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Fabos and Isotalo present the modern Muslim world as, simultaneously, a space of flows and a space of religious and political order for mobile Muslims. Muslim states and Muslim movers—refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants, pilgrims, and others—both, recognize its spiritual and political geography. Tensions between Islamically sanctioned movements like pilgrimage and modern migration control shape-securitization policies in the region. Fabos and Isotalo argue that Muslim ideas of space and place add a specific dimension to regional migration management whereas Western anxieties about Islam as an alien and threatening religion underpin much Western analysis of regional migration. A mobilities perspective helps identify additional layers of spiritual meaning for Muslim movers and rulers that shape migratory decisions and policies in the region.
Challenging the Political Across Borders: Migrants’ and Solidarity Struggles
What's so radical about refugee squats? An exploration of urban community-based responses to mass displacement in Athens.2019 •
The so-called ‘European refugee crisis’ has drawn attention to hitherto peripheral actors who produce new spaces, socialities, and readings of humanitarianism. Amongst the actors found in this milieu are faith-based initiatives; diaspora networks; volunteer efforts; and refugee-led self-help initiatives. Recently arrived refugees and migrants find themselves at the loci of intersecting social relations that append themselves to an existing infrastructure of hidden forms of welfare outside state-led social support. To better understand these emergent spaces and socialities, I mobilise the example of autonomous refugee housing collectives, or squats, located largely in and around the Exarcheia district of Athens. This case study reveals the potential and limits of migrant solidarity organising - highlighting the competing, conflicting, and at times contradictory discourses and practices of actors involved. The chapter concludes by questioning whether the transience of refugee populations in Athens adds a further layer of complexity to the possibility of enacting egalitarian modes of solidarity. In so doing, I consider how normative readings of hospitality imbue solidarity initiatives with migrants and refugees. The argument presented here is that refugee squats in Athens are embedded in an almost ineliminable hegemonic humanitarian logic and are thus caught between hospitality and abject space.
Challenging the political across borders: Migrants and solidarity struggles
Imagining the other: the symbolic construction of political entitlement and exclusion among Mexican migrants in Sweden2019 •
Drawing upon 47 semi-structured interviews with Mexican migrants in Sweden, this paper focuses on the different ways in which people construct culturally mediated imaginaries of inter- and intra-group Otherness. Using a semiotic approach, it explores the influence of culturally rooted discourses in the creation of an image of the self and how this affects the perceptions held over specific migrant groups. Traditional markers of class were found to play a pivotal role in the acculturative process of most participants; nonetheless, their stories reveal complex and opposing forms of cultural reconstruction to secure a place on the Swedish social ladder. Narratives are therefore embedded with contradictory feelings of empathy, solidarity, neutrality, resistance, and resentment upon which notions of Otherness are constructed. The paper concludes that symbolic representations of migration are relevant for understanding the types of support and opposition that irregular migrants can obtain from other migrant groups.
Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East
Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East2018 •
The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutiny of global responses and policies towards migration. This book focuses on the Middle East, where many nations are part of this global phenomenon as both home, transit and/or host country. Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East examines the patterns of legal, political and institutional responses to large-scale Syrian forced migration. It analyses the motivations behind neighbouring coun-tries' policy responses, how their responses change over time and how they have an impact on regional and global cooperation. Looking in particular at Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, three of the world's top refugee hosting countries , this book explores how refugee governance differs across countries and why they diverge. To theorize variations, the book introduces multi-pattern and multi-stage refugee governance models as two complementary analytical frameworks. The book further argues that each of these three states' refugee responses is constructed based on three main factors: internal political interests, economic-development related concerns, and foreign policy objectives as well as interactions among them. The book's categoriza-tions and models (on policy fields, actors, stages, patterns and driving forces) provide analytical tools to researchers for comparative analyses. Scholars and students of Comparative Politics, International Relations, Refugee Studies, Global Governance and Middle Eastern Studies will find this book a useful contribution to their fields. Zeynep Şahin Mencütek is an Associate Fellow,
Scholars of religion and theology on the one hand, and academics in the broad field of migration studies on the other, have been examining the intersections between religion and migration from disparate theoretical, methodological, and religious perspectives during the past decade. This groundbreaking multi-authored volume seeks to bring these multiple points of view together both by elucidating each approach and then bringing them into conversation with each other. As the anchor volume in the Palgrave Religion and Global Migrations series, Intersections of Religion and Migration will provide state-of-the-art reviews of academic debates in the field and also suggest productive ways in which scholars may enhance their study of religion and migration by engaging with and employing a variety of approaches to the topic, which will set out a research agenda for the coming decade and beyond. Edited by Jennifer Saunders, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Susanna Snyder. Contributions include: Jennifer Saunders, Susie Snyder and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh: Introduction Holly Straut Eppsteiner and Jacqueline Hagan: Religion as Psychological, Spiritual and Cultural Support in the Migration Undertaking Kim Knott: Living Religious Practices Zayn Kassam: Muslims in America: The Challenges of Migration and the Construction of Religious Identities Khayti Y. Joshi: The Racialization of Religions in Migration Hugo Cordova-Quero: Embodied (Dis)Placements - The Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Migration Studies Ellen Posman: Home and Away: Exile and Diaspora as Religious Concepts Stephen M. Cherry: Exploring the Contours of Transnational Religious Spaces and Networks Daniel Groody: Migration - A Theological Vision Benjamin Schewel: Ethics, Transcendence and Borders Alastair Ager and Joey Ager: Religion, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Response Erin K. Wilson and Luca Mavelli: Taking Responsibility: Sociodicy, Solidarity, and Religious-Sensitive Policy-Making in the Global Politics of Migration Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Susie Snyder and Jennifer Saunders: Tracing The Ways Ahead
Focal point of this paper is the mediated rhetorics of immigration ant its interconnection with the rhetoric on European identity and the impact that Paris terrorist attack upon it. Aim of this paper is to examine: the framing of the influx of immigrants through the Greek islands; the construction of rhetorical borders through competing narratives of immigration; the uniformity in the public vocabulary surrounding immigration and to what extend it has merges with the vocabulary surrounding Islamic terrorism; the rhetorical actualization of fear, risk and threat argumentation in this rhetorical process and finally the impact that a critical event, like the Paris terrorist attacks, haw upon the aforementioned rhetorical processes. The research focuses upon the content of eleven Aegean news sites situated to Greek islands (chiosnews.com, chiosopinion.gr, lesvosnews.gr, lesvospost.com, politikalesvos.gr, dimokratiki.gr, emprosnet.gr, rodiaki.gr, limniakifoni.gr, i-samos.gr, samiakonvima.blogspot.gr). This choice allows us to examine the newsmaking process of domestication (integration of events into the local angle) of the events within the perspectives of the local communities which are at the forefront of the immigrant problem. What is the effect of such close proximity with the immigrant influx? How local Aegean news sites negotiate the meanings produced the EU official rhetoric as well as the Greek ethnocentric perspective? The content of the news sites is examined for three months (October – December 2015). Qualitative content analysis and grounded theory are employed. The analytical tools include: terministic control, persuasive definition, fear appeals and framing.
