TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Asylum seekers in the global context of xenophobia: introduction to the special issue JO - Journal of sociology (Melbourne, Vic.) A1 - Poynting, Scott A1 - Briskman, Linda SP - 3 EP - 8 VL - 56 IS - 1 N2 - In 2015 the global media fixated on the 'Syrian crisis' that became the 'refugee crisis' for Europe. This construction of crisis was Eurocentric, temporally narrow and presented as problem for European nation states. We view the 'problem' rather as the nationalism and racism of receiving countries with a resurgence of a discourse of ethno-nationalist European identity sharpened by the global financial crisis and neoliberal austerity., Despite disparate national histories, we discern:,

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LA - en SN - 1440-7833 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783319882524 ID - ref1 ER -