Abstract
This research aims to analyse the process which led to the establishment of the Italian/Libyan partnership on migration. It will assess the process of adoption and harmonization of restrictive asylum and migration policies of European Union (EU) member states as well as examine how the responsibility for assessing and managing asylum cases can be externalized to countries at the EU external borders and to non- EU countries. In the absence of a formal migration regime, Northern states have the power to choose those partners satisfying their interests and to transmit their policies to Southern states. Libyan cooperation on migration with Italy will be analysed in this context. Within this main aim there are three objectives:
Explore the process which led to the rise of what can be defined ‘Fortress Europe’;
Explore inter-state relations within the refugee and migration regimes;
Assess to what extent the Dublin System and the Safe Third Country notion influenced the establishment of the Italian/Libyan cooperation on migration.
Part one will explore the process which led to the creation of what can be called Fortress Europe: attention will be paid to the securitization of European borders and the implementation and harmonization of restrictive migration and asylum policies. Part two will analyse inter-state power unbalance within the refugee and migration regimes and the way stronger states can impose their guidelines on weaker ones. Part three will argue that the Dublin System and the concept of Safe Third Country are among the instruments used by the EU/ North Western EU states to delegate the responsibility for migration and asylum management to states at the EU external borders as well as the reason for its externalization through bilateral agreements with third countries. Part four will provide an outline of the findings and of the research method employed.
Key Words: Dublin System, Safe Third Country, Italy, Libya, securitization, migration governance, externalization, non- refoulement.
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This essay was published as part of the eBook Diversity and Turbulences in Contemporary Global Migration resulting from the 7th Global Conference on Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship held in Prague in March 2012.
How to cite this essay:
Sabrina Tucci (2013) From Securitization to Externalization: A Journey Through the Italian/Libyan Partnership on Migration, in Diversity and Turbulences in Contemporary Global Migration, edited by Walthrust Jones and Vemuri, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-84888-187-7.
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