Vigilantism against migrants and minorities in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic

Mareš, Miroslav; Milo, Daniel S.

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“…Patrols in eastern Germany, at the Polish border (Geiler 2021), and "refugee hunters" in Bulgaria (Ilieva, this issue) started to police national borders seen as problematically porous. In Hungary (Mireanu 2013(Mireanu , 2015Póczik and Sárik 2019;Szombati 2018), Bulgaria (Stoynova and Dzhekova 2019), Slovakia, and the Czech Republic (Mareš and Milo 2019), far-right patrols blamed the Roma for crime, and in numerous cases they meted out violent retribution. Similarly, the Traveller (2L) community in Ireland was subjected to paramilitary vigilantism (Donnelly-Drummond 2014).…”

Section: Times Of Heightened Vigilance: Th E Rise Of Informal Policin...mentioning

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“The State Cannot Protect Us”

Ivasiuc

2022

Conflict and Society

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Informal policing has recently been on the rise in Europe: in several countries, “concerned citizens” have mobilized for the protection of their neighborhoods. This article examines the production and mobilization of vigilance in the negotiations around practices of informal policing in Italy and Germany and analyzes the relational way in which discourses and practices of vigilantism make and unmake the state. Grounded in research on practices of informal policing in Italy and Germany, the article argues that practices of vigilance manifested in informal policing are simultaneously and ambivalently state-(un)making practices. What is obtained in the process is an ambivalent regime of vigilance.

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“The State Cannot Protect Us”

Ivasiuc

2022

Conflict and Society

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“…The 2017 Report mentions that an "unregistered organisation whose members were military sympathisers continued to hold exercises, recruit new members and present its activities to the public" (Report 2017) -clearly referring to the Slovak Conscripts organisation (Slovenskí branci). Despite these activities, combined with the conducting of vigilante-style patrols and collaboration with the Russian motorcycle gang, Night Wolves, the state was not able to react effectively against the Slovak Conscripts ( Mareš and Milo 2019).…”

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The construction of threats by intelligence agencies: analysing the language of official documents in Slovakia

Kovanič

2021

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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Intelligence agencies play a prominent role in the production of knowledge about national security threats and their evaluation. This function is not just a value-neutral technical activity, but a social and political action. The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which the Slovak Information Service, an intelligence agency responsible for the protection of national security, discursively constructs security threats and assigns enemy images to specific actors. The analysis was conducted on the publicly available parts of the agency's Annual Reports. It utilised qualitative document analysis, supplemented by quantitative analysis of the frequency of use of specific keywords. The analysis, which identified the main threats connected to internal security, is constructed in a manner which connects terrorism with migration and the Muslim faith, assigning terror identities to specific groups. The agency's constructions of internal threats were also utilised in the political discourse. Moreover, securitisation rhetoric was used in connection to the movements promoting human rights and fighting fascism, labelling them as left-wing extremists. In the field of foreign threats, their construction depends on both international developments and domestic political dynamics.

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‘Police volunteering’ in Central and Eastern Europe

Krulík,

Klíma

2024

Cogent Social Sciences

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Vigilantism against migrants and minorities in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic

Cited by 3 publications

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“The State Cannot Protect Us”

“The State Cannot Protect Us”

The construction of threats by intelligence agencies: analysing the language of official documents in Slovakia

‘Police volunteering’ in Central and Eastern Europe

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