Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values? – Elzbieta M. Gozdiak, Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter (Eds.)
Editor(s): Elzbieta M. Gozdiak, Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 312 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Europe, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, The United Kingdom (UK), Ventimiglia
Topic: Asylum & Refugee System, Borders, Crisis / Crises, Ethics & Morality, Human Rights, Migrants, Racism & Anti-Racism, Responses to Refugees, Social Norms
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum.
Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of immigration, countries with a more recent refugee arrivals, and countries that want to keep refugees at bay and refuse to admit even the smallest number of asylum seekers. Contributors in the book explore the roles which national and local governments, civil society, and community leaders play in these debates and practices, and ask what strategies are being used to educate refugees about European values, and to facilitate their integration.
At a time when debates on refugees and European norms continue to rage, this book provides an important interdisciplinary analysis which will be of interest to European policy makers, and researchers across the fields of migration, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and political science.
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. European norms and values and the refugee crisis: issues and challenges – ELZBIETA M. GOZDZIAK AND IZABELLA MAIN
2. Echoes of memories of forced displacement: the case of the Greek island of Lesvos – MARILENA ANASTASOPOULOU
3 Against the expansion of racism: the experience of the Camp des Milles – BERNARD MOSSÉ
4 The Moral Panic Button: construction and consequences – MÁRTON GERŐ AND ENDRE SIK
5 Abolishing asylum and violating the human rights of refugees. Why is it tolerated?: the case of Hungary in the EU – FELIX BENDER
6 Between closing borders to refugees and welcoming Ukrainian workers: Polish migration law at the crossroads – WITOLD KLAUS
7 Debating deportation detention in Germany: the many faces of the rule of law – JOHANNA CAROLINE GÜNTHER
8 Integration by contract and the ‘values of the Republic’: investigating the French State as a value promoter for migrants (2003–2016) – MYRIAM HACHIMI ALAOUI AND JANIE PÉLABAY
9 Box-ticking exercise or real inclusion? challenges of including refugees’ perspectives in EU policy – ROBERT LARRUINA AND HALLEH GHORASHI
10 Being a ‘refuge-city’: welcoming rhetorics in Paris and Barcelona – LOUISE HOMBERT
11 Holding course: civil society organizations’ value expressions in
the Swedish legislative consultation system before and after 2015 – ROBERTO SCARAMUZZINO AND BRIGITTE SUTER
12 Community-based sponsorship of refugees resettling in the UK: British values in action? – JOANNE VAN SELM
13 Crisis and Willkommenskultur: civil society volunteering for refugees in Germany – THERESE HERRMANN
14 Cosmopolitanism at the crossroads: Swedish immigration policy after the 2015 refugee crisis – CHRISTIAN FERNÁNDEZ
15 (Un)Deserving refugees: contested access to the ‘community of value’ in Italy – CHIARA MARCHETTI
16 Christian charity as the last line of defense for migrants in Ventimiglia – JUAN PABLO ARIS ESCARCENA
17 Proclaiming and practicing pro-immigration values in Poland: a case study of Poznan – IZABELLA MAIN
18 Concluding thoughts – ELZBIETA M. GOZDZIAK, AND BRIGITTE SUTER
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Elżbieta M. Goździak is both a migration scholar and a forced migrant. She left her native Poland in 1984 with a one-way passport. Currently, she is Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, Poland and Research Professor at the OsloMet University in Oslo, Norway. She is also CSJ Fellow for Refugee Engaged Scholarship at Georgetown University. She teaches as an Ajunct professor in STIA and CULP. She was Research Professor at ISIM in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (2002-2018). In the Fall of 2016 she served as the George Soros Visiting Chair in Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Formerly, she was Editor-in-Chief of International Migration and held a senior position with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the US Department of Health and Human Services. She taught at Howard University in the Social Work with Displaced Populations Program and managed a program area on admissions and resettlement of refugees in industrialized countries for the Refugee Policy Group. Her research agenda focuses on refugee and immigrant integration, global health and humanitarianism, child migration, and human trafficking.
Source: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RjGYAA0/elzbieta-gozdziak
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Izabella Main is a socio-cultural anthropologist and historian. She received her doctoral degree from Central European University in Budapest in 2002. She also undertook post-graduate studies in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2004 she works as an assistant professor (adjunct) in the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. In 2009 Main became a member of the Centre for Migration Studies in Adam Mickiewicz University.
Source: https://iasfm.org/izabella-main-biography/
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Brigitte Suter is assistant professor in international migration and ethnic relations at Malmö University. Her research interests include (im)mobility, social networks, ethnography, refugee resettlement, the mobility of skilled migrants in the global economy, as well as the role of norms and rights in the field of migration and integration.
Source: https://www.intellectbooks.com/brigitte-suter
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