Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark and Honorary Professor in Politics at the University of Birmingham in the UK
The politics of integration: Adjusting to new lives in host societies. (pp. 1-14). SIRIUS. Genera... more The politics of integration: Adjusting to new lives in host societies. (pp. 1-14). SIRIUS. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain. • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Migrants and refugees are asked to integrate: But what does integration actually mean? The politics of integration: adjusting to new lives in host societies SIRIUS Working Paper series
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Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal ... more Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal a conscious scheme of slow elimination of the natives. What concerns us in this article is that, in light of all Israel's intentional violence, episodes of Palestinian non-violence do not capture and sustain the world's attention in the way that violent acts do. In order to fill this gap, and conceptually, we draw upon the rich works of Puar and de Sousa Santos, as well as others, to show how Gazans' heterogeneous ontologies and experiences with Israel's settler colonialism have, over the years, shaped a multiplicity of strategies for resistance. Empirically, we draw upon ethnographic observations and interviews conducted with Gazan Great March of Return (GRM) protesters to analyze their strategies of non-violence. We conclude that, in spite of the lack of sustained focus by academics and the media (in general) on the embedded resilience of Palestinians to Israel's settler colonial regime, and in spite of Israel's targeting of resistance itself, Palestinians' resolve remains as alive as ever in pursuit of their right to have rights. Our analysis in turn has implications for how the media and the academy interpolate and write about non-violence.
Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal ... more Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal a conscious scheme of slow elimination of the natives. What concerns us in this article is that, in light of all Israel's intentional violence, episodes of Palestinian non-violence do not capture and sustain the world's attention in the way that violent acts do. In order to fill this gap, and conceptually, we draw upon the rich works of Puar and de Sousa Santos, as well as others, to show how Gazans' heterogeneous ontologies and experiences with Israel's settler colonialism have, over the years, shaped a multiplicity of strategies for resistance. Empirically, we draw upon ethnographic observations and interviews conducted with Gazan Great March of Return (GRM) protesters to analyze their strategies of non-violence. We conclude that, in spite of the lack of sustained focus by academics and the media (in general) on the embedded resilience of Palestinians to Israel's se...
Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University. Haim Yacobi is Professor of ... more Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University. Haim Yacobi is Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. The authors wish to thank Dr Ziad Abu Mustafa and Dr Manal Massalha for their assistance in conducting interviews in Gaza (Ziad) and for collating international organizations’ reports (Manal) for the purpose of their Wellcome Trust project which forms the basis for this piece. Reacting to President Trump’s proposed “vision” for the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, EU High Representative Josep Borrell made clear that the initiative departs from internationally agreed parameters and the EU therefore opposes “the deal”.1 The statement, however, was issued on an individual basis since EU declarations on behalf of all member states require unanimity. As expected, agreement among member states was lacking, preventing the issuance of an EU wide declaration.
This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip ... more This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip to Lebanon during August 2017. The handbook was created from the participants' notes, collected and interpreted and put together by Michelle Pace, Bent SE Hansen and Brian Kjøller Olsen. The first part is an introduction to the context of the project itself and the participants. The second part is empirical material collected during the trip, as well as participants' observations, reflections and input from our Lebanese partners. The empirical material was gathered in collaboration with staff and beneficiaries of NGO facilities in Lebanon. The third part consists of reflectionsfrom field findings and suggestions on how to build on the knowledge created during this trip. Finally, there is a supplementary section on about Shatila, which left a special mark on all participants' thoughts and hearts.
Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe, 2018
Less than 10% of the estimated total of 11 million Syrians who fled their homes, have actually re... more Less than 10% of the estimated total of 11 million Syrians who fled their homes, have actually reached Europe; around 4.8 million Syrian refugees live in neighbouring countries and over 6.6 million are internally displaced people (IDP) within Syria (Migration Policy Centre, 2016). In 2014, the author travelled back to northern Syria, where she conducted anthropological fieldwork in the past between 1997 and 2002, and visited the IDP camps of Atmeh and Qah. This chapter maps out the situation of Syrian children in these IDP camps, compared to trajectories of Syrian refugee children to Europe. Located in so-called “hard-to-reach-areas”, IDP camps are camps of liminality by their locality and marginalisation, “betwixt and between” (Turner, 1969). The IDP camps are not supposed to be permanent, yet all signs are present they will grow into permanent settlements as observed with satellite imagery. Due to the lack of international aid, children in these camps struggle with a severe lack of basic needs supply and education. By comparing the trajectories of Syrian children in Europe with those living inside IDP camps, the author considers the nexus between agency, locality, liminality, mobility and trajectories. The empirical material is based on personal fieldvisits to IDP camps, satellite imagery and interviews with Syrians in Syria, Turkey and the Netherlands. (Less)
The so-called 'Arab Awakening'is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and pol... more The so-called 'Arab Awakening'is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and policy makers. For over a decade the paradigm of authoritarian resilience had dominated studies of the Arab world, almost entirely replacing the democratization paradigm that had been prominent throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This inter-paradigm debate on how best to explain and interpret the politics of the Arab world now calls for a review, in light of the Arab uprisings. The contributions to this themed issue offer a first attempt at highlighting ...
This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)'s international ide... more This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)'s international identity and agency in the context of the memory of trauma. Emotions are understood as performances through which an actor expresses itself to others while constructing its identity, creating its agency, and potentially affecting the social order. It is argued that the memory of trauma is translated into EU foreign policy practice through emotional performances of EU representatives. Empirically, we explore this impact in relation to the EU's engagement in the Israel‐Palestinian prolonged conflict that has many underlying emotions linked with past traumatic experiences. By doing so, we aim to instigate a discussion between the emotions literature in International Relations and the European Union studies literature to nuance understanding of the politics of emotions that increasingly constrain what kind of a global actor the EU actually is or can become.
Europeans have illusions about who they are and what kind of conditions they are in. Ai Weiwei, o... more Europeans have illusions about who they are and what kind of conditions they are in. Ai Weiwei, on how Europe engages with refugees, 2017 Mark Mazorow's (2009) The Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century re-reads European history in an unconventional way: European history is not about democracy and human rights. Mazorow's argument challenges long held views that Europe is 'naturally' a cradle of democracy. On the contrary, fascism and communism-the former more than the latter-both had deep roots in European politics and societies. During the inter-war period in particular, most European states adopted policies that assaulted the rights of minorities and that limited migration as much as possible to keep their respective 'nations' clean and pure. Needless to say, Jewish refugees who attempted to escape racist and fascist policies in Germany and other countries were denied entry and asylum in several European countries, as well as in the United States of America. Most of these refugees had to return back to their countries of origin, only to be murdered in ghettos and gas chambers.
Journal of International Relations and Development, 2016
This article contributes to the debate on liminality within International Relations (IR) theory b... more This article contributes to the debate on liminality within International Relations (IR) theory by focusing on the actorness of the European Union (EU) and Hamas. The concept of liminality as a transitional process is applied to frame the situation of both the EU and Hamas as political actors in-between socially established categories. This article explores how the liminal identity of these two actors impacts, on the one hand, their relations with each other and, on the other hand, their relations of ‘self’. Exploring the procedural relations of the EU and Hamas, it argues for the necessity of recognising liminal categories in IR theory and practice, while, at the same time, it highlights the limits of such in-between categories in a world order still structured around the state.
