The Bosnian War and Refugee Policy

Crisis Management and Migration Control

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3756489
AutoresClara Lecadet (0000-0002-8551-1621, Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen69
Número6
Páginas754-770
Fecha de publicación2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642231182631
OpenAlexW4382068073
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

Based on research in the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) archives in Geneva, this article aims to reflect, through an examination of UNHCR's huge operation during the Bosnian war, on the major role played by the crisis paradigm in conflict management and related population movements, and on the construction and conceptualization over time of long-term forms of migration management. It analyses how the notion of "preventive protection" which emerges in the early 1990s illustrates a shift in the asylum regime, which concerns altogether the categories of its beneficiaries, the spaces, and the very nature of its application. The focus on humanitarian operations taking place as close as possible to the areas from which refugees are coming is at the origin of new patterns of emergency management which intend to contain and eventually hinder massive refugee flows and migration. This new approach of refugees flow was experimented during the Bosnian war; the UNHCR reflected on this experience and its learnings to build up long-term strategies for managing migration in a context of increased States' hostility to the permanent welcoming of refugees. The continuity between wartime and peacetime for experimenting and enforcing new modes of migration management is emphasized, in order to show that the importance of the crisis paradigm symbolized by open conflicts and wars is thereafter used as a tool to manage migration flows in ordinary times

Bosnian · Conceptualization · Context (archaeology) · Development economics · Displaced person · Economic growth · Economics · Forced migration · Geography · Internally displaced person · Peacetime · Political economy · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security