The study aims to analyze Georgia's Migration Strategy 2021-2030 and its elaboration process within a multi-stakeholder format. The Strategy along with the annual action plans and a logic framework, sets a state policy on migration. The development of migration policy and cohesive field management is a novel and largely understudied phenomenon in the local context. It also falls beyond the general research focus of migration policies within the Western liberal democracies. In addition, conditions related to Georgia's specific location, introduced by the thesis, give relevance to studying the contemporary manifestation of migration in the state policy. The research is interested in the knowledge paradigms and its sources that form the policy, and their role in creating salience of certain topics, while muting others. The research uses an ethnographic method and a poststructural policy analysis to interrogate the strategy and its development process. The results are assessed with the use of a conceptual framework assembled from Brown and Balibar's theorization of relationship between neoliberalism and democracy, and its consequent impact on democratic governance. The findings reveal the prominence of neoliberal rationality as a political and normative form of reason and display some of its sources of power. In this process, best practices function as perceived neutral forms of knowledge and further carry a legitimizing effect due to their intrinsic contingency on the European geopolitical space. In overall, the results reveal a certain 'disorganic' development of migration policy, dislocated from Georgia's historical and contemporary realities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-187168 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nadibaidze, Tamar |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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