The European refugee crisis and the ignorance of framing

Mica, Adriana; Horolets, Anna; Pawlak, Mikołaj; Kubicki, Paweł

doi:10.4324/9781351212595-5

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“…In the context of the European refugee crisis Mica et al . [2021] analyze how certain topics were emphasized or omitted within dominant narratives in Poland, Hungary and Romania, affecting power positions within these countries but also within the EU at large. Contributing to the puzzle of why recent crises have hardly fostered any substantial change, the authors propose to consider how authorities both project and ignore the future.…”

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Back to the Future. Sociological Perspectives on Expectations, Aspirations and Imagined Futures

Suckert¹

2022

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Since the 1990s sociology has rediscovered a theme already present in the discipline’s foundational theories: the salience of future perceptions for social action. This article provides an overview of “the sociology of imagined futures”, a diverse but still scattered research field explicitly engaged with expectations, aspirations and future orientations. A review of recent scholarship emphasizes how an imagined future perspective is related to a wide range of topics and allows for innovative vantage points on persisting sociological research concerns, such as inequality, social identities, agency, coordination, power or understanding innovation and change. By systematically highlighting these contributions, but also by pointing to promising lacunae and perspectives that merit further development, this article shows how a reorientation of sociological research “back to the future” seems a promising way forward.

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Back to the Future. Sociological Perspectives on Expectations, Aspirations and Imagined Futures

Suckert¹

2022

Arch. eur. sociol.

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“…In general, the COVID-19 pandemic was perceived in the public and political domain as a potential window of opportunity for policy change (Kingdon, 1995) and seen as a chance to produce new evidence, learn, raise awareness and even advance policy change regarding the position of migrant workers (Mica et al. , 2021).…”

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“…argue that “the ignorance of the important aspects of the refugee problem (human rights violations by some of the asylum policies, etc.) seem to reproduce, though in another form and with other issues at stake” (Mica et al. , 2021).…”

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State of care for EU mobile workers' rights in the Dutch meat sector in times of, and beyond, COVID-19

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PurposeWith a focus on the position of EU mobile workers in the Dutch meat industry, this article discusses the multi-level State efforts to enhance protection of workers who experienced limited protection of existing State and private enforcement institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic, with virus outbreaks at Dutch meat plants, fuelled public and political will to structurally improve these workers' precarious work and living conditions. Yet, the process of policy change is slow. The authors show it is the gradual transformation in the institutional environment that the State needs to counter to become more protective for EU mobile workers.Design/methodology/approachUsing the gradual institutional change approach and the concept of State ignorance, the authors examine State responses drawing on interviews with expert stakeholders in the public and private domain, public administration records and newspaper articles.FindingsThrough knowledge creation, boosted social dialogue mechanisms, enhanced enforcement capacity and new housing legislation, the Dutch State focuses on countering gradual institutional change through which existing institutions lost their effectiveness as protectors of EU mobile workers. The organization of work is, nevertheless, not (yet) fundamentally addressed with tighter public legislation.Originality/valueThe findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the role of the State as multifaceted actor in institutional change processes towards increased protection for EU mobile workers.

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“…The larger camp became mobilized in its negative attitudes toward migrants from the Middle East, while the smaller camp became mobilized along the culture of welcoming refugees. Political leaders invested much effort in strategic ignorance, dragging attention away from the suffering of refugees and pointing to the alleged threats of their arrival (Mica, Horolets, Pawlak, & Kubicki, 2020).…”

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“…However, it is not just a simple lack of knowledge of individuals, a matter of the ignorance of individuals who are unable to recognize the context and conditions in the places from which people are fleeing. It is also a lack of knowledge strategically organized on the collective level to mobilize the electorate or shift public attention, a matter of ignorance that is strategically organized by spreading fake news and fearmongering to gain politically from the moral panic concerning the migrants (Mica et al, 2020).…”

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