Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth: discourses of ‘migration crisis’ and the expansion of Frontex
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Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth : discourses of ‘migration crisis’ and the expansion of Frontex. / Sachseder, Julia; Stachowitsch, Saskia; Binder, Clemens.
I: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Bind 48, Nr. 19, 2022, s. 670–4693.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth
T2 - discourses of ‘migration crisis’ and the expansion of Frontex
AU - Sachseder, Julia
AU - Stachowitsch, Saskia
AU - Binder, Clemens
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Migration movements at the EU external borders are increasinglyunderstood and governed through a logic of crisis that draws ongendered and racialised stereotypes of migrants and colonial Self-‘Other’ representations. These narratives of ‘migration crisis’ notonly shape public discourse, but also inform institutionalprocesses within the EU border security architecture, particularlythe growth of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency(Frontex). Bringing critical border and migration studies inconversation with feminist postcolonial scholarship on crisis, weargue that gendering and racialisation underpin Frontex’s ‘crisislabelling’ that gives way to institutional claims for extendedresources and competences. In an analysis of Frontex’s AnnualRisk Analysis Reports (2010–2020), we identify four themesthrough which Frontex engages in crisis labelling on the basis ofgendered and racialised stereotypes, dualisms, and postcolonial(self-)representations: migration as threat; the unknownness ofmigrants; the hierarchical creation of (non-)European spaces; andhumanitarian concerns over vulnerable migrants. Through thesethemes, gender and race not only made migration intelligible ascrisis but importantly justified demands for Frontex’s extension.These findings reveal how gender and race inform theinstitutional politics of defining and governing migration in waysthat reproduce intersectional power relations and (post-)coloniallegacies.
AB - Migration movements at the EU external borders are increasinglyunderstood and governed through a logic of crisis that draws ongendered and racialised stereotypes of migrants and colonial Self-‘Other’ representations. These narratives of ‘migration crisis’ notonly shape public discourse, but also inform institutionalprocesses within the EU border security architecture, particularlythe growth of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency(Frontex). Bringing critical border and migration studies inconversation with feminist postcolonial scholarship on crisis, weargue that gendering and racialisation underpin Frontex’s ‘crisislabelling’ that gives way to institutional claims for extendedresources and competences. In an analysis of Frontex’s AnnualRisk Analysis Reports (2010–2020), we identify four themesthrough which Frontex engages in crisis labelling on the basis ofgendered and racialised stereotypes, dualisms, and postcolonial(self-)representations: migration as threat; the unknownness ofmigrants; the hierarchical creation of (non-)European spaces; andhumanitarian concerns over vulnerable migrants. Through thesethemes, gender and race not only made migration intelligible ascrisis but importantly justified demands for Frontex’s extension.These findings reveal how gender and race inform theinstitutional politics of defining and governing migration in waysthat reproduce intersectional power relations and (post-)coloniallegacies.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Migration crisis
KW - gender
KW - race
KW - Frontex
KW - border security
U2 - 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2092461
DO - 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2092461
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 670
EP - 4693
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
SN - 1369-183X
IS - 19
ER -
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