The Refugee Crisis and Germany: From Migration Crisis to Immigration and Integration Regime

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Migration Crisis

scholarly journals Problematic Content in Spanish Language Comments in YouTube Videos about Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Aguirre ◽  
Emese Domahidi
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Migration Crisis

On YouTube, we found extensive content relating to the recent Venezuelan refugee movement that mostly affects neighboring countries like Peru and Ecuador. While there are several studies on general hate speech on social media, only a few have focused on the online discussion of the Venezuelan migration crisis representing the Latin American perspective. Here, we analyzed via manual coding and computational text analysis 235,251 comments from 200 YouTube videos (selected according to theoretical criteria) in the Spanish language on the Venezuelan refugee crisis. In our sample, we found a high number of problematic comments in videos on Venezuelan refugees and migrants, of which 32% were offensive comments and 20% were hateful comments. The most common linguistic patterns revealed references to xenophobic, racist, and sexist content, and showed that offensive content and hate speech are not easy to separate. Only a small amount of around 8% of highly active users is responsible for about 40% of the problematic content and these users actively comment on multiple videos, indicating a network structure in our sample. Our results enlighten a much-neglected topic in the discussion about Venezuelan refugees and migrants on YouTube and contribute to an enhanced understanding of online hate speech from a Latin American perspective for better and early detection.

scholarly journals An “Alien” or a Stranger Indeed?

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Mustafa Switat
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Personal Interactions ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Muslim Communities

AbstractWith respect to the current migration crisis in Europe, the term “alien” is generally identified with the Arab or Muslim (for many people: Arab = Muslim) communities. The article contains an analysis of the origins, history, and effects of this phenomenon, illustrated with the example of the Arabs in Poland – a country where both of those communities are small, where there are few immigrants as a rule, and which is not directly impacted by the refugee crisis. In general, there were no negative experiences in Polish–Arabic relations, but—due to the lack of knowledge and personal interactions with members of the Arab (Muslim) diaspora—many Poles perceive them as aliens. Why are they aliens? When did they start being aliens? And if they have always been aliens, then are they aliens indeed? In the paper, I will present an analysis of the way members of the Arab diaspora are perceived as aliens and their sense of alienness in Poland. The analysis is based on the field study of this community, with emphasis on the differences between the Arab migration to Poland/Eastern European countries and their migration to other European states. Additionally, a new theory of inclusion of an alien will be presented along with proposals concerning how to “tame” an alien for the sake of a common, conflict-free existence—because “alien” often simply means the unknown and/or the unwanted to be known.

scholarly journals Challenges and difficulties of translation and interpreting in the migration and refugee crisis in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-170
Author(s):  
Elke Cases Berbel
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
German Government ◽  
The Future ◽  
Translation Services ◽  
Migration Crisis

AbstractThis article presents a comprehensive analysis of the role that interpreters and translators of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge [Bamf]) played during the 2015–2016 migration crisis in Germany along with the improvements made by the German Ministry of the Interior. To this end, we first investigated all the occasions when a refugee needs interpreting and translation services. We then present the requirements to be a Bamf interpreter/translator as well as their working conditions. In addition, we offer research into all the working tools that the German Government has made available to these interpreters/translators, so they can get a comprehensive training in the profession of community interpreter, one of the most demanding branches of interpreting and translation services. Finally, we have summarized the challenges that, in our opinion, Germany faces for the future in order to achieve a better quality in their interpretation and translation services.

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.

Ekonomiczne aspekty polityki integracyjnej Austrii wobec imigrantów

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Ewa Godlewska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Migration Crisis

In recent years the public debate in Europe has been dominated by the topic of refugee crisis. Disputes on its solving have become a part of public life in practically all European countries. Intergovernmental organisations, like the European Union for example, are also interested in this problem. Austria is one of the countries that directly experienced the influx of migrants. In the context of these events, it is worth considering three issues. First of all, is it possible to continue the existing assumptions in the time of the migration crisis? The second is the question of specific challenges for the “integration package” implemented in Austria. The article also attempts to answer the questions: what is the main costs of integration and what is the opinion about this costs? The economic factor has been discussed from several perspectives – the cause, the effect and the kind of challenge for Austria’s integration policy.

