Journal
SECURITY DIALOGUE
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 275-291Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0967010619830590
Keywords
Gender; media; race; refugee crisis; securitization of migration; vulnerability
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- Swedish Research Council (VR) [2014-3519]
- Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ) [P14-0866:1]
- Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences [P14-0866:1] Funding Source: Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences
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It is well established in the literature that migration has become increasingly securitized. In this article, we examine the racialized and gendered grids of intelligibility that make securitizing moves possible in the migration context. Specifically, we argue that the securitization of migration during the so-called EU refugee crisis comes into being through intertwined and mutually dependent representations of racialized, masculinized threat and racialized, feminized vulnerability, which are woven into the scaffolding of colonial modernity. We construct our argument through an analysis of relevant newspaper articles published in British newspapers between September 2015 and March 2016. Accordingly, our discussion advances understandings of the dominant narratives through which the 'refugee crisis' has been understood. In addition, in highlighting the naturalized inequalities that underpin securitizing speech acts, the article also contributes to literature that seeks to add an improved understanding of power to securitization theory.
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