Europe and the refugee response : a crisis of values? / edited by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. European norms and values and the refugee crisis: issues and challenges -- 2. Echoes of memories of forced displacement: the case of the Greek island of Lesvos -- 3. Against the expansion of racism: the experience of the Camp des Milles -- 4. The Moral Panic Button: construction and consequences -- 5. Abolishing asylum and violating the human rights of refugees. Why is it tolerated?: the case of Hungary in the EU -- 6. Between closing borders to refugees and welcoming Ukrainian workers: Polish migration law at the crossroads -- 7. Debating deportation detention in Germany: the many faces of the rule of law -- 8. Integration by contract and the ‘values of the Republic’: investigating the French State as a value promoter for migrants (2003–2016) -- 9. Box-ticking exercise or real inclusion? challenges of including refugees’ perspectives in EU policy -- 10. Being a ‘refuge-city’: welcoming rhetorics in Paris and Barcelona -- 11. Holding course: civil society organizations’ value expressions in the Swedish legislative consultation system before and after 2015 -- 12. Community-based sponsorship of refugees resettling in the UK: British values in action? -- 13. Crisis and Willkommenskultur: civil society volunteering for refugees in Germany -- 14. Cosmopolitanism at the crossroads: Swedish immigration policy after the 2015 refugee crisis -- 15. (Un)Deserving refugees: contested access to the ‘community of value’ in Italy -- 16. Christian charity as the last line of defense for migrants in Ventimiglia -- 17. Proclaiming and practicing pro-immigration values in Poland: a case study of Poznan´

"This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum. Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of immigration, countries with a more recent refugee arrivals, and countries that want to keep refugees at bay and refuse to admit even the smallest number of asylum seekers. Contributors in the book explore the roles which national and local governments, civil society, and community leaders play in these debates and practices, and ask what strategies are being used to educate refugees about European values, and to facilitate their integration. At a time when debates on refugees and European norms continue to rage, this book provides an important interdisciplinary analysis which will be of interest to European policy makers, and researchers across the fields of migration, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and political science"-- Provided by publisher.

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