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Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
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Abstract

To stop refugees and migrants, states have enlisted neighboring third countries to act as buffers, thereby outsourcing border security. With many sub-Saharan migrants transiting North Africa, these regimes there have increasingly served as the EU’s gendarme. Existing studies on the topic are state-centric, and little is known about the attitudes of citizens in buffer states. How do they view their state carrying out another’s border security? Leveraging an original, nationally-representative survey, we find that 66 percent of Morocco’s citizens oppose their country aiding border externalization. We advance an important initiative to “de-center” research on border externalization.

Keywords

Border Externalization; Border Security; Migration; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Immigration; National Security; North Africa; Morocco

Citation

Buehler, Matt, Kristin Fabbe, and Eleni Kyrkopoulou. "Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization." Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (forthcoming). (Published online February 21, 2022.)
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Kristin E. Fabbe

Business, Government and the International Economy
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