Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders

Petra Danková is professor of International Social Work at the Technical University of AppliedSciences Würzburg–Schweinfurt.Robel Afeworki Abay is guest professor of participatory approaches in social and healthsciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.Nikos Xypolytas is assistant professor at the University of the Aegean.Tanja Kleibl holds a research chair in Participatory Action Research at the Technical Universityof Würzburg-Schweinfurt.

This book is overdue and an indispensable read for any migration researchers, lecturers or social workers involved into working with refugees or migrants. The different chapters in this book highlight the urgent need to resist when institutional policies and regulations endanger human rights of people on the move.

• Introduction: Petra Danková, Robel Afeworki Abay, Nikos Xypolytas, Tanja KleiblPart I: Theoretical Engagements and Historical ContextsChapter 1. A Critical Analysis of the Role of Social Work in the Context of Displacement and Forced Migration, Norbert Frieters-ReermannChapter 2. Socialist Yugoslavia and Circuits of Decolonial Affinity: Social Policy, Migration and the Non-Aligned Movement, Paul StubbsChapter 3. Depoliticizing Refugees: How a Western World's Favorite Intellectual and Political Game Takes Place and its Alternatives, Nikos Xypolytas and Michalis PsimitisChapter 4. Who is Responsible for Whom in the Age of Globalisation? An Analysis on the Normative Dimension of the Problematisation of Migration of Brazilian Women, Diana Marciele KerberPart II: Entanglements of Social Work and Externalisation of EU Migration RegimesChapter 5. Working Categories: Categorization Dilemmas at the Intersection of Social Work and Mobility in Nigeria, Petra DankováChapter 6. Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration in The Gambia: Aid Workers and Returnees as Implementers and Contesters of Humanitarian Borderwork, Viola CastellanoChapter 7. Social Work and The Challenge of Promoting Human Rights: Reflections on The Situation of Migrants and Refugees in The Western Mediterranean and West African Routes, Emilio J Gómez- Ciriano, Sergio Barciela FernándezPart III: Covid-19, Migration Management and Social WorkChapter 8. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Migrants’ Integration Path in Italy, Roberta T. Di RosaChapter 9. Social Work in a Berlin Shelter for Mobile People during the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic – a Crisis for Professionalism? Alexandra KatteinChapter 10. Overview On the Human Rights of International Migrants in Mexico During the ‘Fourth Transformation’: The Case Of Puebla, Guillermo Yrizar BarbosaPart IV: Resistance and Collective ActionChapter 11. A Critical View of Humanitarian Aid in the Context of the Refugee Camp on Lesvos and Possibilities of a Liberating Practice, Jessica WashburnChapter 12. Human Rights Overboard: Shrinking Spaces for Civil Sea Rescue In The Central Mediterranean Sea, Theresa BeckerChapter 13. Exploration of Refugee Resistance in the Light of Asymmetrical Power Relations: Examples of Refugee Resistance in Europe, Eva Maria GreberAbout the Authors