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Making Family while Seeking Asylum. Renegotiating Kinship and Gender against European Asylum Regimes, Berlin, Germany, 23 - 24 April 2026, (Unpublished)
Abstract
Continental Europe is trying to limit irregular
movements from geographies struggling to survive under the violence of
conflicts, instability and socio-economic crises. Countries on transit routes
that are significantly affected by these movements, particularly the European
Union countries, are also developing mechanisms to prevent migration. On the
other hand, realising that migration cannot be completely prevented, states are
changing their asylum and refugee procedures and transferring responsibility to
other regions. The Dublin Regulation, which is implemented in response to this
policy, stands at the point of preventing irregular migrants from seeking
asylum elsewhere.
In fact, migrants have to follow different strategies
in their daily lives against this practice which encourages immobility and
transfers the responsibility to the first country of entry on the transit
route. They prefer riskier routes in order to avoid fingerprinting in the first
country of entry, when they are detected in these countries, they can follow
various methods in order not to give their fingerprints, when fingerprints are
taken, they wait for the information to be deleted from the system and try to
cope with the fear of deportation when they arrive in other countries.
This study will analyse young, male Afghans who reach
France irregularly and despite being exposed to the Dublin Regulation, they
determine counter-strategies in their daily life practices. In particular,
those who try to complete their journey by using migrant networks related to
kinship such as cousins, uncles, brothers during their irregular mobility and
who determine daily life strategies through these networks in the destination
city will be discussed.
Key Words: Dublin Regulation, Europe, Irregular Migration,
Urban Spaces, Strategies