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ToolsStavinoha, Luděk (2024) McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies:Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece. In: Doing Digital Migration Studies. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 323-342. ISBN 9789463725774
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In the aftermath of the 2016 EU-Turkey deal, EU institutions turned to McKinsey, the US consultancy firm, to eliminate the backlog of asylum cases of thousands of illegalized migrants in refugee camps on Greek islands. From identifying “bottlenecks” in the asylum process to “performance targets” for caseworkers, McKinsey was tasked with transforming the entire reception regime. Based on internal documents obtained through freedom of information requests, this chapter asks: What technocratic imaginaries of control are encoded in McKinsey’s vision of more efficient and orderly migration management? Through a granular account of McKinsey’s intervention, it interrogates the data practices that transformed the refugee population into depersonalized objects of bureaucratic knowledge and sustain the violence of the EU hotspot regime.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | The book project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 647737) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | migration,mckinsey,management consultancy |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2023 01:32 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2024 16:26 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93743 |
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