Identity and Migration: From the ‘Refugee Crisis’ to a Crisis of European Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Myriam Fotou
Keyword(s):  
European Identity ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
And Migration

scholarly journals Social Media in and Around a Temporary Large-Scale Refugee Shelter in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110249
Author(s):  
Peer Smets ◽  
Younes Younes ◽  
Marinka Dohmen ◽  
Kees Boersma ◽  
Lenie Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Top Down ◽  
And Migration

During the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe, temporary refugee shelters arose in the Netherlands to shelter the large influx of asylum seekers. The largest shelter was located in the eastern part of the country. This shelter, where tents housed nearly 3,000 asylum seekers, was managed with a firm top-down approach. However, many residents of the shelter—mainly Syrians and Eritreans—developed horizontal relations with the local receiving society, using social media to establish contact and exchange services and goods. This case study shows how various types of crisis communication played a role and how the different worlds came together. Connectivity is discussed in relation to inclusion, based on resilient (non-)humanitarian approaches that link society with social media. Moreover, we argue that the refugee crisis can be better understood by looking through the lens of connectivity, practices, and migration infrastructure instead of focusing only on state policies.

scholarly journals Doing Frontiers: On the Performativity of the European Border and Migration Regime

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2016) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Tobias Heinze ◽  
Sebastian Illigens Sebastian Illigens ◽  
Michael Pollok
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
European Identity ◽  
European Security ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
Subject Categories ◽  
Multidimensional Matrix ◽  
And Migration

Determining European territory is a delicate endeavor. A definite borderline is hard to identify. Instead, European security discourse spans a space with conditional qualities: open for some, impervious for many. Referring to Judith Butler's theory, this constribution’s aim is to disclose performative forces that create corresponding subject-categories. Particularly, expert-driven legislation on migration and the militarization of the security discourse is relevant. It is possible to reconstruct a multidimensional matrix of intelligibility. For this, relevant policy documents are analyzed by conducting a qualitative content analysis. This contribution allows to critically question foundational dimensions of European identity constituted by regulatory and exclusive practices at the borders.

scholarly journals The Role of Information and Communication Technology in the EU Response to the 2015 Refugee Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2 (176)) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Wasilewski
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Role Of Information

The 2015 refugee crisis – as the mass influx of migrants from the Middle East is commonly dubbed – tested the European Union’s ability to react to large-scale humanitarian emergencies. Apart from various organizational, social and political changes that the 2015 refugee crisis has brought to the European Union, it has also marked the growing role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the EU’s asylum and migration policies. Drawing from the critical perspective of international relations and such concepts as securitization of migration, the paper aims to analyse the engagement of ICT by EU institutions and individual Member States during the refugee crisis in 2015.

scholarly journals Enhancing Urban Encounters: The Transformative Powers of Creative Integration Initiatives

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anniken Førde
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The North ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The City

Sustainable cites require the capacity to live with difference. In a world of increased mobility and migration, our cities become more and more diversified. While national discourses on diversity are often problem-focused, social initiatives are emerging in diverse cities addressing the positive potential of the city as a cross-cultural meeting place. In Norway, such initiatives have increased in number since “the refugee crisis” in 2015, and we see creative approaches arising from civil society, the voluntary sector, private companies, and local governments aiming to facilitate encounters with difference. This article explores innovative integration initiatives in cities in the north, emphasizing how difference might be negotiated, engendering new forms of engagement and responsibility. Cities are seen as sites of experiments, where new relations across difference are developed. Framing encounters as emergent, transitory, fragile, yet hopeful, we discuss the transformative powers of such initiatives for planning in diverse cities.

scholarly journals Discontinuities Within Continuities: Solidarity, (Im-)Mobility and Migration Between Refugee Crisis and COVID-19 Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline Odermatt
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
And Migration

Since the peak of the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, much has been written on the topic of solidarity towards migrants. However, the perspective of migrants on the issue of solidarity and their practices of solidarity has been addressed less. This article aims to outline solidarity in the context of migration in more detail. Firstly, I will outline how solidarity played out towards migrants during the refugee crisis, and I will sketch how migrants engage in cross-border solidarity, having left their sending countries and families behind. Secondly, I will illustrate continuities and discontinuities between the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 crisis with regards to migration policies implemented during these crises. Hereinafter, I will highlight the impacts of these migration measures on the migrants’ capacity to manifest solidarity as well as on forms of solidarity towards migrants. The main argument is that bridging these two crises - the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 crisis - can deepen our understanding of the interplay between migration policies put in place and forms of solidarity among migrants or towards migrants. Hence, the article aims to contribute to the broader discussion on the diverse ways of how crises and crises discourses affect migration policies and consequently the migrants.

scholarly journals Beyond Crisis Talk: Interrogating Migration and Crises in Europe

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Dines ◽  
Nicola Montagna ◽  
Elena Vacchelli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
And Migration

Commencing with some recent examples drawn from Anglophone media, this introductory article reflects on the multiple ways in which crisis and migration have been interconnected over the last decade in public discourse, political debates and academic research. It underlines how crisis has not simply become a key descriptor of specific events, but continues to operate as a powerful narrative device that structures knowledge of migration and shapes policy decisions and governance structures. It explains the rationale for choosing Europe as a multidimensional setting for investigating the diverse links between migration and crisis. It ends with a summary of the contributions that are divided into four thematic strands: relationships between the economic crisis and migrant workers and their families; the Mediterranean in crisis; political and public discourses about the post-2015 ‘migration crisis’; and ethnographies of everyday experiences of the ‘refugee crisis’ on the part of migrants, activists and local people.

Simulating Experiences of Displacement and Migration

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
James N Blake
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
National Security ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Dominant Negative ◽  
The Other ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact

Immigration is a highly politicised and emotive area of public discourse. During the peak of the so-called ‘Refugee Crisis' in Europe, a number of EU politicians and mass media outlets manipulated the abstract idea of ‘the migrant' as a scapegoat for a number of social ills including rising crime, unemployment and national security. Yet, during these years, some news organisations did seek to counter the dominant negative narratives around migration by exploring new modes of storytelling around interactive and immersive digital environments. This study examines four such media projects, all developed between 2014 and 2016. Their interactive narratives sought to break down popular discourses which portrayed migrants as “the other” by creating an emotional connection between media user and the experience of refugees themselves. For this research, journalists, editors, and producers were interviewed to determine the motivations of the content creators and the impact their storytelling techniques had on viewers.

scholarly journals The ​ ​representation ​ ​of ​ ​refuge ​ ​and ​ ​migration ​ ​in ​ ​the ​ ​online ​ ​media ​ ​in ​ ​Brazil ​ ​and abroad: ​ ​a ​ ​Cognitive ​ ​Linguistics ​ ​analysis

Signo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (75) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Luciane C Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Migration

The present study aims at mapping how the situation of refuge and migration is represented metaphorically in the Brazilian online media. From the data collected, we will establish comparisons between the representations that were found. An approach that contemplates the frame study employed in the media allows us to observe that verbal and nonverbal resources, metaphorical sentences and lexical items are constituted into discursive ​frames. ​We intend to discuss how the migrant and the refugee are represented in the Brazilian online media. Some questions we will investigate are: What are the discourses on the reception of refugees and migrants? Which discourses on the integration of refugees and migrants are broadcasted? From these questions, we will examine how such categories compose the image of the migrant and the refugee. The corpus used was based on the news of the online newspaper ​Folha de São Paulo from June, 2015, seen as it was in this month that the so called “refugee crisis” occurred in Europe. The gathering and analysis were done with the help of two free softwares: Notepad++, that allows the user to save texts in ​txt format, and Antconc, that enables the analysis of several txt files through tools that are used in Corpus Linguistics. The concordance lines obtained by inserting a word of choice in AntConc’s concordancer were then analyzed manually through Cameron’s (2010) Metaphor-led Discourse Analysis. A larger objective will be to identify which metaphorical ​frames are used in the migrant’s and refugee’s media representation and what are their social implications. Such frames contribute to organize and potentialize the discourse about the ​ ​Other ​ ​(BRUNO, ​ ​2016).

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