 political science NGOs Border regime Political economy Political Science and International Relations First reception business 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 24:291-295 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7949 1078-1919 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pac0000297 |
| Popis: | The first reception system for irregular migrants taking the Mediterranean route into the European Union (EU) is dictated almost solely by border control and security concerns. There is no recognition of the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as human rights monitors in first reception, and access is limited, controlled, and dependent on local authorities. Newly arriving migrants are at their most vulnerable during first reception. Traumatization and retraumatization brought by violations of human rights, or alternatively, care and welcome within the first reception system will pave the way for subsequent integration processes, by ensuring migrants' well-being, decreasing hostility, diffidence and subjugation, and peaceful relations with European host communities. By critically assessing the current system, backed by the author's long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the links between policy, practice, and mental health consequences for migrants. It shows that there are multiple risks of human rights violations of a vulnerable group of people. The article is critical of the absence of an official role for NGOs(1) as human rights monitors arguing that NGOs have a unique role to play. The article suggests that the dignified conduction of first reception could have a positive influence on integration processes, and concludes that first reception should not be designed within a security framework but within a reception one. Swedish Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) European Commission |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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