Régime de confinement et gestion des migrations sur l’île de Chypre

Abstract

This article examines the migratory system of the Cypriot Republic which specificity is to be at the same time the second country of the European Union in terms of foreigners' percentage with regard to the total population, but also one of the most closed to the long-lasting installation of foreigners on its territory. The central hypothesis of the analysis is that, to solve this visible paradox, was developed in Cyprus, a « confinement regime » leaning on the sidelining of foreigners, in space and in time. The article examines at first, on the scale of the island, the various forms of this sidelining, leaning of the principle that the places of detention, the contracts of employment and the legal statutes constitute a continuum of forms of confinement maintaining foreigners away from the national community. The focal is then put on a very localized space, the center of asylum seekers of Kofinou, for a micro analysis of the various forms of confinement, and the way the actors seize it, or undergo it. A more theoretical thought is finally proposed around the notion of " confinementary government " developed from the Cypriot case, which allows a triple decompartmentalization of the analysis of migratory policies by exceeding the dichotomies inside-outside; wanted-unwanted; control-circulation.

Keywords

• Cyprus
• European Union
• confinement
• migratory policies
• asylum seekers
• domestic work