{"id":2874,"date":"2019-03-12T14:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2874"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:17","slug":"crisis-what-refugee-crisis-the-business-of-business-as-usual-in-eu-migration-governance","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/crisis-what-refugee-crisis-the-business-of-business-as-usual-in-eu-migration-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis, what (refugee) crisis? The business of \u2018business-as-usual\u2019 in EU migration governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1489\" height=\"941\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1.jpg 1489w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1-160x101.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1-240x152.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1-400x253.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Mar-19-Carmel-1-360x228.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk examines how the&nbsp;<em>idea&nbsp;<\/em>of&nbsp; \u2018the refugee crisis\u2019 emerged at a specific historical moment in the European Union, what happened to this idea and why it matters. Using tools of policy anthropology Dr. Carmel shows how the idea of \u2018the refugee crisis\u2019 has given meaning and impetus to specific governing practices. In translation over time, both the emblematic figure of \u2018the refugee\u2019, as well as the lives of actual \u2018refugees\u2019 have slipped from view. At the same time, these practices disguise the political and moral economies of \u2018business-as-usual\u2019 migration governance in the EU. The idea of \u2018the refugee crisis\u2019 was adopted as a political strategy that calcifies structural inequalities between states; between private market actors and \u2018the Union\u2019; and patterns of exclusion, detention, exploitation, and expulsion for migrants. The \u2018refugee crisis\u2019, with its manifold meanings and interpretations, has been used to strategically privilege particular practices of EU migration governance. Most importantly, these practices rest on and reproduce social, political and economic inequalities in and beyond the Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Emma.Carmel-photo-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Emma.Carmel-photo-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Emma.Carmel-photo-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Emma.Carmel-photo-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Emma.Carmel-photo.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talk by:<br>\n<strong>Emma Carmel<\/strong><br>\nAssociate Professor<br>\n<strong>Department of Social &amp; Policy Sciences<\/strong><br>\n<strong>University of Bath, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Carmel is Associate Professor at the University of Bath, UK. She works at the intersection of sociology, political economy and politics, researching the social and political dynamics of public policy governance. Her publications include:&nbsp;<em>Governance Analysis: critical enquiry at the intersection of politics, policy,&nbsp;and society<\/em>&nbsp;(2019 Edward Elgar);&nbsp;<em>Re-thinking European Social Citizenship<\/em>&nbsp;(2019, Routledge, co-authored);&nbsp;<em>Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration<\/em>&nbsp;(2020 Edward Elgar, co-edited). She has published widely on different dimensions of the EU\u2019s transnational governance of migration. She is starting a new phase of work on the normalization of digital statehood and digital governance as an everyday governmental practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[44],"cu_event_audience":[9],"class_list":["post-2874","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-connected","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2019-03-19T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2019-03-19T17:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"A602","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2874\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}