eprintid: 10152635
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creators_name: Kovács, Eszter Krasznai
creators_name: Ramakrishnan, Kavita
creators_name: Thieme, Tatiana
title: Provincializing European responses to the refugee ‘crisis’ through a Hungarian lens
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divisions: C03
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divisions: UCL
note: © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
abstract: This paper engages with state, citizen, and civil society responses to refugees in Budapest and Hungary more widely in order to ‘provincialise’ European migration policy and politics. We introduce grounded, eastern ‘frontline’ realities and histories to complicate European claims to universality and hierarchies of “goodness”. Through ethnographic work that documents and analyses refugee reception after the so-called 2015 refugee crisis, we shed light on the diverse forms of existing crises affecting the EU. These conflicts involve contestations over i) who is deemed European (questions that have been asked both of migrants and East Europeans), and ii) the ‘Europeanisation’ project as it has entailed new governance and funding arrangements for the development of civil society organisations. These new governance modes have attempted to re-shape city-state-EU dynamics, purposefully eliding problematic nation-state responses to refugees. These have heightened opposition to EU power-creep from conservative governments. Through an empirically rich discussion of the Hungarian context in relation to Europe, this paper speaks to the broader spectrum of grounded and politicised populist responses that have challenged the EU's governance and future.
date: 2022-10
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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elements_id: 1966665
doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708
lyricists_name: Kovacs, Eszter
lyricists_id: EKOVA54
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Political Geography
volume: 98
article_number: 102708
issn: 0962-6298
citation:        Kovács, Eszter Krasznai;    Ramakrishnan, Kavita;    Thieme, Tatiana;      (2022)    Provincializing European responses to the refugee ‘crisis’ through a Hungarian lens.                   Political Geography , 98     , Article 102708.  10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708>.       Green open access   
 
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