The politics of integration: Adjusting to new lives in host societies. (pp. 1-14). SIRIUS. Genera... more The politics of integration: Adjusting to new lives in host societies. (pp. 1-14). SIRIUS. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain. • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Migrants and refugees are asked to integrate: But what does integration actually mean? The politics of integration: adjusting to new lives in host societies SIRIUS Working Paper series
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Sep 1, 2021
Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal ... more Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal a conscious scheme of slow elimination of the natives. What concerns us in this article is that, in light of all Israel's intentional violence, episodes of Palestinian non-violence do not capture and sustain the world's attention in the way that violent acts do. In order to fill this gap, and conceptually, we draw upon the rich works of Puar and de Sousa Santos, as well as others, to show how Gazans' heterogeneous ontologies and experiences with Israel's settler colonialism have, over the years, shaped a multiplicity of strategies for resistance. Empirically, we draw upon ethnographic observations and interviews conducted with Gazan Great March of Return (GRM) protesters to analyze their strategies of non-violence. We conclude that, in spite of the lack of sustained focus by academics and the media (in general) on the embedded resilience of Palestinians to Israel's settler colonial regime, and in spite of Israel's targeting of resistance itself, Palestinians' resolve remains as alive as ever in pursuit of their right to have rights. Our analysis in turn has implications for how the media and the academy interpolate and write about non-violence.
Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal ... more Since the creation of Israel in 1948 its strategies of suppressing Palestinian resistance reveal a conscious scheme of slow elimination of the natives. What concerns us in this article is that, in light of all Israel's intentional violence, episodes of Palestinian non-violence do not capture and sustain the world's attention in the way that violent acts do. In order to fill this gap, and conceptually, we draw upon the rich works of Puar and de Sousa Santos, as well as others, to show how Gazans' heterogeneous ontologies and experiences with Israel's settler colonialism have, over the years, shaped a multiplicity of strategies for resistance. Empirically, we draw upon ethnographic observations and interviews conducted with Gazan Great March of Return (GRM) protesters to analyze their strategies of non-violence. We conclude that, in spite of the lack of sustained focus by academics and the media (in general) on the embedded resilience of Palestinians to Israel's se...
Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University. Haim Yacobi is Professor of ... more Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University. Haim Yacobi is Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. The authors wish to thank Dr Ziad Abu Mustafa and Dr Manal Massalha for their assistance in conducting interviews in Gaza (Ziad) and for collating international organizations’ reports (Manal) for the purpose of their Wellcome Trust project which forms the basis for this piece. Reacting to President Trump’s proposed “vision” for the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, EU High Representative Josep Borrell made clear that the initiative departs from internationally agreed parameters and the EU therefore opposes “the deal”.1 The statement, however, was issued on an individual basis since EU declarations on behalf of all member states require unanimity. As expected, agreement among member states was lacking, preventing the issuance of an EU wide declaration.
This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip ... more This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip to Lebanon during August 2017. The handbook was created from the participants' notes, collected and interpreted and put together by Michelle Pace, Bent SE Hansen and Brian Kjøller Olsen. The first part is an introduction to the context of the project itself and the participants. The second part is empirical material collected during the trip, as well as participants' observations, reflections and input from our Lebanese partners. The empirical material was gathered in collaboration with staff and beneficiaries of NGO facilities in Lebanon. The third part consists of reflectionsfrom field findings and suggestions on how to build on the knowledge created during this trip. Finally, there is a supplementary section on about Shatila, which left a special mark on all participants' thoughts and hearts.
Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe, 2018
Less than 10% of the estimated total of 11 million Syrians who fled their homes, have actually re... more Less than 10% of the estimated total of 11 million Syrians who fled their homes, have actually reached Europe; around 4.8 million Syrian refugees live in neighbouring countries and over 6.6 million are internally displaced people (IDP) within Syria (Migration Policy Centre, 2016). In 2014, the author travelled back to northern Syria, where she conducted anthropological fieldwork in the past between 1997 and 2002, and visited the IDP camps of Atmeh and Qah. This chapter maps out the situation of Syrian children in these IDP camps, compared to trajectories of Syrian refugee children to Europe. Located in so-called “hard-to-reach-areas”, IDP camps are camps of liminality by their locality and marginalisation, “betwixt and between” (Turner, 1969). The IDP camps are not supposed to be permanent, yet all signs are present they will grow into permanent settlements as observed with satellite imagery. Due to the lack of international aid, children in these camps struggle with a severe lack of basic needs supply and education. By comparing the trajectories of Syrian children in Europe with those living inside IDP camps, the author considers the nexus between agency, locality, liminality, mobility and trajectories. The empirical material is based on personal fieldvisits to IDP camps, satellite imagery and interviews with Syrians in Syria, Turkey and the Netherlands. (Less)
The so-called 'Arab Awakening'is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and pol... more The so-called 'Arab Awakening'is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and policy makers. For over a decade the paradigm of authoritarian resilience had dominated studies of the Arab world, almost entirely replacing the democratization paradigm that had been prominent throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This inter-paradigm debate on how best to explain and interpret the politics of the Arab world now calls for a review, in light of the Arab uprisings. The contributions to this themed issue offer a first attempt at highlighting ...
