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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Published in:	American ethnologist Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 25 - 37
Main Authors:	KALLIUS, ANNASTIINA, MONTERESCU, DANIEL, RAJARAM, PREM KUMAR
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Arlington Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2016 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	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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