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The Moroccan geopolitical position as the vertical border of the European Union
The XXI century has been witnessing an unprecedented bor der closure to the free movement of persons, rather than that of products, goods or capital. This ha s been promoted by northern countries in co-llusion with leaders of southern countries, creating a serious social fracture. The aim of this pa...
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Published in: | CienciaUAT 2017-07, Vol.12 (1), p.52 |
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Language: | Spanish |
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Summary: | The XXI century has been witnessing an unprecedented bor der closure to the free movement of persons, rather than that of products, goods or capital. This ha s been promoted by northern countries in co-llusion with leaders of southern countries, creating a serious social fracture. The aim of this paper was to analyze how the European Union (EU) is favoring the emer gence of a border that crosses Morocco, among other countries, vertically, preventing the arrival of African migrants to the EU. Different secondary sources produced by different international organizations such as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, the Europe an Commission, Amnesty In ternational, Doctors Without Borders and others were ana lyzed The findings suggest that the outs ourcing of the EU border, at the political level, together with the economic relocation of European companies in some southern countri es such as Morocco, is consolidating the existence of new spaces which configure what ha s been termed the vertical border, where new socioeconomic and sybolic scenarios emerge. El siglo XXI está siendo protagonista de un cierre fron terizo sin precedentes a la libre circulación de personas, pero no de mercancías, bienes o capital, promovido por los países del norte, y en con nivencia con los dirigentes de los países del sur, generando una grave fractura social. El objetivo del presen te artículo fue analizar de qué mane ra la Unión Europe a (UE), está favoreciendo la emergencia de una frontera que cruza verticalmente Marruecos (entre otros países), imposibilitando a lo largo de su territorio la llegada a la UE, no sólo de su población, sino también la procedente del resto de Áfri ca. Se analizaron diferentes fuen tes se cundarias, produci das por organismos internacio nales co mo la Agencia Europea de la Guardia de Fron teras y Costas, la Comisión Eu ropea, Amnistía Internacional y Médicos Sin Fronteras. La externalización de la fronterade la UE, en el plano político, junto a la deslocalización, en el plano económico, de empresas europeas en algunos países del sur de Europa, como Marruecos, está consolidando la existencia de nuevos espacios que configuran lo que se denomina frontera vertical, don de emergen nuevos escenarios socioeconómicos y simbólicos. |
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ISSN: | 2007-7521 2007-7858 |
DOI: | 10.29059/cienciauat.v12i1.857 |