Between citizen and bogus asylum seeker: management of migration in the EU through the technology of morality

Kmak, Magdalena

doi:10.1080/13504630.2015.1071703

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“…Migration thus appears to be a phenomenon inciting fear in both Finland and in Europe at large. It seems somewhat contradictory that the mobility of EU citizens is an activity safeguarded with the status of a fundamental right, whilst other forms of mobility are feared and sought to be controlled (Kmak 2015). Strengthening of the Union's external borders is also justified in relation to the internal free movement of the Schengen Area.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Asylum policy has become stricter and in practice asylum can only be sought in the territory of a particular country. This prompts those in need of help to apply to Europe with all possible means, as a result of which they are labelled as illegal migrants or bogus asylum seekers (Kmak 2015). Such 'othering' attitudes and expressions have received more attention in recent years and this article also contributes to this debate by analysing the discourses on different groups in EU textbooks.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Refugees and poor migrants (both extraand intra-European ones) are often characterised as a burden in the European debate, such that all countries should allegedly do their share (see e.g. Kmak 2015). European mobility and communality still seem to be to a great extent based on the exclusion of others and a construction of otherness in response to an ostensible threat coming from the outside.…”

Section: Carrera 2014)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A person seeking asylum is often labelled as an illegal migrant calculatedly looking for a better standard of living. Kmak describes the phenomenon, in a Foucauldian way, as moral technology, where the asylum-seeker is seen as a helpless victim, whilst EU citizens are seen as economically profiting, pragmatic actors (Kmak 2015). According to EU rules, recruitment policy should privilege EU citizens, which makes it harder for third-country citizens legally to come to work in Europe.…”

Section: Eurocentrism In Textbooks and Eu Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The privilege of free movement

Heinikoski

2019

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This article examines how free movement and mobility are represented in Finnish upper secondary level EU textbooks. There were three such books in use at the time of writing, published in 2007, 2010 and 2014. My methodology is based on the discourse-historical approach outlined by Ruth Wodak, focusing particularly on the various discursive strategies present in the books. I have divided the groups addressed into four levels of mobility thus; ‘EU movers’, ‘restricted EU movers’, ‘migrants’ and ‘refugees’. The EU movers were the most positively viewed group; their mobility was often related to work and studies. ‘Restricted EU movers’ refers to citizens of the countries that joined the EU in the twenty-first century, whose ‘invasion’ was allegedly feared by the older member states. Migrants outside the EU were described, inter alia, as a ‘flow of millions of poor people’ eager to enter Europe. Refugees, in turn, were conflated with people applying for asylum without valid grounds, creating a ‘refugee flow’ dealing with which member states needed to assist each other. Overall, this article concurs with the findings of previous studies: school books tend to present those moving within Europe as more agreeable, with less acceptable stereotypical characteristics being attached to extra-EU migrants and minority groups such as the Roma.

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The privilege of free movement

Heinikoski

2019

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“…At the same time, the concept of "poverty migration," which refers to the fact that individuals are running away from poverty and desperate future prospects, is now frequently circulated in both the media and policy spheres. From this perspective, the Roma are not considered "guestworkers" or even "labour migrants," but rather individuals seeking support from the social welfare system (Kmak, 2015;Castaneda, 2015). In September 2015, the Federal State of Bavaria set up a couple of combined reception and return centres for asylum seekers without prospects to remain, specifically designed for asylum seekers from the Western Balkan region.…”

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“Visiting” Close Kin Abroad: Migration Strategies of the Serbian Roma

Čvorović

Coe

2017

J. Disc.

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The Roma/Gypsies are the largest, poorest and youngest ethnic group in Europe. During the past decade, the Roma from Central and Eastern Europe were of considerable public concern due to a large inflow of Roma emigrants into Western European countries. Applications for international protection submitted by the Roma from the Western Balkans became a substantial part of the asylum case-load at the EU level. More recently, however, a new wave of migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, has found its way to Europe. As Serbia is classified as a safe country, Serbian nationals have limited chances of being awarded refugee status. Nevertheless undeterred, the Serbian Roma/Gypsies continue to travel to and apply for asylum in Western European countries. Using data from original fieldwork conducted among Serbian Roma women, we argue that their desire to travel and possibly reside in one of the more affluent Western European countries is connected to the fact that they have extensive kinship ties in those counties. Kinship ties, in brief, explain much of current Roma migration practices.

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After the reflexive turn in migration studies: Towards the doing migration approach

Amelina

2020

Population Space and Place

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What processes transform (im)mobile individuals into ‘migrants’ and geographic movements across political‐territorial borders into ‘migration’? Addressing this question, the article develops the doing migration approach that combines socio constructivist, praxeological and the sociology of knowledge and performativity perspectives. ‘Doing migration’ starts with the processes of social attribution that separate between ‘migrants’ and ‘nonmigrants’ and that are embedded into institutional, organisational and interactional routines which generate unique social order(s) of migration. Illustrating these conceptual ideas, the article provides insights into the elements of the contemporary European order of ‘migration’. The institutional routines contribute to the emergence of the European migration regime that includes narratives of economisation, securitisation and humanitarisation. The organisational routines of European migration order realise bordering, surveillance and othering contributing to the disciplining effects on those defined as ‘migrants’. Furthermore, the routines of daily face‐to‐face interactions generate various microforms of ‘migration’ by stigmatisation, while also giving the potential to resist the social attribution as ‘migrant’.

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Between citizen and bogus asylum seeker: management of migration in the EU through the technology of morality

Cited by 28 publications

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The privilege of free movement

The privilege of free movement

“Visiting” Close Kin Abroad: Migration Strategies of the Serbian Roma

After the reflexive turn in migration studies: Towards the doing migration approach

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