2018
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1415455
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Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and refugees along theBalkan 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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“…In Germany, this can be exemplified in stereotypes and discrimination of Rom:nja and Sinti:zze based on demonizing-eroticizing ideas linked to musicality, permissiveness, and crime, while Muslims are constructed and discriminated as being the counterpart to the ‘West,’ lacking secularism and women’s rights, and being associated with a cultural threat or terror attacks ( Arndt, 2017 ). This association is reflected in corresponding stereotypes ( Rexhepi, 2018 ; Fröhlich and Schulte, 2019 ).…”
Section: Different Forms Of Racism Within Europementioning
confidence: 94%
“…In Germany, this can be exemplified in stereotypes and discrimination of Rom:nja and Sinti:zze based on demonizing-eroticizing ideas linked to musicality, permissiveness, and crime, while Muslims are constructed and discriminated as being the counterpart to the ‘West,’ lacking secularism and women’s rights, and being associated with a cultural threat or terror attacks ( Arndt, 2017 ). This association is reflected in corresponding stereotypes ( Rexhepi, 2018 ; Fröhlich and Schulte, 2019 ).…”
Section: Different Forms Of Racism Within Europementioning
confidence: 94%
“…The EU has externalised its border policies and responsibilities to countries outside of its external borders (Norman 2020), including South East Europe which it sees as the 'Western Balkans' a policy area to which initiatives, such as border security externalisation, Frontex cooperation and additional funding for migration issues, are diffused and implemented. Such cooperation is seen in broad terms as a part of the EU integration process (Geiger 2016;Rexhepi 2018) in Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania, and prior to its accession, Croatia.…”
Section: Impact Of the Eu's Externalisation On Migrants And Their Experiences Of Violencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the case of Bulgaria or Hungary for instance, as in the case of Romania that you raise above, the attack by the far right on racialized and impoverished communities has gone hand in hand with the attack on 'gender ideologies.' The merging of liberal and right wing with the EU bordering and securitization platforms in post-socialist spaces has managed to create serious divisions in forging intersectional and international solidarities (Rexhepi 2018b). This is not to say they don't exist.…”
Section: Piromentioning
confidence: 99%