On migrants with migrants : migrations 5 years after Europe's migration "crisis"

Kurnik, Andrej (author), Toplak, Cirila (author)

In which ways can we theorise the recent illegalised migrations in Europe? This article considers theoretical novelties in the field of migration studies that have emerged since the mass migration into the European Union seen in 2015. Methodologically, the authors combine critical (discursive) analysis with the testing of certain still relevant theoretical concepts that have yet to be applied in migration studies, based on fieldwork along the Balkan Route over the last 5 years. The analysis has shown that the defining and decisive feature of the recent illegalised migrations, insufficiently considered by migrations scholarship, is the political subjectivity and agency of the migrants. Recognition of such agency makes migration the site of the critique of global inequalities and the site of inclusive social transformation

• Language: English
• Keywords: migrations, political theory, state, Balkan migrant route
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 30.06.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 322-340, 490
• Numbering: Letn. 58, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138777
• UDC: 321.01:314.151.3-054.73(4)
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.58.2.322-340
• COBISS.SI-ID: 70730243
• Publication date in RUL: 17.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: O migrantih z migranti

Abstract

Kako teoretizirati aktualne ilegalizirane migracije v Evropo? Članek obravnava teoretske novosti v polju migracijskih študij od množičnih migracij v Evropsko unijo leta 2015. Metodološko avtorja povežeta kritično (diskurzivno) analizo s preizkusom še ne zajetih, a relevantnih konceptov v okviru migracijskih študij na osnovi terenskega raziskovanja na balkanski poti v zadnjih petih letih. Opravljena analiza je pokazala, da sta določujoči in odločilni prvini aktualnih ilegaliziranih migracij politična subjektiviteta in politično delovanje migrantov, kar v študijah migracij še ni zadostno pripoznano. S takšnim pripoznanjem postane migracija mesto artikulacije kritike globalnih odnosov neenakosti in mesto vključujoče družbene transformacije

• Keywords: migracije, politična teorija, država, Balkanska migracijska pot