This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)'s international ide... more This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)'s international identity and agency in the context of the memory of trauma. Emotions are understood as performances through which an actor expresses itself to others while constructing its identity, creating its agency, and potentially affecting the social order. It is argued that the memory of trauma is translated into EU foreign policy practice through emotional performances of EU representatives. Empirically, we explore this impact in relation to the EU's engagement in the Israel‐Palestinian prolonged conflict that has many underlying emotions linked with past traumatic experiences. By doing so, we aim to instigate a discussion between the emotions literature in International Relations and the European Union studies literature to nuance understanding of the politics of emotions that increasingly constrain what kind of a global actor the EU actually is or can become.
Europeans have illusions about who they are and what kind of conditions they are in. Ai Weiwei, o... more Europeans have illusions about who they are and what kind of conditions they are in. Ai Weiwei, on how Europe engages with refugees, 2017 Mark Mazorow's (2009) The Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century re-reads European history in an unconventional way: European history is not about democracy and human rights. Mazorow's argument challenges long held views that Europe is 'naturally' a cradle of democracy. On the contrary, fascism and communism-the former more than the latter-both had deep roots in European politics and societies. During the inter-war period in particular, most European states adopted policies that assaulted the rights of minorities and that limited migration as much as possible to keep their respective 'nations' clean and pure. Needless to say, Jewish refugees who attempted to escape racist and fascist policies in Germany and other countries were denied entry and asylum in several European countries, as well as in the United States of America. Most of these refugees had to return back to their countries of origin, only to be murdered in ghettos and gas chambers.
Journal of International Relations and Development, 2016
This article contributes to the debate on liminality within International Relations (IR) theory b... more This article contributes to the debate on liminality within International Relations (IR) theory by focusing on the actorness of the European Union (EU) and Hamas. The concept of liminality as a transitional process is applied to frame the situation of both the EU and Hamas as political actors in-between socially established categories. This article explores how the liminal identity of these two actors impacts, on the one hand, their relations with each other and, on the other hand, their relations of ‘self’. Exploring the procedural relations of the EU and Hamas, it argues for the necessity of recognising liminal categories in IR theory and practice, while, at the same time, it highlights the limits of such in-between categories in a world order still structured around the state.
The Human Right to Dominate helps us understand the trajectory of how Israeli society has become ... more The Human Right to Dominate helps us understand the trajectory of how Israeli society has become such a sick society today ...
Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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Mediterranean
EU
colonial past
empire
amnesia
atonement
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Colonialism is silent... more . Mediterranean EU colonial past empire amnesia atonement ................. Colonialism is silently inscribed in the genes of the European integration project since its origins. This is demonstrated by the incorporation of Algeria – as part of France – in the European Community and even more by its subsequent disappearance, leaving virtually no traces, following Algeria’s independence in 1962. Despite the centrality of the Mediterranean to this foundational symptom, the literature on the role of memory in European integration has predominantly had an inward focus. Thus, it has failed to adequately grapple with Europe’s colonial past and its influence on the EU’s external relations with the Mediterranean. This Special Issue aims to fill this gap, and this introduction lays out the analytical framework informing the contributions to this collective endeavour. The centrality of the Mediterranean as an epistemic and geopolitical site of knowledge production is explored with reference to Nicolaïdis’ suggestion that the EU’s strategies of dealing with its colonial past have historically been characterized by amnesia, redirection and atonement. This Special Issue builds on this framework, and expands on it through an explicit interdisciplinary approach that brings to the fore some of the foundational sources of anticolonial politics and postcolonial studies, including the work of Fanon, Touré and Nkrumah. In doing so, it contributes to decentring the EU’s view of the contemporary Mediterranean, while simultaneously providing a perspective from the social sciences on the emerging literature on the postcolonial Mediterranean, hitherto predominantly rooted in the humanities. Finally, we hope that this Special Issue also contributes to enabling a broader discussion on the politics of researching institutions oblivious of their own entanglements, direct or otherwise, with the histories, states, societies and peoples that they engage with today.
Blog - Part of UCL's Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series, 2020
12 people in the Gaza Strip have tested positive for COVID-19. This number may look miniscule whe... more 12 people in the Gaza Strip have tested positive for COVID-19. This number may look miniscule when compared to the shocking figures in China, the US, Spain or Italy. However, in light of the rapid spread of this global pandemic on the one hand, and the ongoing violence and destruction caused by Israel on the other, the conditions in Gaza will lead to a human catastrophe. This will not be a natural disaster, but rather a product of decades of Israeli settler colonial policy that has been consciously designed to achieve the dismantling of Gaza.
This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)’s international identit... more This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)’s international identity and agency in the context of memory of trauma. Emotions are understood as performances through which an actor expresses itself to others while constructing its identity, creating its agency, and potentially affecting the social order. It is argued that the memory of trauma is translated into EU foreign policy practice through emotional performances of EU representatives. Empirically, we explore this impact in relation to the EU’s engagement in the Israel-Palestinian prolonged conflict that has many underlying emotions linked with past traumatic experiences. By doing so we aim to instigate a discussion between the emotions literature in International Relations and the European Union studies literature to nuance understanding of the politics of emotions that increasingly constrain what kind of a global actor the EU actually is or can become.
During 2014, Denmark received nearly 15,000 asylum seekers, almost twice the number from the prev... more During 2014, Denmark received nearly 15,000 asylum seekers, almost twice the number from the previous year as more people fleeing Syria's war fled to Europe. By 2016, Denmark succeeded in making the country highly unattractive as a destination for refugees fleeing war torn countries. The country introduced a controversial 'jewellery bill', placed adverts in a newspaper in Lebanon dissuading refugees from contemplating a trip to Denmark, and cut assistance benefits for refugees by half. These state bordering practices aimed at securing some kind of 'Danishness'. This article aims at ascribing agency to young Syrian refugees in Denmark, who have experienced these bordering practices and who seek to counter these practices by participating in meaningful social interactions with their Danish counterparts. The empirical focus is an artistic enactment–a weeklong dance workshop that brought these youngsters together as a distinct form of practice that brings about the conditions of possibility for meaningful integration. Conceptually, it draws upon Arendt's theory of action and notion of 'plurality' to frame how such encounters come about.
In this commentary, we argue that the EU faces a decision about its fate, Europe’s fate for that ... more In this commentary, we argue that the EU faces a decision about its fate, Europe’s fate for that matter, in the way in which it deals with protection-seeking migration flows from the Global South. One choice is to continue with “business-as-usual”, meaning sealing dubious “deals” with “neighbouring” countries to stop the movement of migrants and refugees towards EU borders, securitizing human movements as threats to “European citizens” freedoms and security’, building walls, sending heavily armed boats to the Mediterranean, privatizing and outsourcing migration and asylum governance and so on.
