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CfP Panel "Maritime irregular migration governance: trends and challenges in Europe and beyond", 2025 ECPR General Conference

Call for papers: Panel " Maritime irregular migration governance: trends and challenges in Europe and beyond ", ECPR General Conference 2025, 26 – 29 August, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Section S30: International Migration: Policies and Practices


Please submit your abstracts (no more than 250 words) as well as 3-8 keywords to Claudia Finotelli (cfinotel@cps.ucm.es) by December 22th, 2024. Please include in your proposal your email address as registered in your My ECPR account.


Maritime irregular migration is a significant challenge in most receiving regions. Even though the majority of irregular migrants are visa overstayers, maritime irregular migration has captured the attention of media and political debates in recent years, torn between security and humanitarian concerns. On the one hand, EU member states are increasingly focusing on the externalisation of borders, as the United States and Australia have been doing for many years.


Bilateral agreements, conditionality clauses, new reception and offshore processing centres in third countries, and a militarisation of the maritime domain comprise the latest externalisation strategies of both EU member states and the European Union. On the other hand, many fear that security imperatives (and measures) may eventually undermine the universal principle of refugee protection and, potentially, increase the number of irregular migrants in many destination countries. But how do receiving states address the dichotomy between security and humanitarian imperatives? What are the key measures adopted by European and non-European destination countries? What are their consequences? Consequently, it


This panel deals with irregular migration governance, broadly understood and invites articles that offer timely and innovative insights centred on, among other elements, the foreign and security policies on irregular migration, externalisation measures, migration diplomacy, refugee protection, and related policies, including regularisations. We welcome papers that approach this sensitive issue from a variety of analytical, theoretical, and methodological standpoints, with the goal of providing novel and multidisciplinary insights into one of the most momentous phenomena of the twenty-first century.


10 December 2024
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