The European Union and the refugee “crisis”: Inclusion, challenges, and responses

Sambaraju, Rahul; McVittie, Chris

doi:10.1002/casp.2306

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“…Research using discourse‐based approaches has engaged with concerns over the increasing invisibility of race in public contexts, as racial inequities have continued in more recent times (Augoustinos & Every, 2007a, 2007b; Billig, 1988; Wetherell & Potter, 1992). More recent research has increasingly engaged with the production and management of anti‐migrant prejudice (Goodman & Burke, 2010; Sambaraju & McVittie, 2017). Substantial findings from these various approaches attest to the successful engagement of social psychology with a wide range of concerns.…”

Section: Resistance To Mobilizing Racementioning

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Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism

Sambaraju

McVittie

2021

British J Social Psychol

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Social psychological research into racism has, to date, concerned itself mainly with racism as a form of prejudice. Different approaches to the study of racism have thus originated in understandings and theorizing of prejudice more generally. A particular focus of such work has been the apparent decline, within contemporary society, of instances of what might readily be recognized or treated as prejudice in public settings, and the explanation for this decline in, or absence of, explicit prejudice. Recent events, however, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, but also elsewhere, have been marked by overt concerns with racism. These events, public debate, and counterarguments, all suggest that concerns with race and racism have become more manifest in present society. It is this context that provides the background for this special section.The papers in this special section include studies that offer a social psychological examination of contemporary engagement with race and racism. The studies here examine and interrogate the social psychological significance of race and racism in settings and contexts where these are not merely salient but are explicit. While it is hard to make claims about whether occurrences of racism have increased or forms of racism have changed in recent times, it is certainly the case that race and racism are more visibly part of our social lives (Burke, 2017).Events such as the police killings of Black persons in the United States have been ongoing for a long period in various forms (Ward, 2018). However, the recent shootings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among others, resulted in the rekindling of a global movement to tackle racism across countries and contexts (BlackLivesMatter, 2020;Chugtai, 2020). Outside of policing, areas such as sports, academia, and public spaces are increasingly subject to scrutiny for how race and racism are dealt with in these settings. There have been growing calls for the removal of statues of controversial historical figures implicated in potentially racist activities (Treisman, 2021); there are increasing calls for acknowledging the role of race in various sports (Ali, 2020;Rainford-Brent, 2021); and in academia, there is an institutional recognition of racism (Subbaraman, 2020). Irrespective of the reasons for the prominence of race and racism, it is the case that contemporary social life in the 'Western' world has to contend with race and racism, and the implications of this for our behaviours.Social psychological work on race and racism has traversed the full range of sociopolitical contexts that people find themselves in. Researchers from various approaches and methodologies continue to be keenly concerned with various aspects of race and racism. Throughout the history of social psychological work, approaches have reflected not only prevalent theories but also ongoing societal concerns. For instance, the work of Allport (1954) and the subsequent approaches of 'subtle prejudice' were developed in the context of the post-Jim Crow e...

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Section: Resistance To Mobilizing Racementioning

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Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism

Sambaraju

McVittie

2021

British J Social Psychol

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“…So far, only a few studies have analysed political discourse related to the “refugee crisis” of 2015. The focus in these studies has mainly been on discursive practices of inclusion and exclusion in elite and public settings (Sambaraju & McVittie, ). One study (Kirkwood, ) focussed on sympathetic categorizations of refugees, namely, on the humanization of refugees in parliamentary debates in the UK.…”

Section: Discursive Construction Of Asylum Seekers and Refugeesmentioning

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Managing stake and accountability in Prime Ministers' accounts of the “refugee crisis”: A longitudinal analysis

Sakki

Pettersson

2018

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Taking a (critical) discursive psychological approach, the present study explores the identity management of the Finnish and Swedish Prime Ministers (PM) in relation to the “refugee crisis” and their countries' asylum policies. By taking a longitudinal approach and analysing the PMs' accounts of the “refugee crisis” from 1‐year period, we focused on the ways rhetorical devices related to ethos, logos, and pathos were used to manage the issues of stake and accountability, as well as on the ways in which categories were worked up to serve particular functions. Our comparative analysis demonstrated significant similarities in the Finnish and Swedish PMs' talk, especially with regard to the transfer from a discourse of pathos and ethos, describing refugees in terms of individualism and humaneness, to a discourse of logos, emphasizing rationality, justifying sharpened immigration policies, and homogenizing refugees. However, the different historical paths of the two countries' immigration policies and the specific political situation had implications for the PMs' discourse. The Swedish PM could feasibly scapegoat the Sweden Democrats and the political right in opposition, whereas the Finnish PM, with the populist radical right as a government partner, engaged more heavily in distinctions between “real, needing” and “false, undeserving” refugees. We argue for the longitudinal approach in the analysis of political discourse, as such an approach allows to identify the changes and continuities in the discourse, as well as to grasp the dialogical interplay between the discourse and its context.

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“…Surprising as this maybe those who are fleeing from war, persecution, or uninhabitable climate are rarely welcomed with open arms and given shelter, especially in the more well‐to‐do parts of world. Discursive psychologists examine this in terms of justifying the exclusion or limited inclusion of help given to refugees (for a review see Sambaraju & McVittie, 2017; Sambaraju et al, 2017). In this paper, we focus then on a curious case where help and inclusion is straightforwardly offered: refugees fleeing Ukraine or what we are calling ‘Ukrainian refugees’.…”

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‘All of a sudden for no reason they've been displaced’: Constructing the ‘contingent refugee’ in early media reports on the Ukrainian refugees

Sambaraju

Shrikant

2023

British J Social Psychol

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This paper analyzes descriptions of Ukrainian refugees in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Findings of previous research on news media descriptions of refugees point to problematic descriptions of refugees that downgrade their deservingness of refuge and treat refugee status as an inherent feature of fleeing individuals instead of as contingent on external circumstances. However, there is a widespread perception that Ukrainian refugees are being reported on in a more positive light. We therefore examine how news media describe these refugees. Our corpus includes English media news coverage from February 25, 2022, to March 25, 2022, the initial period of the invasion. A discursive psychological analysis of news interactions where hosts elicit information from correspondents about current ongoings with Ukrainian refugees shows that Ukrainian refugees are constructed as vulnerable, and their actions are treated as reasonable given the situation. These descriptions construct Ukrainian refugees as those who are only contingently refugees and legitimate help‐giving by other parties. Our findings, therefore, highlight distinct, previously unanalyzed ways that refugees are constructed: contingent refugees. We discuss implications of our findings for understanding refugee inclusion and exclusion.

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The European Union and the refugee “crisis”: Inclusion, challenges, and responses

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism

Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism

Managing stake and accountability in Prime Ministers' accounts of the “refugee crisis”: A longitudinal analysis

‘All of a sudden for no reason they've been displaced’: Constructing the ‘contingent refugee’ in early media reports on the Ukrainian refugees

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