Violations of human rights in the east of Europe: A geo-political analysis of the 2021 debacle at the Belarusian-EU external border
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2025-06-20
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In this research contemporary geopolitics regarding the politics of territoriality; the politics of the instrumentalization of migration; the politics of border externalization; domopolitics; and the politics over the mortality of people are central. It examines what led to the Belarusian migration crisis, and how the Belarusian/Middle East migration corridor came into existence. This is done through the civilianized character of modern conflicts, leading to a first dimension of ‘death worlds’ of necropolitics for citizens of the Middle East. Furthermore, it is argued that the securitization from migration embodied by border externalization violates human rights and reproduces power exertion over racialized others along external EU borders, creating the second dimension of ‘death worlds’. It is through this outsourcing and hardening of borders, that new migration corridors open elsewhere. Finally, in this thesis the method of hybrid warfare by Belarus is examined and the EU member states’ response to this. Through disregarding international law and human rights declarations, migrants were pushed back over the Belarusian border, creating a division between those that are welcomed inside the house of domopolitics and those that are not. It is outside this border, serving as a filtering membrane, that domopolitics turns into necropolitics, at the Belarusian/EU border.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen