scholarly journals Displaced and Invisible: Ukrainian Refugee Crisis Coverage in the US, UK, Ukrainian, and Russian Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Roman ◽  
Anna Young ◽  
Stephynie C. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Us

Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play

Genre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Patricia Stuelke
Keyword(s):  
White Male ◽  
Central American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Colonial Capitalism ◽  
Road Novel ◽  
Colonial Frontier ◽  
Us Mexico Border

This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive's attempt to imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US-Mexico border, as well as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler colonial frontier fantasy, the essay focuses particularly on Lost Children Archive's engagement with the tradition of the white male road novel Western in the Americas—Luiselli's attempts to write both through and against this form—as part of the novel's larger attempt to grapple with the formal problems that adhere in representing the temporality and scale of ongoing Central American Indigenous dispossession and refugee displacement in settler colonial capitalism. In exploring the degree to which the Western genre's tradition of, per Philip Deloria, “playing Indian” might oppose the brutal bureaucratic violence of the xenophobic carceral settler US state, the novel builds a critique of the frontier road novel fantasy that it cannot quite sustain.

scholarly journals How Much Market Access? A Case Study of Jordan's Exports to the EU

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHANIE BRUNELIN ◽  
JAIME DE MELO ◽  
ALBERTO PORTUGAL-PEREZ
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Us ◽  
Textiles And Apparel ◽  
Economic Zones ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe value of preferential market access schemes has fallen sharply. Drawing on a relaxation announcement of July 2016 simplifying origin requirements for access to the EU that should help improve market access, thereby contributing to alleviate the refugee crisis in Jordan, this paper argues that a simplification of origin requirements is a straightforward way to enhance preferential market access. Yet, the EU decision limits the beneficiaries who must be located in designated special economic zones, which limits preferential market access. The paper compares the performance of Jordanian exports to the EU and the US under their respective FTAs. It shows that Jordanian exports to the US have grown more rapidly than exports to the EU over the last 15 years. The study documents lower utilisation of preferences in the EU than in the US, especially in Textiles and Apparel (T&A) in spite of non-negligible preferences. Three contributing factors are identified: (i) higher adjusted preferences for apparel in the US than in the EU; (ii) greater competition from other suppliers (mostly from LDCs) in the EU market than in the US market; (iii) simpler origin requirements in the case of the Jordan–US FTA. Comparative evidence from the two FTAs and econometric estimates suggest that this should help restore market access for Jordanian exports to the EU. These estimates provide additional evidence that origin requirements suppress market access. Other pathways to simplify origin requirements are offered in the conclusion.

scholarly journals Constitutional Identity in the Age of Global Migration

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 1587-1594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Bast ◽  
Liav Orgad
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Liberal Tradition ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Border Controls ◽  
Constitutional Identity

Global migration yields political shifts of historical significance, profoundly shaking up world politics as manifested by the European refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and throughout the US election. The refugee crisis—which, from a human rights perspective, is first and foremost a crisis of protection—has enhanced the already-existing discussion on justifiable and unjustifiable attempts by nation-states to safeguard their constitutional “essentials” by reinforcing border controls and using selective immigration and citizenship policies. How can liberal states, or a supranational Union formed by such states, welcome immigrants and treat refugees as future denizens without fundamentally changing their constitutional identity, forsaking their liberal tradition, or slipping into populist nationalism? This question is one of the greatest contemporary challenges in constitutional law and theory nowadays.

Sanctuary

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Milta Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Border Patrol ◽  
Political Asylum ◽  
Central Americans ◽  
Opening Scene ◽  
Real People ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Immigration

Sanctuary is a play based on real events and real people. In this opening scene, we meet Carol and Mica as they set out to investigate what they believe to be a refugee crisis in 1981. They have uncovered harsh truths about Central Americans, mostly Salvadorans, fleeing war. They are being detained by border patrol under the US Immigration and Naturalization Service's orders and are being coerced against political asylum applications. Mica and Carol set out to help refugees apply for political asylum, but first they must convince the detainees one by one that they can be trusted.

Telling Stories That Never End: Valeria Luiselli, the Refugee Crisis at the US-Mexico Border, and the Big, Ambitious Archival Novel

Genre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-193
Author(s):  
Valentina Montero Román
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
White Men ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Literary Techniques

This essay argues that Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) experiments with literary techniques often associated with the “big, ambitious novel” to represent the pervasive problems created by US racial construction. More specifically, it contends that Luiselli's novel evokes the archive in its fragmentation, recombinant organization, and narrative multiplicity as a means for demonstrating the complexity and relentlessness of the refugee crisis and the constructions of Latinx difference that develop alongside it. Creating a recursive, referential narrative form, Lost Children Archive highlights the absences of refugee voices, attends to the histories of violence that have led to their disappearance, and refuses to posit an answer to how the story of the crisis ends. This analysis reroutes theories of the big, ambitious novel through discussions of archival recovery, immigrant maximalism, and historical revision developed in feminist and critical race theory, and suggests that big, ambitious novel strategies like polyphony, fragmentation, and centripetal connectivity are the provenance of women and people of color at least as much as they are the domain of the white men often associated with the form.

Framing Syrian refugees: US local news and the politics of immigration

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852110066
Author(s):  
Aziz Douai ◽  
Mehmet F Bastug ◽  
Davut Akca
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Local News ◽  
Administrative Costs ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
The Us ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

The article investigates news coverage and media framing of the Syrian refugee debate as a public opinion issue in US local news in 2015. The sheer number of refugees created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as millions of civilians settled in neighboring countries, and a significant number of them embarked on a perilous journey to seek refuge in European countries. The political response to the Syrian refugee crisis was divided, but public attitudes shifted after the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015 with calls for more restrictive immigration policies and smaller refugee quotas. In the US, GOP leaders demanded “extreme vetting” and “screening” of refugees and many opposed resettling the modest number of refugees the Obama administration promised to let in. The study analyzes local news coverage variation across the States that welcomed, not welcomed or did not commit to accepting Syrian refugees at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016. The findings of the study demonstrate that the editorial framing of the Syrian refugee crisis downplayed the global responsibility and international commitment of the US, highlighted the administrative costs and framed them as security threats. The implications of these frames are discussed.

Belonging and Displacement

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Ken R. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Iraqi Refugees ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
Decision Points ◽  
The Us ◽  
Iraqi Refugee ◽  
Refugee Experience

This chapter contains a series of individual and family migration histories that represent common experiences of the violent removal of belonging after the Iraq War, followed by exile and survival in surrounding countries, and finally the momentous decision points about asylum seeking and resettlement in countries outside the Middle East. While each of these individuals’ stories is unique, they illustrate commonalities of the Iraqi refugee experience. The chapter describes how it was only after intense lobbying by refugee advocates, Iraq War veterans, and organizations such as LIST: The Project, that the resettlement door was opened via the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act. Thus, the first significant waves of Iraqi refugees began to arrive in the US in 2008. A total of 124,159 Iraqi refugees would be resettled in the US between 2008 and 2015. Iraq would be the number-one refugee sending country to the US for four of the next seven years.

Crisis and Opportunity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Us ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Maoist China ◽  
Previous Scholarship

This chapter confirms the findings of previous scholarship concerning the complicated international politics that surrounded the Chinese refugee problem in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s volatile political status-as a British colony on the doorstep of Maoist China-led Hong Kong’s British rulers to impose strict limits on the degree to which the US was allowed to exploit the propaganda value of the refugee crisis in Hong Kong. Given these constraints as well as ARCI’s limited success in achieving its other major goal-that of resettling large numbers of Chinese refugee intellectuals in places and occupations where they could play a politically useful role-one is left to ponder whether ARCI had any lasting significance beyond its impact on the lives of the individuals and families who were resettled overseas under its auspices, which was significant and often dramatic.

scholarly journals From Lampedusa to the California Desert: Gianfranco Rosi's Scenes of Living and Dying

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Contemporary Film ◽  
Heads Of State

Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea, 2016), won the Golden Bear at the 2016 Berlinale, was shown to the European parliament, distributed to heads of state by Matteo Renzi, and has become the contemporary film most closely associated with the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. This article considers the film alongside Rosi's earlier film about Slab City, California, Below Sea Level (2008), previously little seen in the US. Wilson argues that Rosi is more than a filmmaker of the migrant tragedy in Europe, radically important though his vision is of this moment. With and beyond Fuocoammare, all his films look at extreme experiences of living and dying. Inspired by the work of philosopher and psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelle on secrecy, love, tenderness and risk, Wilson considers how Rosi's films achieve a closeness to their characters: a sensory and emotional immediacy, whilst refusing voyeurism and intrusion.

Alternative approach to security – soft power

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (38) ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
Jan Maciejewski ◽  
Donata Borowska
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Smart Power ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face

The purpose of the article is to describe, from the perspective of political science and sociology, an alternative approach to security connected with soft power in the context of the endeavour to ensure security to every human being. The authors propose to consider security-related alternatives of the second half of the 21st century as a combination of soft power and hard power – that is, smart power – applied in the area of social and political relations. Conducting politics in the spirit of soft power seems particularly justified and substantial in the face of the contemporary immigration and refugee crisis. Modern states, especially European states and the US, are security subjects that both defend security and seek it using soft power with potential support – when necessary – on the part of hard power. The authors discuss this phenomenon on the example of the US. The article shows, in a manner substantive for security sciences, the relations between knowledge and power, because it is them that determine contemporary societies. An approach to security in the spirit of soft power is becoming a significant factor shaping security culture.

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