The Ukrainian Refugee "Crisis" and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0011" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0011</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0011" target="_blank" >10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Ukrainian Refugee "Crisis" and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics

Original language description

This text brings into analytical focus the workings of whiteness within the politics regarding Ukrainian refugees in two neighboring countries, Austria and Czechia. This comparison aims to contextualize various racial hierarchies in which Ukrainian refugees are embedded, and to connect public discourses translated by mass media and critically accepted by scholars and experts with the personal experience of refugees and those recruited to help them in reception centers. We follow the layering and conversion of racial hierarchies through examining three interrelated realms of public policy: (1) the conflation of illiberal and liberal populisms concerning the Russian invasion and the subsequent refugee movements in the discursive practices of leading politicians and those responsible for refugee politics; (2) the intersectionality of gender, class, and race as a locus of control over Ukrainian women, who comprise the majority of those fleeing the country; and (3) elaborating an extreme case of forging whiteness, within the overt and covert racist practices concerning Ukrainian Romani refugees. To conclude, we discuss possible directions for future research that apply critical whiteness studies for understanding how racial hierarchies design public politics concerning refugees, and what can be done to minimize the injustices determined by whiteness.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics

ISSN

2570-5857

e-ISSN

2570-5857

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

104-130

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85143696139