Introduction: The Racialized Refugee Regime

Kyriakides, Christopher; Taha, Dina M.; Charles, Carlo Handy; Torres, Rodolfo D.

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“…After all, the overwhelming majority of the world's camp populations are found in, or hold citizenship of, formerly or currently colonised countries (as in Palestine). This circumstance reflects much wider geographies of exclusion, not least those that underpin “the racialized refugee regime” (Kyriakides et al, 2019; see also Daley, 2021; Mayblin, 2017).…”

Section: Methodological Positioning: the Coloniality Of Camps And Cam...mentioning

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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

Weima

Brankamp

2022

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Camps and camp-like spaces have long sparked interest among geographers, sociologists, historians, architects, political scientists, and anthropologists alike. This scholarship has varyingly conceived of the camp as a modern technology of humanitarian aid and population management, a thanatopolitical institution, a site of protest and resistance, a metaphor of sovereign exclusion, or a means of colonial expansion, and more. However, comparatively few studies have explicitly focused on the methodologies of actually doing research in/on camps. The characteristics of camps, that make them of interest to researchers in the first place, generate methodological, ethical, and practical challenges for conducting research. Consequently, this special section contributes to an already multifaceted and growing body of camp studies literature by dwelling specifically on the "how" of studying camps. It does so by drawing on broader critical methodologies

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Section: Methodological Positioning: the Coloniality Of Camps And Cam...mentioning

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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

Weima

Brankamp

2022

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“…Therefore, in delineating the social media-migration nexus, the concept of racialization is useful, as it refers to the ‘signification of some biological characteristic(s) as the criterion by which a collectivity may be identified…. [T] he collectivity is represented as having a natural, unchanging origin and status, and therefore as being inherently different.’ ( Kyriakides et al, 2019 : 3).…”

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Migrant Racialization on Twitter during a border and a pandemic crisis

Avraamidou

Eftychiou²

2021

International Communication Gazette

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This work examines how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the migration debate on Twitter. Through co-hashtag network analysis, time-frequency and content analysis, it shows that the pandemic was related with positive (humanitarian) and negative (threat) stances about migration. The positive side focused on the need to protect refugees stranded at camps in Greece from COVID-19. The negative focused on the Greek-Turkish land-border crisis (Evros crisis), using COVID-19 to reinforce migrants as racialized others. These findings fit the problematization of positive and negative migrant representations in the Global north as Eurocentric. In the case of camps, refugees fit well within the victim/helpless frame, justifying humanitarianism, this time on health grounds. Regarding the border crisis, refugees also fit the Eurocentric frame of violent/male/inferior other who could spread a deadly virus. Overall, COVID-19 intertwined with migration in Twitter debates, reinforcing the racialized, Eurocentric representational field on migrants from the Global south.

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“…The representations of refugees in the media inform public understanding of what a ‘refugee’ is (Kyriakides et al, 2019) and policy decisions over who to include or to exclude (Anderson, 2013; Satzewich, 1991), and in turn, affect the membership, substantive rights and integration of refugees in the nation (Anderson, 2013; Goldring and Landolt, 2013; Silverstein, 2005).…”

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“…On the other hand, another form of subject-making portrays refugees as vulnerable, involuntary victims whose activities are orientated around a conflict-induced ‘bare life’ existence (Fassin, 2011; Kyriakides et al, 2019). Through the discourse of humanitarianism, the victim narrative produces a fixed image of refugees as passive object without agency (Ticktin, 2016) and requires refugees to prove their ‘deservingness’ by demonstrating vulnerability and moral purity (Kyriakides, 2017; Kyriakides et al, 2018).…”

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Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK

2020

Current Sociology

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The media play a key role in informing public opinion during refugee crises. Representations of refugees in the media shape public understanding of what a ‘refugee’ is and policy decisions over who to include or to exclude. Although extensive literature has examined representations of refugees in news media, few systematic comparative investigations look at discourses across types of immigration countries. In this article, the author compares news coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK, to consider how media discourse is affected by a nation’s historical relationship with and current policies of immigration. The author follows existing literature in arguing that the dominant discourses in the newspapers racialize refugees through a ‘victim–pariah’ couplet, and further argues that this shared model of racialized representation serves the particular nation-building projects and asylum regimes in the two countries. In addition, a comparison between coverage in newspapers that represent divergent political orientations shows that news stories that attempt to ‘give voice’ to refugees are more prevalent in the more left-leaning newspapers in both countries. Nonetheless, these attempts to ‘re-humanize’ refugees do not invalidate the Orientalist image of refugees as passive victims without agency and history.

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Introduction: The Racialized Refugee Regime

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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

Migrant Racialization on Twitter during a border and a pandemic crisis

Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK

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