In person icon Emotions from Bellow: Emotional Dynamics of Migration, Insecurity and Politics in Europe

Abstract

The offer of protection to citizens and non-citizens is a process mediated by normative understandings of rights of citizenship as well as emotional dynamics connected to the discourses that found this normativity. From traditional social contract theories to contemporary notions of citizenship based on cultural heritage, the state is viewed as the rightful agent to uphold and defend not only life, borders, laws, and property, but also identities and values. Different citizenship statuses entail not only different rights and access to political participation, but they also determine different levels of entitlement to belonging to a political and affective community. Furthermore, the protection of identities and values and more importantly the emotional needs for security of different groups is subjected to political and normative conflicts over entitlement, recognition and belonging that lead to intense political polarization. In the last years, the overall perception of a refugee crisis in Europe, as well as growing numbers of migrants have been represented as a threat to the physical, socio-economic and cultural security of citizens. Whereas much ink has been spilled in shedding light on the emotional dynamics of insecurity and fear associated to migrants, minorities and refugees, the emotional needs for protection and perceptions of security and insecurity on the part of these last groups tend to be disavowed and understudied. More importantly, these groups tend to be misrepresented in quantitative and qualitative and cross-country researches, which tend to focus more closely on the feelings and emotional needs for protection of citizens. This panel seeks to shed light on the understudied perceptions of insecurity, emotional needs for protection and social representations on protection on the part of citizens and non-citizens in Europe.

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