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Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland

Society in the 21st century has experienced a variety of crises, from the fiscal crisis and the migration crisis to the pandemic and the inflation crisis. This paper aims to explore societal dangers of migrant crises narratives. This paper forms part of the Horizon 2020 MIMY research projects with a...

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Autor principal: Grabowska, Izabela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741586
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1084732
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description Society in the 21st century has experienced a variety of crises, from the fiscal crisis and the migration crisis to the pandemic and the inflation crisis. This paper aims to explore societal dangers of migrant crises narratives. This paper forms part of the Horizon 2020 MIMY research projects with an expert stakeholder Delphi study from seven European countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Luxembourg, Sweden and the UK. It takes also into account contextual international and national public opinion surveys. We formulated a number of societal dangers related to the migrant crisis narrative, which are not sharp and exclusive but invite further consideration: (1) Societal fatigue, which relates to a rapid change in societal moods, usually from a positive to a negative attitude toward migrants, but above all this danger is connected with an aid burnout in a civil society; (2) Othering, which includes normativity, the labeling of migrants, double or multiple standards in the treatment of migrants and refugees from various origins; the societal danger of othering contributes to societal divisions, polarizations, tensions and conflicts based on ethnicity, religion, race and gender; (3) Political functionality, whereby migration as a political construct serves as a “whipping boy” for politicians to divert public opinion from recurrent problems; it also involves the creation of piecemeal, reactionary, ad hoc public policies, and the overuse of a protocol of a state of emergency in order to bring about a centralization of political power.
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spelling pubmed-98898222023-02-02 Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland Grabowska, Izabela Front Sociol Sociology Society in the 21st century has experienced a variety of crises, from the fiscal crisis and the migration crisis to the pandemic and the inflation crisis. This paper aims to explore societal dangers of migrant crises narratives. This paper forms part of the Horizon 2020 MIMY research projects with an expert stakeholder Delphi study from seven European countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Luxembourg, Sweden and the UK. It takes also into account contextual international and national public opinion surveys. We formulated a number of societal dangers related to the migrant crisis narrative, which are not sharp and exclusive but invite further consideration: (1) Societal fatigue, which relates to a rapid change in societal moods, usually from a positive to a negative attitude toward migrants, but above all this danger is connected with an aid burnout in a civil society; (2) Othering, which includes normativity, the labeling of migrants, double or multiple standards in the treatment of migrants and refugees from various origins; the societal danger of othering contributes to societal divisions, polarizations, tensions and conflicts based on ethnicity, religion, race and gender; (3) Political functionality, whereby migration as a political construct serves as a “whipping boy” for politicians to divert public opinion from recurrent problems; it also involves the creation of piecemeal, reactionary, ad hoc public policies, and the overuse of a protocol of a state of emergency in order to bring about a centralization of political power. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9889822/ /pubmed/36741586 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1084732 Text en Copyright © 2023 Grabowska. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland
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title_fullStr Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland
title_full_unstemmed Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland
title_short Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland
title_sort societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on belarussian and ukrainian borders with poland
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741586
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1084732
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