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FILTER: Filtering Governance of Mobility, Connectivity and Regulation in EU–Central Asia Relations

Objective

FILTER is an interdisciplinary research and training project that reconceptualises EU engagement with Central Asia through the lens of filtering governance. Rather than framing external governance in terms of openness versus closure or inclusion versus exclusion, the project argues that contemporary governance operates through mechanisms that selectively enable, channel, and stratify the circulation of people, goods, and value. Mobility, connectivity, and market participation are thus shaped by differentiated access, conditional compliance, and uneven participation.

Analytically, FILTER integrates three domains usually studied separately: (1) migration and labour mobility regimes; (2) connectivity infrastructures and geoeconomic corridors, particularly those linked to the EU’s Global Gateway and the Middle Corridor; and (3) regulatory governance and compliance regimes, including sustainability standards, critical raw materials, and sanctions. By analysing these domains together, the project develops filtering governance as a framework for understanding how EU external action structures stratified circulation across sectors and scales.

Empirically, the project focuses on Central Asia as a strategic site where overlapping governance mechanisms intersect. Positioned at the crossroads of transregional connectivity, competing regulatory initiatives, and intensive labour mobility, the region offers a critical setting to examine how EU policies are implemented, negotiated, and contested in practice.

FILTER is implemented as a multi-sited, interdisciplinary MSCA Staff Exchange linking academic and non-academic partners across Europe and Central Asia. Through staff exchanges, joint fieldwork, and co-produced outputs, the project will generate original theoretical, empirical, and policy-relevant insights into the organisation of circulation in the contemporary global political economy.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE - HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2026-SE-01

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Coordinator

LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Net EU contribution
€ 573 870,00
Address
Paradisgatan 5c
22100 Lund
Sweden
Region
Södra Sverige Sydsverige Skåne län
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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