Review article
Security Aspects of the Migration Crisis: Between Humanity and the Creation of New “Artificial” Minorities
Mirza Smajić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5537-7364
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
In this article author is analyzing influence of migration crisis on the European Union through security and political dimension, and reception of these discourses among political elite and citizens. Author’s special attention is on humanitarian, but also on security dimension of perception of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers as “new” artificial minorities in the European Union. On other hand, such processes are increasingly being portrayed as a security threat, embodied in the increase of xenophobia and racism, whereby some political elites in the EU perceive immigrants as “anti-citizens”. Author also analyzes the securitization of refugees’ identity, which is being presented (through the speech acts) as the security threat in some EU member states. The consequence of such developments is the increase of violence against minorities and the negative impact on the inner cohesion within the EU, as well as its capacities to manage the migration crisis. Finally, starting from theoretical and empirical assumptions, the author offers a comprehensive review of the European migration crisis in order to reduce the negative reversibility on achieving minority rights in the EU.
Keywords
Refugee crisis; securitization; deterritorialization; European Union; new minorities
Hrčak ID:
198076
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2017.
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