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- Darvishpour, Mehrdad, 1960-, et al.
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Securitisation of the Swedish migration policy and the situation for unaccompanied children
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Ingår i: Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe. - New York : Taylor & Francis Group. - 9781000916836 - 9781032268606 ; , s. 103-118
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sweden has been recognised as one of the most generous countries in terms of the governance of migration and asylum. The 2015 “refugee crisis” placed the Swedish migration and asylum system under extreme pressure when more than 163,000 refugees arrived in 2015. Like other EU members, Swedish migration policies have become gradually more restrictive, legitimised by the discourse of securitisation, whereby migration is addressed as a threat. By taking “securitisation” as a conceptual point of departure, the aim of this chapter is to analyse the official statements and non-official motives behind the securitisation turn of Sweden’s post-2015 migration policy and relate them to the vulnerable situation unaccompanied immigrants experienced when they came to Sweden in 2015 as refugees and asylum seekers. However, even if some of the interviewees had experienced racism and other negative attitudes and felt ill at ease waiting for their residency permit, unaccompanied immigrants are not necessarily vulnerable victims without the capacity and will to learn a new language, educate themselves and find a job.
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- Misheva, Vessela, et al.
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Framing the “exceptions to the rule” in analyses of responses to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic : A study of European poles involving Sweden and Bulgaria
- 2023
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Ingår i: Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe. - : Taylor & Francis. - 9781000916836 - 9781032268606 ; , s. 203-223
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Against the background of the great variety of interpretations of the diversity of responses to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter focuses on those responses that have been identified in research as “exceptions to the rule.” It comprises a two-country comparative study of the qualitative aspects of factors that have been responsible for the implementation of two radically different anti-pandemic policies that are termed here “liberal” and “restrictive.” The sample countries—Sweden and Bulgaria—were selected not simply as European democracies representative of the polar differences between persistent geo-political identities and cultural zones, but also as marking the poles of a continuum of measures capable of accommodating the entire variety of pandemic responses, from the most liberal to the most restrictive. Based on this analysis, a theoretical framework is developed that helps explain the underlying rationale of exceptions-to-the-rule in respect to anti-pandemic policies and approaches. This chapter identifies cultural and societal orientations, the levels and orientations of social and epistemic trust, and the values and frames that shape the perception of pandemic reality as the primary elements that need to be taken into account when forging anti-pandemic policies suitable for democracies.
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- Zamorano Llena, Carmen, 1973-, et al.
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Introduction : Fear, anxiety, and crisis. Europe and emotions in the twenty-first century
- 2023
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Ingår i: Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 9781000916836 - 9781032268606 ; , s. 1-19
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter defines the main features of the core concepts in the collection, namely the dominant discourses of fear, anxiety, and crisis in a twenty-first-century global and, particularly, European context. To do so, it situates the study of these public emotions within the theoretical context of the turn to affects and emotions. One of the innovative aspects of this chapter is that it provides a succinct overview of the recent ascent of the scholarly interest in emotions and affects and distinguishes between these two turns, unlike the current trend which tends to conflate them as synonyms of essentially the same phenomenon. The chapter also identifies what is distinct about the present “culture of fear” and its relationship with the public spread of anxiety. In terms of the discourse of crisis, it is associated with the concept of “moral panics,” which despite its conceptualisation almost five decades ago is still recognised as a pertinent term to analyse affective responses to contemporary crises, such as those relating to COVID-19 or climate change. The introduction concludes with a presentation of the rationale and a presentation of the internal coherence of the collection.
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