L’accueil en crise : pratiques discursives et actions politiques

Calabrese, Laura; Gaboriaux, Chloé; Veniard, Marie

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“…asylum in host countries unprepared to fulfil their legal obligations towards newcomers (Calabrese, Gaboriaux, and Veniard 2022). In these contexts, the presentation of numerical evidence on supposedly "irregular" or "illegal" migration plays a role in advancing securitisation policies (Bigo 2001).…”

Section: Irregular Migrants and Refugees: Bridging Research On Border...mentioning

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Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”

Savatic,

Thiollet,

Mesnard

et al. 2024

International Migration Review

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Sudden rises in migration across the borders of the Global North have persistently attracted substantial media attention and fueled hostility toward “irregular migrants” and “bogus refugees.” While existing qualitative studies have extensively criticized the migrant-refugee distinction, we offer unique quantitative evidence of how migration numbers and labels construct impressions of increased irregular migration while in fact creating “fake illegals.” We conduct a two-stage mixed-method analysis, demonstrating first that data on “irregular/illegal border crossings” (IBCs) published by Frontex have become an authoritative source of information on migration flows cited in a corpus of mainstream news media articles. We then posit that, while persecutions and violence in countries of origin may trigger migration, it is policies in destination states that determine who “is” and “isn’t” a refugee. In turn, we develop a novel method to divide IBCs into those who would likely obtain asylum in 31 European destination states (“likely refugees”) and those who would not (“likely irregular migrants”) across time given asylum acceptance rates by nationality. We estimate that between 2009 and 2021 most border crossers labeled as “irregular/illegal” (55.4%) were actually “likely refugees,” a proportion we estimate to be 75.5% at the peak of arrivals in 2015. Thus, we find that sudden and large increases in border crossings concentrated in space likely concern forced rather than irregular migrants. Altogether, our constructivist approach reveals how migration data and categories both influence and are influenced by securitized border policies and that, in this respect, borders start with numbers.

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Section: Irregular Migrants and Refugees: Bridging Research On Border...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”

Savatic,

Thiollet,

Mesnard

et al. 2024

International Migration Review

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“…From that perspective, the 'whose crisis?' question has be answered by political activists and scholars as a crisis of states and state policies, a 'crisis of hospitality, or a crisis of solidarity, both between Europe and migrants, and between European states (Agustín & Jørgensen, 2019;Calabrese et al, 2022;Lendaro et al, 2019;Rajaram, 2015).…”

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Migration as Crisis

Cantat

Pécoud

Thiollet

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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Over the past decades, and across different contexts worldwide, migration has become inseparable from a narrative of crisis. This article analyses the connection between migration and crisis. It proposes a migration as crisis framework, designed to understand and analyze the emergence of this specific perception of migration, on the basis of an interplay between social “subjective” constructions of reality and “objective” migration dynamics. Migration as crisis rests upon a fragmented, changing, and contested assemblage of events, representations, and practices, which in turn call for specific ways of governing migration. The link between migration and crisis can be activated or not, and may or may not be correlated with empirical realities. By engaging with migration as crisis (rather than migration crisis), the article denaturalizes and historicizes the relationship between migration and crisis, and unpacks the processes through which key actors (including media, policymakers, civil society, and academics) frame migration as such.

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The Making of a Crisis: Migration and Polarization in the French Press

Reddy,

Thiollet

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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Mass inflows of immigrants are believed to create moral panic which impacts attitudes and votes. However, few scholars systematically explore the discursive construction of migration as a crisis in relation to actual migration flows. When and how does migration become a crisis? To answer this question, we draw on mixed methods harnessing automated text analysis, linear regression, as well as qualitative analysis, to analyze “migration crisis” discourses in a corpus extracted from French newspapers between 2008 and 2020. We locate the emergence of “migration crisis” discourses in the summer of 2015, absent massive inflows of migrants or refugees in France contrary to other European countries. We show that conservative newspapers overwhelmingly contribute to framing the crisis as one of “migration or migrant” rather than one of asylum or refugees despite the humanitarian nature of inflows. Furthermore, conservative newspapers do not only mention the migration crisis more than liberal ones, but they also create a sense of slow-burning or creeping migration crisis, as an undercurrent in media topics. Our fine-grained analysis of the case of the migration crisis in the French media offers theoretical and methodological inputs for an empirically grounded and constructivist theory of political crises.

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L’accueil en crise : pratiques discursives et actions politiques

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”

Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”

Migration as Crisis

The Making of a Crisis: Migration and Polarization in the French Press

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