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Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’

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dc.creator Sandoval García, Carlos
dc.date 2019-06-24T16:27:06Z
dc.date 2019-11-7T08:46:00Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-20T15:41:27Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-20T15:41:27Z
dc.identifier https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224
dc.identifier 1369-183X
dc.identifier http://repositorio.iis.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/376
dc.identifier 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1348224
dc.identifier.uri https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/214860
dc.description The use of the categories ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’ to differentiate between those on the move and the legitimacy, or otherwise, of their claims to international protection has featured strongly during Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ 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 ‘categorical fetishism’, 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 ‘refugees’ over ‘migrants’ arguing that this reinforces rather than challenges the dichotomy’s 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.
dc.description UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Sociales::Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source Journal of Eyhnic and migration studies, Vol. 44, Núm. 1, 2018: 48–64
dc.subject Refugiado
dc.subject Inmigrante
dc.subject Desplazamiento
dc.subject Flujos mixtos
dc.title Refugees, migrants, neither, both: categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’
dc.type artículo científico


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