{"id":28158,"date":"2017-07-06T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/refugees-migrants-neither-both-categorical-fetishism-and-the-politics-of-bounding-in-europes-migration-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:04:51","slug":"refugees-migrants-neither-both-categorical-fetishism-and-the-politics-of-bounding-in-europes-migration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/refugees-migrants-neither-both-categorical-fetishism-and-the-politics-of-bounding-in-europes-migration-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe\u2019s \u2018migration crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>ABSTRACT<\/p>\n<p>The use of the categories \u2018refugee\u2019 and \u2018migrant\u2019 to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international protection has featured strongly during Europe\u2019s \u2018migration crisis\u2019 and has been used to justify policies of exclusion and containment. Drawing on interviews with 215 people who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece in 2015, our paper challenges this \u2018categorical fetishism\u2019, arguing that the dominant categories fail to capture adequately the complex relationship between political, social and economic drivers of migration or their shifting significance for individuals over time and space. As such it builds upon a substantial body of academic literature demonstrating a disjuncture between conceptual and policy categories and the lived experiences of those on the move. However, the paper is also critical of efforts to foreground or privilege \u2018refugees\u2019 over \u2018migrants\u2019 arguing that this reinforces rather than challenges the dichotomy\u2019s faulty foundations. Rather those concerned about the use of categories to marginalise and exclude should explicitly engage with the politics of bounding, that is to say, the process by which categories are constructed, the purpose they serve and their consequences, in order to denaturalise their use as a mechanism to distinguish, divide and discriminate.<\/p>\n<p>Crawley, H and Skleparis, D (2017) \u201cRefugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe\u2019s \u2018migration crisis\u2019\u201d Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI:10.1080\/1369183X.2017.1348224<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/1369183X.2017.1348224\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT The use of the categories \u2018refugee\u2019 and \u2018migrant\u2019 to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international protection has featured strongly during Europe\u2019s \u2018migration crisis\u2019 and has been used to justify policies of exclusion and containment. Drawing on interviews with 215 people who crossed the Mediterranean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"program":[22],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44640,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28158\/revisions\/44640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28158"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=28158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}