If one looks at the European Union (EU)’s southern neighbourhood and considers its response to th... more If one looks at the European Union (EU)’s southern neighbourhood and considers its response to the Israeli Palestinian conflict, one can only wonder how the EU can have any apologists left at all. While the tortured history of the conflict dates back more than a century, its roots lie in decades of clashes over religion, borders, and territory. The dispute between Israelis and Palestinians has engulfed politicians, diplomats, academics, NGO officials and others in a peace process in which the ultimate goal has been tantalizingly close on numerous occasions only to be pulled apart at the 11th hour. Few international disputes have generated as much emotion, passion, anguish, and diplomatic gridlock as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Journal of International Relations and Development
This article contributes to the debate on liminality within International Relations (IR) theory b... more This article contributes to the debate on liminality within International Relations (IR) theory by focusing on the actorness of the European Union (EU) and Hamas. The concept of liminality as a transitional process is applied to frame the situation of both the EU and Hamas as political actors in-between socially established categories. This article explores how the liminal identity of these two actors impacts, on the one hand, their relations with each other and, on the other hand, their relations of 'self'. Exploring the procedural relations of the EU and Hamas, it argues for the necessity of recognising liminal categories in IR theory and practice, while, at the same time, it highlights the limits of such in-between categories in a world order still structured around the state.
This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)’s international identit... more This article focuses on the impact of emotions on the European Union (EU)’s international identity and agency in the context of memory of trauma. Emotions are understood as performances through which an actor expresses itself to others while constructing its identity, creating its agency, and potentially affecting the social order. It is argued that the memory of trauma is translated into EU foreign policy practice through emotional performances of EU representatives. Empirically, we explore this impact in relation to the EU’s engagement in the Israel-Palestinian prolonged conflict that has many underlying emotions linked with past traumatic experiences. By doing so we aim to instigate a discussion between the emotions literature in International Relations and the European Union studies literature to nuance understanding of the politics of emotions that increasingly constrain what kind of a global actor the EU actually is or can become.
Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Syrian refugee children have withstood violence,... more Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Syrian refugee children have withstood violence, uncertainty, fear, trauma and loss. This book follows their journeys by bringing together scholars and practitioners to reflect on how to make their situation better and to get this knowledge to as many front liners – across European and neighbouring countries in the Middle East – as possible. The book is premised on the underlying conception of refugee children as not merely a vulnerable contingent of the displaced Syrian population, but one that possesses a certain agency for change and progress. In this vein, the various contributions aim to not just de-securitize the ‘conversation’ on migration that frequently centres on the presumed insecurity that refugees personify. They also de-securitize the figure and image of the refugee. Through the stories of the youngest and most vulnerable, they demonstrate that refugee children are not mere opaque figures on whom we project our insecurities. Instead, they embody potentials and opportunities for progress that we need to nurture, as young refugees find themselves compelled to both negotiate the practical realities of a life in exile, and situate themselves in changing and unfamiliar socio-cultural contexts. Drawing on extensive field research, this edited volume points in the direction of a new rights based framework which will safeguard the future of these children and their well-being. Offering a comparative lens between approaches to tackling refugees in the Middle East and Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of refugees and migration studies and human rights, as well as anyone with an interest in the Middle East or Europe.
The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy. Edited by Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti, Thomas Demmelhuber, 2017
This contribution analyses the unwillingness of the EU to give Islamist movements a role in the M... more This contribution analyses the unwillingness of the EU to give Islamist movements a role in the MENA's democratization process. It argues that since the " Arab uprisings " , the EU has continued to avoid engaging these movements, repeating the same pattern of past practices. Securitization and de-politicization are still common procedures in the revised ENP policy, favouring the " stability " promised by the " new " authoritarian governments.
This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip ... more This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip to Lebanon during August 2017. The handbook was created from the participants’ notes, collected, interpreted and put together by Michelle Pace, Bent SE Hansen and Brian Kjøller Olsen.
