The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political Asylum

Peters, Michael A.; Besley, Tina

doi:10.1080/00131857.2015.1100903

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“…The already published literature (Baldacchino and Sammut, 2015;Carpenter, 2015;Carrera and Lannoo, 2015;Cooper, 2015;Hann, 2015;Hildebrandt, 2015;Martin, 2016;Mertes, 2015;Peters and Besley, 2015;Stewart, 2015) could not foresee that just as the Calendar Year 2016 began, international publics could read in the global media 1 that hundreds of women celebrating New Year's Eve in one of the major cities of Germany, Cologne, became victims of mass sexual assault by "men with North African and Middle Eastern appearances", as the German newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" put it." 2 Most German politicians have been careful in their initial responses to the Cologne events so as to avoid playing into the hands of what is most often being called in Europe nowadays "right-wing Islamophobias".…”

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Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

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Heshmati

2016

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Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

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Heshmati

2016

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“…Although the numbers of monthly arrivals have been relatively stable for several years, this phenomenon has become to be perceived as a national emergency, regularly making the news headlines and feeding the narrative of anti-immigration political parties, such as the former independentist 'Lega Nord' as well as, more recently, the populist '5 Stars' movement. Like in most other European countries, the rise of these stances has seen the consolidation of immigration as one of the defining themes in all political elections (Peters andBesley, 2015: 1371). Irrespectively of who is in government, state migration policies have become increasingly restrictive, aiming to protect labour markets, limit access to social services and expel those unwanted (Ambrosini and Van Der Leun, 2015;Peters and Besley, 2015).…”

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Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily

D’Angelo

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a major challenge for the whole European Union. What has been often labelled as a 'refugee crisis' is first and foremost a crisis of international politics and the result of inadequate response mechanisms at national and local level. This paper focuses on the case of Sicily, the second main area of arrival, after Greece, when migration to Mediterranean reached its peak.The history of the Italian island has been marked by dramatic shipwrecks and scandals concerning the management of some reception centres. Since Autumn 2015, however, Sicily has also seen the rapid implementation of a new approach based on the creation of 'hotspots': designated areas for the rapid separation of those deemed as economic migrants from 'genuine asylum seekers'. In the view of some observers, this has made Italy into a model of migration management, as opposed to the 'chaotic' situation of the Greek islands. However, the 'hotspot approach' has been also criticized for being engrained on practices that many deem illegal by both national and international standards. Migrants are filtered largely on the basis of national and racial lines and those who are not allowed to stay receive a 'deferred expulsion' which in effect condemns them to an illegal status on the Italian soil. Informed by findings from an ESRC-funded research project (EVI-MED)which included analysis of official statistics and policy documents and interviews with local activists and practitionersthis paper examines this complex scenario, exploring the social, legal and human implications of the refugees' reception system in Italy.

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“…The rise of neofascist parties in Europe is often seen as a consequence of the mass 'refugee problem' of immigrants in Syria, Libya and North African states who are fleeing war or conflict, often instigated by the US and allies. Fascist parties in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Italy, Greece, Spain and other European countries have become extremely xenophobic insisting on limits to immigration and increased militarized borders (Peters & Besley, 2015).…”

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‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari – the social pathology of fascism in the 21^stcentury

Peters

2020

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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The strategic adversary is fascism … the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. It's too easy to be antifascist on the molar level, and not even see the fascist inside you, the fascist you yourself sustain and nourish and cherish with molecules both personal and collective.-Michael Foucault, Preface to the English edition, Anti-Oedipus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 1983 [1972].

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The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political Asylum

Cited by 18 publications

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Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily

‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari – the social pathology of fascism in the 21^stcentury

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The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political Asylum

Cited by 18 publications

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Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

Islamism and gender relations in the Muslim world as reflected in recent World Values Survey data

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily

‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari – the social pathology of fascism in the 21stcentury

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