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Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection

In line with the policies fighting irregular migration to Europe, the asylum procedure in Niger was recently reinforced as a complementary mechanism of protection and fixation, with support from the European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The article investigate...

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Autor principal:	Lambert, Laura
Formato:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:	Anglais
Publicado:	Anthropologie & développement 2020
Acceso en línea:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:anthropodev_976 https://doi.org/10.4000/anthropodev.976 urn:doi:10.4000/anthropodev.976 en https://journals.openedition.org/anthropodev/976 2020-12-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9tzk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection Anthropologie & développement Presses universitaires de Louvain info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2553-1719 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2276-2019 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropodev Lambert, Laura In line with the policies fighting irregular migration to Europe, the asylum procedure in Niger was recently reinforced as a complementary mechanism of protection and fixation, with support from the European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The article investigates from an ethnographic perspective what some of these reconfigurations meant to the affected bureaucrats in the National Eligibility Commission (CNE) and relevant asylum institutions and how they coped with these changes. Based on the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) and the Sudanese in Agadez as two recent and politicized southbound refugee movements from Libya, I argue that the Nigerien bureaucrats experienced a reduced discretionary power in the asylum adjudication and in the question of who enters and remains in the country, due mostly to a power shift up to its government and the UNHCR, but also down to local interests and norms in Agadez. As a reaction to their reduced discretion or practical decision-making power, some voiced criticism or searched for creative solutions. Others slowed down the asylum procedures in order to reconcile the local anti-refugee stance and global refugee protection norms. Dans la ligne des politiques de lutte contre la migration irrégulière vers l’Europe, la procédure d’asile au Niger était récemment renforcée avec le soutien de l’Union européenne et du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) pour établir un mécanisme de protection complémentaire au contrôle de la migration. L’article examine, à partir d’une approche ethnographique de la bureaucratie, ce que certaines des reconfigurations de l’asile au Niger signifiaient pour les agents au niveau de la Commission nationale d’éligibilité (CNE) en charge des procédures de l’asile et de la gestion des réfugiés et comment ils y faisaient face. À partir de l’analyse du mécanisme de transit d’urgence (ETM) et des Soudanais à Agadez, en ce qu’ils constituent deux mouvements de réfugiés récents et politisés en provenance de la Libye, je soutiens que les bureaucrates nigériens connaissaient un amenuisement de leur pouvoir discrétionnaire dans l’octroi du statut de réfugié et dans la gestion de l’entrée et du séjour sur le territoire, principalement en raison d’une emprise croissante du gouvernement nigérien et du HCR, mais aussi au profit des normes et des intérêts locaux à Agadez. En réaction à cet empiètement sur leur pouvoir décisionnaire, quelques agents émettaient des critiques et cherchaient des solutions créatives. D’autres adoptaient une stratégie dilatoire pour tenter de concilier la posture locale anti-réfugiés et les normes globales en faveur de la protection des réfugiés.
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description	In line with the policies fighting irregular migration to Europe, the asylum procedure in Niger was recently reinforced as a complementary mechanism of protection and fixation, with support from the European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The article investigates from an ethnographic perspective what some of these reconfigurations meant to the affected bureaucrats in the National Eligibility Commission (CNE) and relevant asylum institutions and how they coped with these changes. Based on the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) and the Sudanese in Agadez as two recent and politicized southbound refugee movements from Libya, I argue that the Nigerien bureaucrats experienced a reduced discretionary power in the asylum adjudication and in the question of who enters and remains in the country, due mostly to a power shift up to its government and the UNHCR, but also down to local interests and norms in Agadez. As a reaction to their reduced discretion or practical decision-making power, some voiced criticism or searched for creative solutions. Others slowed down the asylum procedures in order to reconcile the local anti-refugee stance and global refugee protection norms.
author	Lambert, Laura
spellingShingle	Lambert, Laura Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
author_facet	Lambert, Laura
author_sort	Lambert, Laura
title	Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
title_short	Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
title_full	Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
title_fullStr	Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
title_full_unstemmed	Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
title_sort	who is doing asylum in niger? state bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection
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Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection

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