The first part is an introduction to the context of the project itself and the participants. The second part is empirical material collected during the trip, as well as participants’ observations, reflections and input from our Lebanese partners. The empirical material was gathered in collaboration with staff and beneficiaries of NGO facilities in Lebanon. The third part consists of reflectionsfrom field findings and suggestions on how to build on the knowledge created during this trip. Finally, there is a supplementary section on Shatila, which left a special mark on all participants’ thoughts and hearts.
Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Syrian refugee children have withstood violence... more Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Syrian refugee children have withstood violence, uncertainty, fear, trauma and loss. This book follows their journeys by bringing together scholars and practitioners to reflect on how to make their situation better and to get this knowledge to as many front liners - across European and neighbouring countries in the Middle East - as possible.
This is the third podcast in the University College London (UCL)'s Institute of Advanced Studies ... more This is the third podcast in the University College London (UCL)'s Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here you can listen to Haim Yacobi, Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark discuss the potential impact of Covid 19 in Gaza. Their analysis forms part of a wider Welcome Trust funded research project on the interconnections of power, violence and health in contemporary conflict zones. Their research team includes Ziad Abu Mustafa and Manal Massalha.
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Mediterranean
EU
colonial past
empire
amnesia
atonement
.................
Colonialism is silently inscribed in the genes of the European integration
project since its origins. This is demonstrated by the incorporation of
Algeria – as part of France – in the European Community and even more
by its subsequent disappearance, leaving virtually no traces, following
Algeria’s independence in 1962. Despite the centrality of the Mediterranean
to this foundational symptom, the literature on the role of memory in
European integration has predominantly had an inward focus. Thus, it has
failed to adequately grapple with Europe’s colonial past and its influence
on the EU’s external relations with the Mediterranean. This Special Issue
aims to fill this gap, and this introduction lays out the analytical framework
informing the contributions to this collective endeavour. The centrality of
the Mediterranean as an epistemic and geopolitical site of knowledge
production is explored with reference to Nicolaïdis’ suggestion that the
EU’s strategies of dealing with its colonial past have historically been
characterized by amnesia, redirection and atonement. This Special Issue
builds on this framework, and expands on it through an explicit
interdisciplinary approach that brings to the fore some of the foundational sources of anticolonial politics and postcolonial studies, including the work of Fanon, Touré and Nkrumah. In doing so, it contributes to decentring the EU’s view of the contemporary Mediterranean, while simultaneously providing a
perspective from the social sciences on the emerging literature on the
postcolonial Mediterranean, hitherto predominantly rooted in the
humanities. Finally, we hope that this Special Issue also contributes to
enabling a broader discussion on the politics of researching institutions
oblivious of their own entanglements, direct or otherwise, with the
histories, states, societies and peoples that they engage with today.
The book is premised on the underlying conception of refugee children as not merely a vulnerable contingent of the displaced Syrian population, but one that possesses a certain agency for change and progress. In this vein, the various contributions aim to not just de-securitize the ‘conversation’ on migration that frequently centres on the presumed insecurity that refugees personify. They also de-securitize the figure and image of the refugee. Through the stories of the youngest and most vulnerable, they demonstrate that refugee children are not mere opaque figures on whom we project our insecurities. Instead, they embody potentials and opportunities for progress that we need to nurture, as young refugees find themselves compelled to both negotiate the practical realities of a life in exile, and situate themselves in changing and unfamiliar socio-cultural contexts. Drawing on extensive field research, this edited volume points in the direction of a new rights based framework which will safeguard the future of these children and their well-being.
Offering a comparative lens between approaches to tackling refugees in the Middle East and Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of refugees and migration studies and human rights, as well as anyone with an interest in the Middle East or Europe.
The first part is an introduction to the context of the
project itself and the participants. The second part is empirical material collected during the trip, as well as participants’ observations, reflections and input from our Lebanese partners. The empirical material was gathered in collaboration with staff and beneficiaries of NGO facilities in Lebanon. The third part consists of reflectionsfrom field findings and suggestions on how to build on the knowledge created during this trip. Finally, there is a supplementary section on Shatila, which left a special mark on all participants’ thoughts and hearts.