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Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values?

312 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into... Read more

1. European Norms and Values and the Refugee Crisis: Issues and Challenges  Elzbieta M. Gozdziak & Izabella Main 

2. Echoes of Memories of Forced Displacement: The Case of the Greek Island of Lesvos Marilena Anastasopoulou 

3. Against the Expansion of Racism: The Experience of the Camp des Milles Bernard Mossé 

4. The Moral Panic Button: Construction and Consequences Márton Gero & Endre Sik 

5. Abolishing Asylum and Violating the Human Rights of Refugees: Why is it Tolerated? The Case of Hungary in the EU Felix Bender 

6. Between Closing Borders to Refugees and Welcoming Ukrainian Workers: Polish Migration Law at the Crossroads Witold Klaus 

7. Debating Deportation Detention in Germany - The Many Faces of the Rule of Law Johanna C. Günther 

8. Integration by Contract and the 'Values of the Republic': Investigating the French State as a Value Promoter for Migrants (2003-2016) Myriam Hachimi Alaoui & Janie Pélabay  

9. Box-ticking Exercise or Real Inclusion? Challenges of Including Refugees' Perspectives in EU Policy Robert Larruina & Halleh Ghorashi 

10. Being a 'Refuge-City': Welcoming Rhetorics in Paris and Barcelona Louise Hombert 

11. Holding Course: Civil Society Organizations' Value Expressions in the Swedish Legislative Consultation System before and after 2015 Roberto Scaramuzzino & Brigitte Suter 

12. Community-based Sponsorship of Resettling Refugees in the UK: British Values in Action? Joanne van Selm 

13. Crisis and Willkommenskultur: Civil Society Volunteering for Refugees in Germany Therese Herrmann 

14. Cosmopolitanism at the Crossroads: Swedish Immigration Policy after the 2015 Refugee Crisis Christian Fernández 

15. (Un)Deserving Refugees: Contested Access to the 'Community of Value' in Italy Chiara Marchetti 

16. Christian Charity as the Last Line of Defense for Migrants in Ventimiglia Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena 

17. Proclaiming and Practicing Pro-immigration Values in Poland: A Case Study of Poznan Izabella Main 

18. Concluding Thoughts Elzbieta M. Gozdziak & Brigitte Suter

Biography

Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, a Research Professor at Oslo Met University, Oslo, Norway, and a Fellow for Refugee Engaged Scholarship at the Center for Social Justice, Georgetown University, USA.



Izabella Main is an Associate Professor of Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.



Brigitte Suter is a Senior researcher at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University, Sweden.