Saturday, March 15, 2014
Forum (Omni Shoreham)
Recent research on social inclusion and exclusion across Europe has focused on the consequences of the resurrection and dispersion of nationalism, and particularly of far-right mobilization within each country as well as for European identity (Umland 2002, Fligstein and Polyakova 2012). Studies on the impacts of the diffusion of exclusionary outcomes remain largely confined internally to EU borders. For example, studies on cross-national diffusion of far-right parties investigates their competing causes such as master frames and opportunity structures (Rydgern 2005). Few scholars have looked at exclusionary impacts of migration policies beyond the country level. There is also a growing literature on the subnational rescaling of migration policy in the U.S. (Versanyi 2010), but supra-national rescaling or diffusion of migration policies remains understudied (FitzGerald forthcoming). Research on predictors of social inclusion in post-socialist Europe has pointed to adherence to international norms and conflict over the vision of the nation (Shevel 2011). Yet, little attention has been paid to consequences of migration and security policy on the diffusion of exclusionary dynamics at Europe's borders. This paper seeks to explore these gaps, analyzing the outcomes of EU external policy towards Ukraine since 2005. Specifically, it uses semi-structured interviews with refugees and officials to analyze the impact of external EU migration, security, and refugee policy practices on the international mobility and exclusion of global refugees in post-Orange Ukraine. It concludes with an exploration of implications for the study of nationalist mobilization and international migration policy.
