Aylan and Colonia. From the War against Migrants to the War against Refugees

Recent EU migration policies, traditionally centred on migrants’ mobility governance, have increasingly been focused, since 2015,on the managing of the so-called refugee crisis. This transition has been accompanied by a new discursive and visual representation of migration, within which the impressi...

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Main Author:	Alessandra Sciurba
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Bologna 2017-07-01
Series:	Governare la paura
Subjects:	refugees migration aylan colonia
Online Access:	https://governarelapaura.unibo.it/article/view/7130

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spelling	doaj-96a8496c2a4c483a8e58d858fc5572812020-11-25T02:55:08ZengUniversity of BolognaGovernare la paura1974-49352017-07-0110110.6092/issn.1974-4935/71306452Aylan and Colonia. From the War against Migrants to the War against RefugeesAlessandra Sciurba0University of BergamoRecent EU migration policies, traditionally centred on migrants’ mobility governance, have increasingly been focused, since 2015,on the managing of the so-called refugee crisis. This transition has been accompanied by a new discursive and visual representation of migration, within which the impressive image of Aylan Kurdi and the chaotic and confused images of the Sylvester Night in Colonia, in 2015, take a significant role. This article analyses the impact of these two events, as they were narrated by the media, by identifying a nonlinear process which has led from the perception of a migrant crisis to the one of a refugee crisis and, consequently, from the implementation of EU anti-migration policies to the implementation of anti-refugee policies.https://governarelapaura.unibo.it/article/view/7130refugeesmigrationaylancolonia
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title	Aylan and Colonia. From the War against Migrants to the War against Refugees
title_short	Aylan and Colonia. From the War against Migrants to the War against Refugees
title_full	Aylan and Colonia. From the War against Migrants to the War against Refugees
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publisher	University of Bologna
series	Governare la paura
issn	1974-4935
publishDate	2017-07-01
description	Recent EU migration policies, traditionally centred on migrants’ mobility governance, have increasingly been focused, since 2015,on the managing of the so-called refugee crisis. This transition has been accompanied by a new discursive and visual representation of migration, within which the impressive image of Aylan Kurdi and the chaotic and confused images of the Sylvester Night in Colonia, in 2015, take a significant role. This article analyses the impact of these two events, as they were narrated by the media, by identifying a nonlinear process which has led from the perception of a migrant crisis to the one of a refugee crisis and, consequently, from the implementation of EU anti-migration policies to the implementation of anti-refugee policies.
topic	refugees migration aylan colonia
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Aylan and Colonia. From the War against Migrants to the War against Refugees

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