The European Border Regime: People Smuggling and the Paradox of the Criminalization of Solidarity

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https://doi.org/10.3986/dd.2021.1.06

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The article discusses people smuggling within the European border regime, namely, the right to asylum, the demonization of smugglers, and the paradox of the criminalization of solidarity. As a commercial, illegal service, people smuggling can be seen as the opposite of solidarity with people on the move. Anti-smuggling laws blur their differences since the material benefit of helping people on the move does not qualify as criminal activity. The author presents the embeddedness of the smuggling-
solidarity antagonism within the context of violent borders and state persecution. She concludes that solidarity practices are protests against, whereas smuggling is the effect of violent borders.

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Jelka Zorn, Faculty of social work, University of Ljubljana

Dr. sociologije-socialnega dela v skupnosti, izredna profesorica, Fakulteta za socialno delo Univerze v Ljubljani, Topniška ulica 31, SI-1000 Ljubljana; jelka.zorn@fsd.uni-lj.si, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-7596 — Članek je nastal v okviru projekta »Evropski režim iregulariziranih migraciji na periferiji EU: Od etnografije do pojmovnika« (Hrvatska zaklada za znanost, IP-2019-04-6642) in raziskovalnega projekta »Socialno delo kot nosilec procesov družbenega vključevanja in socialne pravičnosti v Sloveniji« (ARRS, P5-0058). — Za dragocene komentarje se zahvaljujem Uršuli Lipovec Čebron, Eli Meh, Maji Ivačič in Asji Hrvatin. Za možnost intervjujev z obsojenimi in s socialnim delavcem se zahvaljujem Upravi RS za izvrševanje kazenskih sankcij.

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Published

2021-01-24

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Zorn, J. (2021). The European Border Regime: People Smuggling and the Paradox of the Criminalization of Solidarity. Two Homelands, 2021(53). https://doi.org/10.3986/dd.2021.1.06

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No. 53 (2021)

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