Review article
Development of migration management portfolio in Western Balkans region
Dijana Vukomanović
; Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade
Abstract
By applying a neo-institutional approach hybridized with Foucauldian concept of `governmentality` this analysis is mapping architecture of major institutional, legal and security models of migration management designed and developed by three Western Balkans countries – Serbia, North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, during 2015/2016 and in the aftermath of massive migratory inflow from Middle East to Western Europe via Balkan route. Analysis identifies multiple national and international stakeholders involved in implementation of migration management policies: national governmental and parliamentary bodies, civil society organizations, UNHCR, EU agencies, OSCE field missions. The analysis reveals that the process of development of portfolio of migration management in Western Balkans was technocratically harmonized with the EU acquis and politicized –predominantly conceptualized and funded by the EU as the issue of securitization. `Europeanisation` and securitization of Western Balkans migration management policies was outcome of the rational choice politics, as expression of `governmentality` of Balkan decision-makers. Use of innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as biometric technology, which is already employed in key areas of digital migration management is also analysed as very potential, but disputed tool.
Keywords
migration management; governmentality; securitization; Western Balkans; Eurodac
Hrčak ID:
272213
URI
Publication date:
9.2.2022.
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