‘Weaponized migration’ – geforceerde migratie als strategisch wapen
28 July 2019
13:00
De verse militaire-spectator heeft meer ‘stof tot nadenken’ over het migranten-vluchtelingen vraagstuk.
Greenhill defined the concept of weaponized migration in 2008 as ‘the manipulation of population movements as operational and strategic means to political and military ends.’[15] She distinguishes between four forms of strategic engineered migration:
1. Dispossessive, meant to dislocate populations in order to appropriate their territory
2. Exportive, which either seeks to strengthen control of an area, or, conversely, loosen control of an area held by a foe by flooding it with refugees
3. Militarized, which disrupts or destroys command and control of a foe by displacing its personnel, or denying access to infrastructure, or possibly overwhelming its military structures
4. Coercive, with actuated or threatened outflows used to extract a certain behaviour from the adversary.[16]
