Migration and democracy
- In the last few years, we have been increasingly experiencing a discursive and practical use of the existing democratic structures as an instrument of anti-immigration anxiety and sentiment, from electoral support to right-wing populist parties to anti-immigrant, xenophobic, and/or racist mobilizations in and beyond the Western world. This article argues that the origins and political histories that the concepts of demos and democracy stand on provide a firm ground to resist the attempts at their current nativist/nationalist closure. Contesting the attempts to reduce the concepts of democracy and demos to strictly limited or ethnically defined populations, the article develops a political argument that relates democracy and migration, which have been represented as opposite poles within the current political map defined by the populist surge.
Author details: | Özge Yaka |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158370-5 |
ISBN: | 978-0-367-74536-3 |
ISBN: | 978-1-00-315837-0 |
Title of parent work (English): | The condition of democracy. - Volume 2: Contesting citizenship |
Subtitle (German): | reclaiming democracy from its nativist/nationalist closure 1 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Editor(s): | Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf, Bryan S. Turner |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/07/13 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2024/07/26 |
Number of pages: | 15 |
First page: | 54 |
Last Page: | 68 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
License (German): | ![]() |