Title: | ‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis |
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Date: | 2017-12-14 |
Language: | English |
Scope: | 240-253 |
University/Institute: | Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
School: | Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Social Sciences (UI) |
Department: | Félags- og mannvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI) |
Series: | Social Identities;25(2) |
ISSN: | 1350-4630 1363-0296 (eISSN) |
DOI: | 10.1080/13504630.2017.1414594 |
Subject: | Migration; Crisis; Niger; Terrorism; West-African; Post-colonial Europe; Eftirlendufræði; Fólksflutningar (félagsfræði); Hryðjuverk |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1242 |
Citation:Loftsdóttir, K. (2019). ‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis. Social Identities, 25(2), 240-253. doi:10.1080/13504630.2017.1414594
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Abstract:Migration has become a key issue in the contemporary European context, with depictions of
Europe as under ‘attack’ due to the mass movement of uprooted populations, especially
from Africa and the Middle East. The current sentiment of Europe in crisis calls for a deeper
understanding of how the idea of Europe is configured. This article focuses on the idea of
“Europe” as seen from the point of view of Nigerien men who are living in Brussels without
residency permits. Their voices reveal some of the gaps in contemporary discourses
concerning crises and Europe’s predicament, especially in terms of terror and refugees.
Their narratives point to how current debates on migration and crisis tends to rely on an
image of a disconnected world, which obfuscate Europe’s historical interconnections with
those now seeking entrance into Europe. Muslim migrants in particular are regularly
portrayed as being incompatible with modernity, reflecting the persistent refusal to
acknowledge their coevalness in Fabian’s [2014. Time and the other: How anthropology
makes its object. New York: Columbia University Press] sense, that is to say their coexistence
in the same time and space. One aspect of shared coexistence is “digitalized connectivity”
where media representations of Europe in crisis are an integral part of the lives of these
migrant men as others living in Europe.
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Description:Post-print (lokagerð höfundar)
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