Islamophobia and Surveillance 2020
DOI: 10.4324/9780429199905-5
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Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and refugees along the Balkan Route

Abstract: Engaging with critical border literature, this article examines how racial and religious categories are mobilized in materializing EU borders in the Balkans. Exploring the tensions that emerge in Muslim communities in post-Socialist and post-conflict Macedonia during the Syrian "refugee crisis" in 2015, it looks at how racialized categorizations of difference are deployed along the Balkan Route to differentiate local, white European Muslims from refugee Arab Others. Through policy analysis and fieldwork, the a… Show more

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“…Second, religion visibly conflates with race, when the refugees' religion becomes racialised. This is most visible in the differentiation between 'white European' and 'dark Arabic' Islam, the latter being seen as threat and danger for European societies (for a discussion of how Balkan Muslims were distinguished from Syrian Muslims during the 2015 migration flow see Rexhepi 2018). These symbolic and social boundaries along religion (and race) significantly impact Syrian refugees' lives, including opportunities to find recognition in the artistic field.…”
Section: Ethnicity In the Field Of Art And The Power Of Categorisationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, religion visibly conflates with race, when the refugees' religion becomes racialised. This is most visible in the differentiation between 'white European' and 'dark Arabic' Islam, the latter being seen as threat and danger for European societies (for a discussion of how Balkan Muslims were distinguished from Syrian Muslims during the 2015 migration flow see Rexhepi 2018). These symbolic and social boundaries along religion (and race) significantly impact Syrian refugees' lives, including opportunities to find recognition in the artistic field.…”
Section: Ethnicity In the Field Of Art And The Power Of Categorisationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the relationship between that displacement and the current migration through the region is complex and, as Hromad zi c (2019:128) highlights, contradictory: in Bosnia, for instance, local populations both "embraced" the new migrants and "wished them gone"; a point that resonated in our own fieldwork encounters. More broadly, as Rexhepi (2018Rexhepi ( :2218 notes, the region came to be seen as a "zone of vulnerability requiring constant surveillance", which necessitated the increased securitisation of borders at multiple geopolitical scales. Border security is sometimes explicitly supported through racialised discourses and practices (see e.g.…”
Section: Violence Against Refugees and Migrants In Calaismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More broadly, as Rexhepi (2018:2218) notes, the region came to be seen as a “zone of vulnerability requiring constant surveillance”, which necessitated the increased securitisation of borders at multiple geopolitical scales. Border security is sometimes explicitly supported through racialised discourses and practices (see e.g.…”
Section: Violent “Pushbacks” At the Croatia–bosnia Bordermentioning
confidence: 99%
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