出版日期：2026-07-29 00:00:00

著者：Reinhard Biedermann

著錄名稱、卷期、頁數：International Politics

摘要：This article reinterprets global migration governance through a revised world-systems lens, arguing that deterrence regimes increasingly operate through engineered semi-peripheries: spatial and institutional functions that absorb legal, reputational, and logistical burdens displaced by core states. These containment spaces are constructed through legal outsourcing, diplomatic framing, targeted transfers, fiscal substitution, institutional buffering, and interior enforcement, allowing states to preserve humanitarian legitimacy while externalising or internalising control. Drawing on cases from Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Americas—including UK–Rwanda, Italy–Albania, EU–Turkey, Australia’s offshore regime, Japan and South Korea’s fiscal substitution, U.S.–Mexico subcontracting, and U.S. interior enforcement—the article shows that migration governance functions as a deterrence-based modular system sustained by strategic ambiguity. It reconceptualises the semi-periphery as a contested governance site, expands externalisation beyond territorial delegation, and interprets institutional instability as a design feature of post-normative containment.

語言：en

ISSN：1384-5748

期刊性質：國外

收錄於：SSCI Scopus

審稿制度：是

國別：GBR

出版型式：電子版