Forced
migration and border spaces as fault lines posing risks to society
through the notion of ‘Othering’, remain under-explored in risk
literature. With Europe facing its biggest humanitarian crisis with
forced migration and displacement due to conflict zones, the borders of
the European Union have received renewed attention in media. Refugees
and the displaced are often depicted as ‘migrants’ and are seen as
transgressing borders as illegitimate entities. Although increasing
attention has been paid to border patrol and issues of securitization
since 9/11, the ‘migrant’ body as ‘risky body’ in political and policy
discussions is under-conceptualized and theorized in risk literature. We
examine political discourses of the UK Government to discern how the
migrant and the expanding borders of the EU are framed as forms of
societal and economic risk and equally how these are mitigated with and
through the discourse of space and borders. We take a constructionist
approach to the ‘migrant’ problem in the EU and UK where risk is
socially constructed through political discourse.
Dorothea Lange [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; Establishment of rural rehabilitation camps for migrants in California.
March 15, 1935 (from page 1a) |Source=Library of
Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/phpdata/pageturner.php?type=contactminor&cmIMG1=/pnp/ppmsca/19100/19156/0002
Citation:
Y.Ibrahim, & Howarth. A. (2017)Communicating the ‘migrant’ other as risk:
space, EU and expanding borders, Journal of Risk Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2017.1313765
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