ABSTRACT

Since the 2015 refugee crisis the European asylum regime has been under critique for its shortcomings. In order to shed light on the effects of the implementation of the European asylum regime at the border islands, where 80 % of all refugee arrivals took place, I focus on Lesvos, the main island entry point, between 2015–2017. Based on empirical material and secondary sources I trace the evolution of the situation on the island from the increased arrivals of 2015 to the creation of a ‘prison island’ within two years. I operationalize the European asylum regime by looking at three aspects, namely, control, reception and protection. In doing so, I provide a periodization which captures the state of affairs when the arrivals started increasing, the course of events during the peak, and the consolidation of the new architecture of asylum at the island after the EU-Turkey statement. The article demonstrates how the prioritization of control, through confinement at the island, has been serving the goal of identification and registration while raising disproportionally the barriers to access international protection and leading to inhumane reception conditions.

摘要

自2015年难民危机以来，欧洲庇护制度因其缺点而受到批评。为了阐明在边境岛屿上实施欧洲庇护制度的影响，在边境岛屿上所有难民到达的80％发生在这里，我主要介绍2015-2017年间莱斯沃斯岛（主要岛屿的入境点）。基于经验材料和辅助资料，我追踪了岛上局势的演变，从2015年到港人数增加，到两年之内建立了“监狱岛”。我通过研究三个方面来控制欧洲庇护制度，即控制，接收和保护。在此过程中，我提供了一个周期划分，该周期捕获了到达人数开始增加时的状态，高峰期间的事件过程，欧盟-土耳其声明后，该岛的庇护新建筑得到了巩固。这篇文章说明了如何通过限制在岛上的控制来实现识别和登记的目标，同时不成比例地增加了获得国际保护的壁垒并导致不人道的接收条件。