Project description
Exploring temporary protection in the US and South Africa
Temporary protection (TP) is increasingly used by countries to manage large-scale arrivals, yet TP regimes remain under-researched. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the T-PROTECT project will examine the global shift toward TP and its implications for refugee return within the broader migration and asylum system. It will analyse states’ motivations for implementing TP measures and assess how these regimes affect third-country nationals in the South Africa and the US, with a focus on their access to rights, services, and overall well-being. The project will also explore sustainable alternatives to TP, such as effective asylum pathways, regularisation, and socio-economic inclusion, and evaluate their relevance to the European context.
Objective
Temporary Protection Regimes in the European Union, the Unites States of America and South Africa: The Lived Realities of Liminal Legality, Chronic Exile and Sustainable Alternatives (T-PROTECT) is an interdisciplinary study of the turn towards temporality and eventual return of refugees in the global migration and asylum regime. Temporary protection (TP) has been increasingly adopted across multiple countries either to displace the refugee status determination process defined under the 1951 Convention and 1976 Protocol for the large-scale arrivals or as an alternative for who may not qualify for asylum but are nonetheless fleeing potentially dangerous situations. Taking on the challenge of analysing the underlying motivations behind states’ turn towards temporary protection measures to govern migration and asylum, T-PROTECT examines how living under temporary protection regimes is shaping the life of third country nationals in USA and SA, focusing on their access to rights and services, and the broader impact of these processes on their well-being. Furthermore T-PROTECT aims to reveal the sustainable alternatives to temporary protection that include and go beyond effective pathways for asylum applications, regularisation and socio-economic inclusion, analysing their potential for transferability to the European context. Despite widespread use over the past years, a comprehensive understanding of TP regimes remains under-researched. This project will challenge the dual narrative that TP either undermines asylum rights or provides practical solutions through an innovative theoretical framework. Under the guidance of esteemed scholars like Prof. Olga Jubany (UB), Prof. Cecilia Menjivar (UCLA), Prof. Fatima Khan (UCT), and Prof. Sergio Carrera (CEPS), the fellowship will support my career goal of securing a tenure-track position in social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, or another leading university in Europe.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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