Political Geography
From “refugee” to “migrant” in Calais solidarity activism: Re-staging undocumented migration for a future politics of asylum2011 •
The framing of issues of migration and clandestine travel in the European Union are tied up with a historically-specific ethos towards the outsider, which, after philosopher Jacques Rancière, I term a “count”. The count shaping the interventions of contemporary advocacy and humanitarian groups derives from conceptions of ethics rooted in political modernity, and – for Rancière – are also responsible for foreclosing disruptive appearances of equality. In practice, postures of compassion towards the refugee convert expressions of vocal dissent into matters for moral sympathy. In this paper I explore the implications of this claim for a future politics of asylum, focussing on moments of interruption to an underlying count. I suggest that the staging of the situation of undocumented migrants in Calais through the figure of the migrant rather than the refugee demonstrates a recasting of activism as a form of political listening rather than political speech – in this sense the interventions of anarchistic network No Borders reflect a call for a continuous “recount” of the situation, over an affirmation of a particular framing of the situation. In some ways this call remains problematic, sometimes reframing the voices of local people and migrants according to an external vision of politics. Nevertheless, I hold that this denaturalisation of compassionate hospitality as the only ethical response to asylum is useful in the broader terrain of political dissent, and points to the importance of embodied habit as a locus for enduring social transformations.► Solidarity activism critiques EU security but also the humanitarian practices. ► The humanitarian ethos of hospitality is seen to reproduce specific power relations. ► Solidarity activists newly politicise the figure of the migrant at EU border struggles. ► The No Borders network problematise representations of asylum at Calais. ► A humanitarian politics of sanctuary is challenged through a politics of spectacle.
IGHC Working Paper Series
States of Refuge: Keywords for Critical Refugee StudiesAn edited collection of KEYWORDS for Critical Refugee Studies.
This book unravels the role of democracy after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and reflects important debates surrounding the security of Muslim communities in the years to come. It looks at the problems of torture, violence and the legal resources available to contemporary democracies to confront terrorism. While terrorism is often regarded as one of the major threats to the West and the nation-state, this book explores the notion that a disciplined sense of terror is what keeps society working. The strengths and limitations of liberalism are examined, as well as the ethical dilemma of torture and human right violations in the struggle against terrorism. This book carefully dissects the origin of the nation-state and how it keeps society united. The author offers a creative and unique approach to democracy and worldwide terrorism, exploring the consequences for the nation-state. This book looks at the connections between terrorism, mobility, consumption, torture and fear.
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Managing Muslim Mobilities, Between spiritual Geographies and the Global Security Regime
El-Abed O. (2014) ‘The discourse of Guesthood: Forced Migrants in Jordan’ in Fabos, Anita and Osotalo, Riina (eds) Managing Muslim Mobilities, Palgrave Macmillan.IASFM & University of Macedonia - Thessaloniki
The role of media on refugee issues2018 •
The Refugee Crisis and Religion: Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question
A right to neighbourhood: rethinking Islamic narratives and practices of hospitality in a sedentarist world2016 •
Local Politics and the Syrian Refugee Crisis Exploring Responses in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan
Local Politics and the Syrian Refugee Crisis Exploring Responses in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan2017 •
Sydney Digital Theses
Crimes of Solidarity: on Hospitality, the State, and the Citizen2019 •
MIGRATION, IRREGULARISATION AND ACTIVISM CONFERENCE
Discursive debate on Iranian LGBTQs’ right in the European media2016 •
Migration and Insecurity: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era
Would-be Citizens and 'Strong States': Circles of Security and Insecurity (2013)2013 •
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Latin American Politics and Society
Universal Citizenship Through the Discourse and Policy of Rafael Correa2017 •
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EU-Turkey Relations and the Migration Issue: practising transactionalism
Edited by Alexandra Prodromidou and Pavlos Gkasis A publication within the EU-financed project 'MIGRATE: CTRL + Enter Europe: Jean Monnet Migrant Crisis Network'2019 •
American Ethnologist
West African strangers and the politics of inhumanity in Angola2018 •
Theological Studies
Reframing Displacement and Membership: The Ethics of MigrationChapter in The Meaning of My Neighbor's Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immgiration
The Global Refugee Crisis and Religious Ethics: Questions to Ask2018 •
Routledge Handbook for Philosophy of the City
Hospitality in Sanctuary Cities2019 •