Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’
The use of the categories ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’ to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international protection has featured strongly during Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ and has been used to justify policies of exclusion and containment....
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| description | The use of the categories ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’ to differentiate
between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of
their claims to international protection has featured strongly
during Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ and has been used to justify
policies of exclusion and containment. Drawing on interviews with
215 people who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece in 2015, our
paper challenges this ‘categorical fetishism’, arguing that the
dominant categories fail to capture adequately the complex
relationship between political, social and economic drivers of
migration or their shifting significance for individuals over time
and space. As such it builds upon a substantial body of academic
literature demonstrating a disjuncture between conceptual and
policy categories and the lived experiences of those on the move.
However, the paper is also critical of efforts to foreground or
privilege ‘refugees’ over ‘migrants’ arguing that this reinforces
rather than challenges the dichotomy’s faulty foundations. Rather
those concerned about the use of categories to marginalise and
exclude should explicitly engage with the politics of bounding,
that is to say, the process by which categories are constructed,
the purpose they serve and their consequences, in order to
denaturalise their use as a mechanism to distinguish, divide and
discriminate. |
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| spelling | IIS-CIDCACS-RD-123456789-3762023-10-18T21:29:33Z Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ Sandoval García, Carlos Refugiado Inmigrante Desplazamiento Flujos mixtos The use of the categories ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’ to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international protection has featured strongly during Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ and has been used to justify policies of exclusion and containment. Drawing on interviews with 215 people who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece in 2015, our paper challenges this ‘categorical fetishism’, arguing that the dominant categories fail to capture adequately the complex relationship between political, social and economic drivers of migration or their shifting significance for individuals over time and space. As such it builds upon a substantial body of academic literature demonstrating a disjuncture between conceptual and policy categories and the lived experiences of those on the move. However, the paper is also critical of efforts to foreground or privilege ‘refugees’ over ‘migrants’ arguing that this reinforces rather than challenges the dichotomy’s faulty foundations. Rather those concerned about the use of categories to marginalise and exclude should explicitly engage with the politics of bounding, that is to say, the process by which categories are constructed, the purpose they serve and their consequences, in order to denaturalise their use as a mechanism to distinguish, divide and discriminate. UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Sociales::Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS) 2019-06-24T16:27:06Z 2019-11-7T08:46:00Z 2017 informe científico https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224 1369-183X http://repositorio.iis.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/376 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224 en Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Taylor & Francis Journal of Eyhnic and migration studies, Vol. 44, Núm. 1, 2018: 48–64 |
| spellingShingle | Refugiado Inmigrante Desplazamiento Flujos mixtos Sandoval García, Carlos Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ |
| title | Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ |
| title_full | Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ |
| title_fullStr | Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ |
| title_full_unstemmed | Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ |
| title_short | Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ |
| title_sort | refugees migrants neither both categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in europe s migration crisis |
| topic | Refugiado Inmigrante Desplazamiento Flujos mixtos |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224 http://repositorio.iis.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/376 |
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