Politics, Strategy, and State Responses to Conflict Generated Migration: Evidence from India

Paliwal, Avinash

Abstract

Why do states respond differently to conflict-generated migration crises across space and time? Building on valuable existing literature, this article offers a new conceptual typology of “situational strategic contexts” (SSCs). It hypothesizes that the interactions between the host state's domestic-political and international-strategic priorities generate different SSCs that shape policy responses. These contexts favor either accommodation, toleration, or repatriation of migrants and are implemented with or without support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Sensitive to the history and future ambitions of a country, this framework demonstrates how an interplay between domestic and international-strategic logics at specific historical moments influences state behavior toward conflict-generated migration. The SSC framework is developed inductively using evidence from India, a democracy in the global south, which hosts conflict-evading migrants from many neighboring countries.

Citation

Paliwal, A. (2022). Politics, Strategy, and State Responses to Conflict Generated Migration: Evidence from India. Journal of Global Security Studies, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab032

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 23, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jan 10, 2022
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Nov 24, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 24, 2021
• Journal: Journal of Global Security Studies
• Print ISSN: 2057-3189
• Electronic ISSN: 2057-3170
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab032
• Keywords: migration, security, strategy, Mots clés: migration, sécurité, stratégie, Palabras clave: migración, seguridad, estrategia
• Publisher URL: https://academic.oup.com/jogss/article/7/1/ogab032/6501594