Challenges to Desecuritizing Migration in Greece

Swarts, Jonathan; Karakatsanis, Neovi M.

doi:10.1080/19448953.2012.736238

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“…Parmi ces « nouvelles » menaces sécuritaires, l'immigration est l'un des principaux axes thématiques des études de sécuritisation. La sécuritisation de l'immigration a généré un vaste corpus d’études empiriques abordant une pluralité de cas nationaux, bien que gravitant autour de son foyer originel de l'Europe de l'ouest, avec au premier plan la France, l'Italie, le Royaume-Uni (Buonfino, 2004; Caviedes, 2014), la Grèce (Mantouvalou, 2005; Karyotis et Patrikios, 2010; Swarts et Karakatsanis, 2013) et la Turquie (Bilgin, 2011; Togral, 2012). Le cas du Canada a été comparativement peu analysé sous l'angle de la sécuritisation.…”

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Immigration, médias et sécuritisation au Canada : une étude deLa Presseet duNational Post, 1998–2015

Vigneau

2020

Can J Pol Sci

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RésuméCet article propose une documentation empirique du processus social de construction de l'immigration comme un problème de sécurité pour l’État canadien et sa population, et ce, au travers d'une analyse de contenu thématique d'articles de journaux publiés par La Presse et le National Post entre 1998 et 2015. Il quantifie et compare la place occupée par quatre discours-types au sein du discours médiatique canadien sur l'immigration. Ultimement, il révèle un discours de sécurité publique élevé fluctuant de façon importante sur la période et réfute l'hypothèse d'une intensification linéaire de la sécuritisation.

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Immigration, médias et sécuritisation au Canada : une étude deLa Presseet duNational Post, 1998–2015

Vigneau

2020

Can J Pol Sci

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“…The article reminds us, following Arendt (1970), that "it is the function…of all action…to interrupt what would otherwise have proceeded automatically, and therefore predictably" (Arendt, 1970, p. 31). However, the authors are anything but complacent about the possibilities for self-organising and solidarity politics in the wider context of Greece, with rising xenophobia (see also Swarts & Karakatsanis, 2013).…”

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Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City: Towards Inclusion through Deepening Democracy?

Hintjens

Kurian

2019

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In this introductory article, the main theoretical concerns guiding this thematic issue are briefly discussed, alongside an overview of relevant literature on rights and urban citizenship. We draw on the work of Engin on 'enacted citizenship,' and combine Hannah Arendt's 'right to have rights' with Henri Lefebvre's 'right to the city,' for inspiration. The hope is that these concepts or theoretical tools help our contributors explore the 'grey areas' of partial inclusion and exclusion, and to connect the informal with the formal, migrants with professionals, locals with those from elsewhere. Since the contributions in this issue come from practitioners as well as scholars, we are interested in very different forms of urban citizenship being enacted in a range of settings, in such a way as to overcome, or at least side-step, social, economic and political exclusion within specific urban settings. In this introduction we reflect on urban migrants organising and mobilising to enact their own citizenship rights within specific urban spaces, and present each of the eight published articles, briefly illustrating the range of approaches and urban citizenship issues covered in this thematic issue. The examples of urban enacted citizenship practices include efforts to construct economic livelihoods, gain access to health care, promote political participation, reweave the social fabric of poor neighbourhoods, and provide sanctuary. All of which, our contributors suggest, requires the engagement of the local urban authorities to allow room for the informal, and to accept the need for improved dialogue and improved access to public services.

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“…19 During the 1990s, migration was securitized in Greece in elite and mass media rhetoric, in state policies and in public opinion. 20 A sizeable part of xenophobic political and mass media rhetoric linked the increase in migration levels to increasing crime rates and stressed the need to exclude migrants from Greek society. In term of state policies, a restrictive immigration law was adopted in 1991 (Law 1975/1991) that put emphasis on preventing the entry of undocumented immigrants and facilitated deportation.…”

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Securitizing Migration in the European Union: Greece and the Evros Fence

Grigoriadis

Dilek

2018

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

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This article focuses on the securitization of migration in Greece through the case of the Evros anti-immigrant fence. The fence was constructed in 2012 with the aim to limit the flow of irregular migration from Turkey to Greece. This paper explores the reasons why the Greek government decided to build the fence and its political implications by focusing on the securitization of migration in Greece both through practices and through securitizing rhetoric. The paper argues that the construction of the Evros fence is closely associated with changing perceptions of threat and the framing of migrants as risky and threatening both at the national and the EU levels.

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Challenges to Desecuritizing Migration in Greece

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Immigration, médias et sécuritisation au Canada : une étude deLa Presseet duNational Post, 1998–2015

Immigration, médias et sécuritisation au Canada : une étude deLa Presseet duNational Post, 1998–2015

Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City: Towards Inclusion through Deepening Democracy?

Securitizing Migration in the European Union: Greece and the Evros Fence

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