Engineered migration at the Greek-Turkish border: A spectacle of violence and humanitarian space

dc.authoridIsleyen, Beste/0000-0001-5634-4214
dc.contributor.authorKaradağ, Sibel
dc.contributor.authorKaradag, Sibel
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:12:30Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:12:30Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.department-temp[Isleyen, Beste] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; [Karadag, Sibel] Kadir Has Univ, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Isleyen, Beste] Univ Amsterdam, POB 15578, NL-1018WV Amsterdam, Netherlandsen_US
dc.description.abstractIn February 2020, Turkey announced that the country would no longer prevent refugees and migrants from crossing into the European Union. The announcement resulted in mass human mobility heading to the Turkish border city of Edirne. Relying on freshly collected data through interviews and field visits, this article argues that the 2020 events were part of a state-led execution of 'engineered migration' through a constellation of actors, technologies and practices. Turkey's performative act of engineered migration created a spectacle in ways that differ from the spectacle's usual materialization at the EU's external borders. By breaking from its earlier role as a partner, the Turkish state engaged in a countermove fundamentally altering the dyadic process through which the spectacle routinely materializes at EU external borders around the hypervisibilization of migrant illegality. Reconceptualizing the spectacle through engineered migration, the article identifies two complementary acts by Turkish actors: the spectacularization of European (Greek) violence and the creation of a humanitarian space to showcase Turkey as the 'benevolent' actor. The article also discusses how the sort of hypervisibility achieved through the spectacle has displaced violence from its points of emergence and creation and becomes the routinized form of border security in Turkey.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFirst and foremost, we would like to thank our respondents, who were extremely generous and open in sharing their first-hand knowledge and experience in the field. These include NGO and grassroot organization employees, mukhtars and villagers living in Edi; Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFirst and foremost, we would like to thank our respondents, who were extremely generous and open in sharing their first-hand knowledge and experience in the field. These include NGO and grassroot organization employees, mukhtars and villagers living in Edirne. This article could not have been written without their invaluable contribution. We are also grateful to the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) for a Seed Grant in 2020, which financed data collection for this study. We also thank Dr Doruk Tatar for his significant support throughout our fieldwork.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09670106231194911en_US
dc.identifier.issn0967-0106
dc.identifier.issn1460-3640
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85171784175en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/09670106231194911
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5461
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001072986600001en_US
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dc.khas20231019-WoSen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofSecurity Dialogueen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectMigrant IllegalityEn_Us
dc.subjectEngineered migrationen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceEn_Us
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectmigration controlen_US
dc.subjectMigrant Illegality
dc.subjectspectacleen_US
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleEngineered migration at the Greek-Turkish border: A spectacle of violence and humanitarian spaceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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