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The Travels and Transformations of ‘Vulnerability’: From an Ethical and Analytical Concept to a Legal and Bureaucratic Label
Leboeuf, Luc
2024In IMISCOE Research Series
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Keywords :
Ethics of care; EU asylum and migration law; EU new pact; Humanitarianism; Refugee law; Travelling concepts; Vulnerability theories; Sociology and Political Science; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Political Science and International Relations
Abstract :
[en] This chapter unpacks the implied meanings of the concept of ‘vulnerability’, and how they evolve depending on the conceptual frameworks in which ‘vulnerability’ is used and mobilised. It tracks down and confronts the various functions that ‘vulnerability’ has received in the academic literature and in EU asylum law, in view of identifying its conceptual transformations as it travels across the ethical, heuristic, and legal and bureaucratic frameworks. Based on that analysis, the chapter warns against the ‘humanitarianism trap’, that is, developing ‘vulnerability’ as a tool for asylum and migration governance while adopting an excessively emotional and moralised outlook on migration movements, which essentialises migrants seeking protection as passive victims, fails to build on their coping and resistance strategies, and ultimately loses track of their rights.
Disciplines :
European & international law
Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Leboeuf, Luc  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Cité ; Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Language :
English
Title :
The Travels and Transformations of ‘Vulnerability’: From an Ethical and Analytical Concept to a Legal and Bureaucratic Label
Publication date :
2024
Main work title :
IMISCOE Research Series
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ISBN/EAN :
978-3-03-169808-8
978-3-03-169807-1
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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