"Refugee crisis" or crisis of European migration policies?

Manuela Bojadžijev, Sandro Mezzadra

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Abstract

“The refugee crisis in Europe is fabricated,” Prem Kumar Rajaram writes in the opening post of this series. It is certainly true that the framing of current events in terms of crisis and emergence contributes to a dramatization of the situation and opens up the space for “certain forms of intervention and the production of specific types of subjects.” This frame reproduces a division of labor, according to which migrants and refugees play a passive role while states, governments, and European institutions are the active agents, called upon to intervene and solve the “crisis.” This is part and parcel of a process through which the “crisis” becomes a governmental category and device.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages5
JournalFocaalBlog
Volume42320
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • refugees
  • European Union countries
  • government policy

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