The Politics of the Refugee Crisis in Hungary

2018 ◽  
pp. 180-196
Author(s):  
Céline Cantat ◽  
Prem Kumar Rajaram
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Migration Crisis

This chapter describes the production of a migration crisis in Hungary and examines the politics it authorizes. After providing context into the emergence of the discourse of crisis in Hungary, the chapter examines the mechanisms used by the Hungarian authorities to keep the crisis alive in spite of the limited number of people receiving asylum in the country. Finally, the chapter studies the connections between the “migration crisis” and the marginalization of other social groups, particularly Roma. It argues that both are connected to the adoption of capitalist modes of development underpinned by moral economies that rely on the production of various “others.”

scholarly journals Refugee crisis representation on German online press: the case of Aylan Kurdi

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (51) ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ramírez Plascencia
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Online News ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Remarkable Event ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
German People ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

Abstract This paper is focused in examining the digital news representation of Syrian refugee crisis and the conformation of the reader’s opinions in Germany. Data collection will be addressed on reviewing German online news and the reader’s comments related with one remarkable event during the actual migration crisis in Europe: The note about the child Aylan or Alan Kurdi, that drowned in the coast of Turkey in September 02 of 2015. The main aim of this paper is to understand the role of media crisis representation on the opinions of German people. How does media shape public reactions in pro and against helping refugees? And what kind of actions could the European authorities undertake to protect the human rights of refugees and to diminish hate discourse online.

scholarly journals EU policy on irregular migration: the impact of the refugee crisis 2014-2015

2017 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
N. N. Bolshova
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Migrant Smuggling ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Mediterranean Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The paper reviews the current EU policy on irregular migration under the influence of refugee crisis. This crisis urged the EU to streamline and consolidate all the available legal, political and administrative tools to reach the synergy effect in the management of immigration flows into the EU. However the main weakness of the EU approach appears to be the dependence on the opportunities and interests of the third countries (of origin and transit of irregular migrants) to cooperate effectively with the EU institutions and Member-states in such key spheres as fight against migrant smuggling, security of external borders, implementation of readmission agreements, asylum policy. The author evaluates the state of progress on the main Mediterranean migration routes since the beginning of the migration crisis in 2014, analyses some recent EU initiatives, particularly the EU NAVFOR MED Operation Sophia and the new Partnership Framework with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration. In conclusion, the author attempts to assess the effects of these actions.

Syrian Refugees and Turkey

2018 ◽  
pp. 278-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danièle Bélanger ◽  
Cenk Saracoglu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Eu

In academic literature on Syrian refugee migration in Turkey, the situation has generally been portrayed as yet another “refugee crisis” or a “migration crisis” that the international community and the Turkish state must manage efficiently. This chapter argues that the word “crisis” might be better applied to the larger social and political dynamics that induced the forced migration from Syria and continue to shape the living conditions of Syrian refugees in Turkey today. The chapter discusses three crises: Turkey’s neo-Ottomanist foreign policy in the Middle East, the EU–Turkey relations, and the domestic political crisis unfolding in Turkey. Together, these crises prepared a convenient ground for the rise of xenophobic sentiments in Turkish cities. Such crises pose a structural obstacle to the development of a coherent and sustainable programme to successfully manage and incorporate Syrians in Turkey.

scholarly journals Carriers’ liability in the European Union in the era of migration and the refugee crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Maciej Cesarz
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Supporting Tool ◽  
Visa Policy ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Asylum Procedure ◽  
Relevant Factors ◽  
The Eu

The presented article attempts to put carrier sanctions policies in a perspective of the migration and refugee crisis in the EU. The development, motives and rationale of carriers’ liability are explored to highlight the process of privatisation and offshoring of immigration control at the level of the EU and its Member States. The article is based on an extensive review of documents and the literature related to the carrier sanctions policy and the migration crisis. An interdisciplinary approach based on European Studies is mostly applied. The migration and refugee crisis is examined as one of the most relevant factors shaping the carrier sanctions policy in the EU. The current legal and political context is presented, including binding international and EU regulations related to carriers’ responsibilities. The link between the carrier sanctions and visa policy is explored, as well as main arguments for and against maintaining the measures concerned. The paper argues that carriers sanctions constitute a relevant supporting tool for the national and EU visa policy. Aimed mostly at curbing migratory flows and combating illegal immigration, carriers’ liability legislation may lead to exclusion from access to a fair and efficient asylum procedure.

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