O discurso e a prática da União Europeia e da Turquia na proteção dos refugiados : entre a concepção humanista e o interesse estatal

Abstract

In the year 2015, the displacement of refugees in large proportions towards Europe occurred, being classified as the largest migratory movement since the end of the second war. Despite this massive influx of refugees into EU countries, numbers declined in subsequent years as a result of cooperation and joint actions. Among the cooperation policies, the EU-Turkey Statement on Refugees, signed in March 2016, played a substantial role in reducing refugees. The Statement takes into account refugees who used Turkey as a transit country to reach Greece as their first point of entry into the European Union. It opens the way to the questioning of the prevalence of states interests within the European Union and Turkey in the management of migratory flows, to the detriment of a humanistic treatment of refugees. In this sense, it seeks to contrast the humanist conception that configures the aforementioned Statement with the interests that actually led to its signature, as part of the process of securitization of the refugee issue and its political context