nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5b660f9812c8130c DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240229s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5b660f9812c8130c doi eng 342 23 Owen, David Author aut Humanitarian Externalisation Owen, David Verfassungsblog 2024-02-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Why are the reasons given in support of the declared aim of the current asylum policies in the UK, EU and USA of breaking the business model of smugglers expressed in humanitarian terms? It is, no doubt, tempting to simply dismiss this humanitarian rhetoric as hypocrisy, as the compliment that vice pays to virtue. Yet however justified that dismissal may be in particular cases, to turn away too quickly from this phenomenon would be to miss something of political significance in its form and to fail to register the historical entanglement of humanitarianism and border externalisation. CC BY-SA 4.0 External Border Control humanitarianism Refugee Protection refugees Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/humanitarian-externalisation/ raw object