Immigration and human rights

What do borders mean?

Migrants are mostly seen as a threat.

“Is this approach towards migrants a natural process or does it exist with human intervention?”

The securitization process plays an important role at this point. Securitization affects what is or isn't a threat. If you define an immigrant as illegal, you make it a security issue. However, the immigration process may be illegal, but the concept of illegal immigrants is an unacceptable approach. A person herself cannot be illegal. The action itself may be illegal. In international law, this terminology is not accepted.

The understanding of migration and borders is the result of patriarchy. Dominating a piece of land, protecting it, and perceiving everything from the outside as a threat to its existence shows the patriarchal identities of the states. We can also see this connection in the issue of multiculturalism because multiculturalism refers to distinct ethnic and cultural groups seen to be politically relevant. Who selects that culture, and what about the origin culture power in society? Origin culture is very patriarchal, so, this patriarchal community reproduced this multicultural policy. Also, in a multicultural society, the culture of the naturally succeeding minority group will not be recognized. This is a situation that needs to be posted and is completely related to patriarchy. This created lower class can also be supported by state policies.


Another important phenomenon we encounter here is citizenship. According to Marshall's citizenship model, citizenship gives members of a community equality of social status because non-citizens may not enjoy many basic rights, especially in countries with strict policies against refugees such as the UK, those who do not have citizenship rights face greater barriers in the political system than others. Granting citizenship to immigrants may affect cultural and political homogeneity, but the inability of immigrants to become citizens and thus not access social rights may result in divided societies without inequality. This division leads to the rise of nationalism and the promotion of far-right policies.

As we saw in the example of Trump and the Mexican Wall. The British government has also submitted a draft law that will prevent people who have reached the UK illegally from applying for asylum. This is a violation of international law and bureaucratic violence.  The biggest transformation is done by the state. Because states that follow the right policies, contrary to the idea that we provide security with this policy, this policy they cling to, drags the society and the individuals who make it up into an insecure environment. In other words, military-oriented security based on patriarchal thought emerges as insecurity itself. Migration is also important because of the negative consequences for immigrants themselves. The FIFA issue is an indicator of how migrant workers are turned into a sub-human and class hierarchy. For example, the Kafala system in Katar. As a result, perhaps the most fundamental thing we need to think about is whether human rights and refugee rights conflict, based on the increasingly rigid immigration policies in Europe, like the concept of deserving immigrants. The fact that the person who wants cannot go where she wants is an issue that needs to be thought about.