*SISP General Conference - Milano, 15-17 September 2016*
*Panel 6.8 Over the border. Social movements and refugees*
Since 2015, a rising number of refugees made the journey to the European
Union to seek asylum, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through
Southeast Europe. According to Eurostat, EU member states received over 1.2
million first time asylum applications in 2015, a number more than double
that of the previous year. This unprecedented phenomenon triggered a series
of events and processes in different domains: at the EU level, policies
went from attempts to address the humanitarian crisis and the dramatic
number of deaths at sea to measures aiming to fight human smuggling and to
negotiate with Turkey to reduce the inflow; some countries proposed to
suspend the Schengen Treaty and re-establish internal border controls;
radical right forces proposed emergency measures to “defend the borders”
throughout the continent, sometimes gaining hegemony on the whole political
field and dramatically influencing the policies of mainstream parties. At
the grassroots level, a wide set of actions and initiatives were proposed
in solidarity with refugees in many countries and at the transnational
level.
This panel aims to focus on these cases from the point of view of social
movement studies and of the sociology of migration. We invite papers
focusing their analysis on the development of counter-hegemonic frames and
social coalitions during critical junctures, on mobilizations in support of
refugees, on those by refugees themselves, on the protests developing in
the various territories involved in the migration flows from the South to
the North of Europe that cut across the Balkans and Eastern European
Countries up to Northern Europe with particular attention to the period
2013-2017, on the interaction of these events with the economic crisis, on
their representation in the public discourse, on their impact on party
politics.
We invite papers aiming at addressing, both from theoretical and empirical
perspectives, these issues and others regarding the refugee crisis and its
relationship with collective action.
Chairs: Donatella Della Porta, Lorenzo Zamponi
Abstract submission:
http://www.sisp.it/convegno2016/
*Deadline: 5th June*
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Lorenzo Zamponi, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali - Institute of Humanities and Social
Sciences
Scuola Normale Superiore
Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi
50123 Firenze (Italia)
lorenzo.zamponi@??? <lorenzo.zamponi@???>
+39 0552673348
