Immobilizing mobility: Border ethnography, illiberal democracy, and the politics of the "refugee crisis" in Hungary

ABSTRACT In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between, on the one hand, depoliticizing narratives of crisis that sought to immobilize the migrants and, on the other, concrete political mobilizati...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American ethnologist Jg. 43; H. 1; S. 25 - 37
Hauptverfasser:	KALLIUS, ANNASTIINA, MONTERESCU, DANIEL, RAJARAM, PREM KUMAR
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Arlington Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2016 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Schlagworte:	Activism Borders Crises Democracy Ethnography Hegemony Humanitarianism Hungarian language Hungary Internet Management of crises Migrants Mobility Mobilization Narratives Politics Refugees Summer Territorial issues Hungary
ISSN:	0094-0496, 1548-1425
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Zusammenfassung:	ABSTRACT In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between, on the one hand, depoliticizing narratives of crisis that sought to immobilize the migrants and, on the other, concrete political mobilization that sought to facilitate their mobility. While state institutions and humanitarian volunteer groups framed mobility in terms that emphasized a vertical form of politics, a horizontal counterpolitics arose by the summer's end, one that challenged hegemonic territorial politics. The state's efforts to immobilize resulted only in more radical forms of mobility. Outlining an ethnography of mobility, immobilization, and cross‐border activism, we follow the dramatic yet momentary presence, and subsequent absence, of migrants in an evanescent rebel city marked by novel political solidarities. [mobility, immobility, transit zones, border politics, refugees, migrants, Hungary]
Bibliographie:	ArticleID:AMET12260 ark:/67375/WNG-05L06K9C-P istex:8C810FAA701B42FEF581523213991C93EC5B6691 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23
ISSN:	0094-0496 1548-1425
DOI:	10.1111/amet.12260