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View article: Through the eyes of a child: the meaning and negotiation of integration from the perspective of pupils in Vienna
Through the eyes of a child: the meaning and negotiation of integration from the perspective of pupils in Vienna Open
Scholars have pointed out that the dominant discourse on integration in Austria is characterized by an assimilationist view. This is particularly evident in various education policy measures – e.g., German support classes (Deutschförderkla…
View article: Borderless fear?
Borderless fear? Open
Studies have highlighted differences between right-wing populism in Western and Central Eastern Europe but suggested that discourses have been converging since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015. This article examines this claim by foc…
View article: Narrating Paradox Affects: Unaccompanied Minor Asylum-Seekers in Austria
Narrating Paradox Affects: Unaccompanied Minor Asylum-Seekers in Austria Open
Asylum-seeking unaccompanied children and youngsters are situated at the crossroads between exclusionary and repressive asylum policies, on the one hand, and relatively inclusive and caring child welfare policies, on the other. This is the…
View article: Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria Open
The Austrian policy landscape with regard to the educational integration measures directly or indirectly targeting migrant children is characterized by inconsistency and the concurrence of integrative and segregative measures. We ask how t…
View article: Challenging cultures of rejection
Challenging cultures of rejection Open
In this article, Bojanic, Jonsson, Neergaard and Sauer present a synthetic overview of the five country cases included in the special issue that analyse the emergence of cultures of rejection since 2015. In general, they discuss the concep…
View article: Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality
Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality Open
This article sheds light on the waiting period experienced by asylum‐seeking children in Austria. We argue that this period can be defined as a ‘phase of liminality’ in which ‘precarity’ of asylum seekers is produced. The article analyses …
View article: Radical right populist debates on female Muslim body-coverings in Austria. Between biopolitics and necropolitics
Radical right populist debates on female Muslim body-coverings in Austria. Between biopolitics and necropolitics Open
The Austrian Parliament has passed three laws since 2018 that prohibit wearing Muslim body-coverings in public. This departure from a formerly tolerant approach is an outcome of ongoing anti-Muslim campaigns by the radical-right populist F…
View article: Right-wing populist affective governing: a frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration
Right-wing populist affective governing: a frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration Open
In the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ of 2015, right-wing populist discourses became increasingly commonplace. This article by Thiele, Sauer and Penz investigates the resurgence of nativist and anti-migration attitudes in Austria b…
View article: Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis
Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis Open
This article offers a collectively developed analysis of the Covid-19 crisis as it relates to contemporary cultures of rejection, i.e. the socio-cultural conditions in which authoritarian and right-wing populist politics thrive, in Europe.…
View article: Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis
Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis Open
This article offers a collectively developed analysis of the Covid-19 crisis as it
\nrelates to contemporary cultures of rejection, i.e. the socio-cultural conditions
\nin which authoritarian and right-wing populist politics thrive, in Eur…
View article: Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark
Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark Open
The article aims to integrate key concepts from social movement, citizenship and gender theories with a focus on (political) intersectionality at the interface of migration, race, gender and sexuality. It explores the responses from civil …
View article: Polanyian perspectives on the movements and countermovements of "our time": an introduction
Polanyian perspectives on the movements and countermovements of "our time": an introduction Open
Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned autho…
View article: Mobilizing shame and disgust: abolitionist affective frames in Austrian and German anti-sex-work movements
Mobilizing shame and disgust: abolitionist affective frames in Austrian and German anti-sex-work movements Open
This article analyses anti-sex-work mobilization in Austria and Germany since 2014. An affective perspective on the websites of these groups shows how their framings run the risk of establishing a disciplinary regime of governing people, o…
View article: Neoliberal technologies of social protection: affects and policy implementation
Neoliberal technologies of social protection: affects and policy implementation Open
In the context of Polanyi's 'double movement' of market forces and social protection this article explores the work of state agents and processes of subjectivation at the workplace according to the contemporary social policy paradigm of ac…
View article: Doing gender in public services: Affective labour of employment agents
Doing gender in public services: Affective labour of employment agents Open
The restructuring of state bureaucracies into service organizations and the new welfare state paradigm of activation have changed the work requirements of front‐line workers in public employment agencies across Europe. Public employment ag…
View article: Spaces of Right-Wing Populism and Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria. Identitarian Movement, Civil Initiatives and the Fight against ‘Islamisation’
Spaces of Right-Wing Populism and Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria. Identitarian Movement, Civil Initiatives and the Fight against ‘Islamisation’ Open
This article argues that the current right-wing social movements in Austria are taking part in a right-wing populist hegemonic project relying on anti-Muslim racism, anti-immigration sentiment and xeno-racism (Fekete 2001). Analysing texts…