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Beyond symbolic policy making: The Copenhagen School, migration, and the marked-unmarked analogue

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  • Sabine Hirschauer

    (New Mexico State University, United States.)

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This article problematizes the securitization of migration through symbolic policy discourse. Policy as discourse is not innocent. It creates not only instrumental outcomes, but can also signal deeply ideological and profound, symbolic meanings. This study discusses Germany’s controversial ANKER Center policy as a form of such symbolic signaling. Distinguishing between negative and positive securitization, this article then brings into focus the non-linear, non-fixed, political, and social construction of these two forms of securitization in the context of migration. Framed in part by the author’s ongoing field work with migrant organizations and volunteer groups in southern Germany, this article draws specific attention to a discursive marked-unmarked asymmetry. It then applies the sociologists’ method of ‘marking everything’ as a strategy to ‘write against’ securitization’s negative logic—toward a positive, more inclusive migration agenda.

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  • Sabine Hirschauer, 2021. "Beyond symbolic policy making: The Copenhagen School, migration, and the marked-unmarked analogue," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 18(4), pages 367-380, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:18:y:2021:i:4:p:367-380
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v18i4.1136
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