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

Grigoriadis, Ioannis Ν.; Dilek, Esra

doi:10.1080/19448953.2018.1506280

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“…At the same time, Evros became increasingly incorporated into the European border regime. The accession of Greece to the European Union and later the Schengen Area rendered Evros a key entry point into Europe (Dimitriadi 2013;Grigoriadis and Dilek 2019). The expansion of border technologies reflected both the increasing importance of external borders within the EU migration governance as well as domestic policy imperatives (Fotiadis 2015;Grigoriadis and Dilek 2019).…”

Section: A History Of Violence At the Evros Bordermentioning

confidence: 99%

From Exception to Extra-Legal Normality: Pushbacks and Racist State Violence against People Crossing the Greek–Turkish Land Border

Karamanidou¹,

Kasparek²

2022

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The Greek–Turkish land border became the site of a border spectacle in March 2020, following the “opening” of the border by the Turkish government and its simultaneous closure by the Greek government. The ensuing violence was legitimated by narratives of exception and racist discourses hinging on the notions of “invasion” and “asymmetrical threats.” Yet, the spectacular and highly mediatized nature of the events of March 2020 hid the embeddedness and longevity of border violence in Evros, the area named after the river that constitutes the land border between Greece and Turkey. Drawing on qualitative research including fieldwork, interviews and document analysis, we focus on the practice of pushbacks as an enduring feature of the local border regime. We argue that pushbacks and other forms of violence should not be conceived merely as human rights violations and therefore aberrations to the laws and values of Europe and its states, but as normalized technologies of border management embedded in the racialized, violent border regimes of liberal states, exemplifying the inherent and unavoidable violence of borders.

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Section: A History Of Violence At the Evros Bordermentioning

confidence: 99%

From Exception to Extra-Legal Normality: Pushbacks and Racist State Violence against People Crossing the Greek–Turkish Land Border

Karamanidou¹,

Kasparek²

2022

SCJ

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“…As Athanasiou and Tsimouris (2013) write, the nationalised, possessive, white and heteronormative masculinity is incorporated as the cultural norm that regulates the contents of the human and the political. A norm which is The Significance of the Insignificant manufactured within multiple and interlocking scales across the borderline: the Eurodac system and the Dublin regulation (Tsianos and Kuster 2016); the building of the wall in the Evros border region and the opening of new detention centres in the Aegean (Grigoriadis and Dilek 2019); the advertising of the numbers of deportations and arrests by the Xenios Zeus police operation (Dalakoglou 2013); the TV news overflowing with words such as "illegality" and "criminality" while what one can actually see on the screen are three alleged migrants simply walking in the street (Lafazani 2018b); the daily pogroms, attacks and assaults against migrants, women and LGBTQI people in the centre of the city, for which usually no one gets charged or even arrested (Tsimouris 2014).…”

Section: Act 2: Public Spaces or Rejection And Acceptancementioning

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The Significance of the Insignificant: Borders, Urban Space, Everyday Life

Lafazani

2021

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This paper can be read as a film sequence, as each scene is based on the narration of a different everyday encounter in the city. The aim of the paper is to start a discussion on the multiple ways borders proliferate in the urban: not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper captures the multiple relations that connect the camp to the city square, the deportation regime to the train carriage, the newspaper headlines to the housing tenements in an attempt to work towards framing a broader theory of borders in geographical terms. Focusing on everyday encounters generates more complicated and nuanced understandings of subjectivity and power, while it brings to the fore the multiple borders that are simultaneously embodied and transcended, performed and challenged, established and subverted.

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“…For securitization theorists, the discourses of political elites have central importance in constructing security issues (Baysal, 2020, p. 4). As shown in various studies focusing on political discourse, political actors often portray migration and asylum as a social, cultural, and economic problem while migrants are often represented with negative connotations such as illegal aliens and criminals (Lynn & Lea, 2003;Van der Valk, 2003;Buonfino, 2004a;Canveren & Akgül-Durakçay, 2017;Grigoriadis & Dilek, 2018). Although leadership speech acts and parliamentary debates are often analyzed together in these studies, other scholars have highlighted the predominant role political leadership discourses have in securitization (Buzan et al, 1998;McDonald 2008;Balzaq et al 2016).…”

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Political Leaders’ Discourses and Securitization of Migration: A Comparison of Turkey and the United States

Kabacaoğlu¹,

Memişoğlu²

2021

JHS

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With the growing importance of human mobility in the global agenda since the early 1990s, international migration has increasingly evolved into a securitized phenomenon. This has also made international migrantsa prominent target group of security speech acts. The main objective of this study is to explore migration-security nexus in the context of political discourses. The paper brings a comparative perspective to the role of political leader discourses in the securitization of migration by examining the cases of the United States (USA), hosting the largest number of international migrants, and Turkey, the world’s top refugee hosting country. Through the analytical lens of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and securitization theory, the study unpacks the rhetoric used by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and American President Donald John Trump towards migrants/ asylum seekers. As the key findings demonstrate, the way the two leaders reflect the migration-security relationship to their speech acts significantly varies. President Trump associates migrants with security issues in multiple ways including social, political and economic spheres, while President Erdoğan’s discourse links migrants with security issues inthe economic realm, but his general discourse reflects a desecuritization approach. In both countries, it is observed that the discourses of political leaders concerning migrants and asylum seekers exert influence on public opinion.

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

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

From Exception to Extra-Legal Normality: Pushbacks and Racist State Violence against People Crossing the Greek–Turkish Land Border

From Exception to Extra-Legal Normality: Pushbacks and Racist State Violence against People Crossing the Greek–Turkish Land Border

The Significance of the Insignificant: Borders, Urban Space, Everyday Life

Political Leaders’ Discourses and Securitization of Migration: A Comparison of Turkey and the United States

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