‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis
Post-print (lokagerð höfundar) 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...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/1242 2023-05-15T16:51:38+02:00 ‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis Loftsdóttir, Kristín Félags- og mannvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI) Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Social Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland 2017-12-14 240-253 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1242 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1414594 en eng Informa UK Limited Social Identities;25(2) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13504630.2017.1414594 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 1350-4630 1363-0296 (eISSN) https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1242 Social Identities doi:10.1080/13504630.2017.1414594 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Migration Crisis Niger Terrorism West-African Post-colonial Europe Eftirlendufræði Fólksflutningar (félagsfræði) Hryðjuverk info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/1242 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1414594 2022-11-18T06:51:46Z Post-print (lokagerð höfundar) 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. This work was supported by the University of Iceland Research Fund under Grant for the project Cosmopolitan Migrant Subjects: Migration from Niger to Europe; and Icelandic Center for Research (Rannís) [Grant number 163350-051]. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Social Identities 25 2 240 253 |
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Post-print (lokagerð höfundar) 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. This work was supported by the University of Iceland Research Fund under Grant for the project Cosmopolitan Migrant Subjects: Migration from Niger to Europe; and Icelandic Center for Research (Rannís) [Grant number 163350-051]. Peer Reviewed |
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