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Becoming Mediterranean: semantic shifts in German asylum and refugee discourse
International Politics ( IF 1.164 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 , DOI: 10.1057/s41311-021-00342-z
Benjamin Herborth 1
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The European ‘refugee crisis’ has seen the Mediterranean described as: a hot spot in need of better governance and border policing; the world’s deadliest border; and as a humanitarian catastrophe. In Germany, the initial default option was to treat the various articulations of crisis as localized. Keeping the Mediterranean (and thus the crisis) at arm’s length was facilitated by the Dublin II regulations stipulating that asylum claims would only be processed in the state where they were first made. Only in 2015, when large numbers of refugees arrived, the Mediterranean was rearticulated as concerning ‘us’ rather than ‘them’. Focusing on German asylum and refugee debates, this article traces such semantic shifts to show how, counter-intuitively, becoming Mediterranean is enabled by a tacit process of de-Europeanization which instrumentally calls for European solutions only when the ‘crisis’ reaches the national level.



中文翻译:

成为地中海:德国庇护和难民话语中的语义转变

欧洲的“难民危机”将地中海描述为:需要更好治理和边境警务的热点;世界上最致命的边境;并作为人道主义灾难。在德国,最初的默认选项是将危机的各种表述视为本地化的。都柏林 II 法规规定庇护申请只能在最初提出的州处理,这促进了与地中海(以及危机)保持一定距离。仅在 2015 年,当大量难民抵达时,地中海才被重新表述为“我们”而不是“他们”。本文着眼于德国庇护和难民辩论,追溯了这种语义转变,以展示如何与直觉相反地,

更新日期:2021-08-09
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