Migration Debates in Europe: Migrants as Anti- Citizens, Spring 2011

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This article tries to reveal the recent debates revolving around the issue of migration in Europe, and claims that migration has recently become securitized and stigmatized in a way that prompts the autochthonous societies to generate a set of migrant-phobic attitudes. This work further argues that this kind of fear does not really have material sources; it is on the contrary an artificial fear fabricated by the conservative political elite who are likely to use the politics of fear as a form of governmentality to sustain their power. Hence, this work will specifically concentrate on the processes of othering migrant origin individuals as anti-citizens.

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Ayhan Kaya

Ayhan Kaya is a Professor in Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University.

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