Composer avec le risque : la frontière sud de l'Albanie entre politique des États et solidarités locales

Rapper, Gilles de; Sintès, Pierre

doi:10.3406/receo.2006.1795

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“…In contrast, in a situation where restrictions to mobility persisted after 1990 as in the case of Albanians heading to Greece, the border and the activities related to border-crossing became a resource that only certain groups of people could use (De Rapper, Sintès, 2006). In a situation where doors selectively open, when speaking Greek and being Christian orthodox increases migration opportunities, ethnic markers and religious belonging become a matter of negotiation.…”

Section: Shifting the Boundaries Of Ethnicitymentioning

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Discursive Representations of Asylum Seekers and Illegal Immigrants in Ireland

Burroughs

O’Reilly

2013

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Migrants are often referred to as an all encompassing group of people and the “many faces of migration”, the variety of people, legalities and complexities involved, can be overlooked. The same can be said for non-EU migrants in the Irish context. Non-EU migrants (or those that are not Caucasian) are generally viewed to be a distinct cohort of comparable migrants. Indeed, these migrants are often portrayed in a broadly negative way by key Irish institutions (such as the parliament or the media), and these representations impact upon how Irish society views non-EU migration and indeed migration in general. While Ireland is by no means the only European country in which this type of practice occurs, this paper aims to draw attention to generalized, inaccurate and misleading representations of non-EU migrants in Ireland, by specifically examining representations of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. There can be an overlap in how these “types” of migrants are conceptualized and this paper therefore aims to develop an understanding of the implications involved for migrants categorized as an “asylum seeker” or an “illegal immigrant.” Furthermore, these topics are under-researched within the Irish context, yet they receive much political and public attention. At the same time however, this paper aims to challenge the labels assigned to non-EU migrants and the terminology that is used to define their identity so concretely. In the Irish context there is much confusion in relation to the multiple “faces” of non-EU migration, as a range of terminology is used to refer to them. This terminology is often used in an interchangeable manner, in an array of societal contexts. There is a consistent (whether this happens intentionally or unintentionally is debatable) misuse of categories and migration terminology in Irish institutional discourses. Quite often those seeking asylum are referred to as illegal immigrants and vice versa. Paradoxically, to an Irish audience it is very clear who the “undocumented Irish” in the US are, as these Irish emigrants, who are residing and/or employed illegally/without documentation in the US, have gained and still gain huge public and government support, both politically and financially. The paper draws attention to the confusion that exists around the different statuses of non-EU migrants, focusing in particular on the categories of “asylum seeker” and “illegal immigrant”, and explores the differing practices of labelling of non-EU migrants in Ireland. It will be argued throughout this paper that the categorizing and labelling of migrants is an implicitly political act of exclusion.

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Section: Shifting the Boundaries Of Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Discursive Representations of Asylum Seekers and Illegal Immigrants in Ireland

Burroughs

O’Reilly

2013

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“…Thus was emerging a new powerful enclave of the studied ethnos, which could suddenly threaten the local forces. After the destruction perpetrated by the forces sent by Turks in the 18 th century and after the Greek Civil War, in 1943War, in -1949 the banished inhabitants of Gramousta and other localities of this mountain range moved to the areas of the Pindos Mountains, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Moldavia 45 , however cherishing the memory of the "times and spaces of their happiness" was.…”

Section: Real and Mythical Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artifacts of the Past as Traces of Memory. The Aromanian Cultural Heritage in the Balkans

Kocój

2016

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Celem tego artykułu jest odpowiedź na kilka pytań: (1) jakie ślady materialnego dziedzictwa kulturowego Aromanów (Wlachów) odnajdujemy na terenach dzisiejszej Albanii, Grecji i Republiki Macedonii; (2) co mówią one o społeczności lokalnej, jej historii i znaczeniu w kulturze europejskiej; (3) czy istnieje współcześnie aromańska pamięć zbiorowa dotycząca miejsc, w których zachowały się ślady tego dziedzictwa? W tekście dokonano opisu regionów, które zamieszkiwali Aromanie, zaprezentowano wstępne kryteria podziału ich dziedzictwa kulturowego na grupy, przypisując im wybrane przykłady zabytków, a także wskazano, jakie wybrane znaczenia i sensy związane z kulturą aromańską odkrywamy, traktując owe zabytki jako tekst kultury. W artykule wykorzystano jakościowe metody badań terenowych, w tym wywiady i obserwacje związane ze śladami tego dziedzictwa w wybranych miejscowościach Grecji, Albanii i Republiki Macedonii, wraz z wykonaniem dokumentacji fotograficznej. Badaniu poddano także źródła zastane (historyczne i etnograficzne) oraz zasoby dostępne w Internecie – przeanalizowano narracje dotyczące odpowiednich zabytków w źródłach etnograficznych (dawnych i współczesnych wspomnieniach Aromanów) znajdujące się w nowych mediach, w tym na blogach i portalach internetowych. W analizie posłużono się paradygmatem historyczno-porównawczym i interpretatywnym, co pozwalało na badanie ukrytych znaczeń i kodów kulturowych związanych z dziedzictwem aromańskim.Badania pokazały, że na terenie Bałkanów zachowały się liczne artefakty dziedzictwa kulturowego Aromanów, z którymi związane są rozmaite sensy i znaczenia (m.in. organizacja przestrzeni, przestrzenie realne i mityczne, wielokulturowość i konflikt).

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“…By 2001, more than a sixth of all Albanians lived abroad, their remittances accounting for almost a quarter of the country's GDP (Nicholson, 2003). The Albanian state no longer assumed significance in their trans‐national strategies, as they oriented their lives towards the countries in which they or their close relatives now lived and worked (Rapper and Sintes, 2006; Stahl and Sikor, forthcoming). Migration, therefore, posed as significant a challenge to the authority of the Albanian state as the people's frustrations with the political leadership, open violence and customary arrangements.…”

Section: National Politics In Albania and Romaniamentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Post‐Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania

Sikor

Stahl

Dorondel³

2009

Development and Change

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Since the demise of socialism, countries of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced intense negotiations over access and property. This article uses four case studies on struggles over forest in Albania and Romania to examine how these negotiations intersect with processes constituting authority. The cases demonstrate significant variations in the configurations of property and authority regarding forest, but they also reflect the influence of national politics in the two countries. In Albania, custom not only competes with the state as an institution sanctioning rights to forest but actually emerges as an alternative politico‐legal institution contesting state authority more broadly. In Romania, local struggles over forests play out the contestations between personalized and law‐based exercises of state authority at the national level. These insights suggest that due to their radical nature and simultaneous occurrence, negotiations over property and authority have challenged the position of post‐socialist states as primary politico‐legal institutions and have generated different exercises of state authority.

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Composer avec le risque : la frontière sud de l'Albanie entre politique des États et solidarités locales

Cited by 21 publications

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Discursive Representations of Asylum Seekers and Illegal Immigrants in Ireland

Discursive Representations of Asylum Seekers and Illegal Immigrants in Ireland

Artifacts of the Past as Traces of Memory. The Aromanian Cultural Heritage in the Balkans

Negotiating Post‐Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania

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