The Emergence of a New Security Apparatus in Greece: The Securitization of the Refugee/Covid-19 Crisis Nexus

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Partecipazione e Conflitto Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI:10.1285/i20356609v14i1p341

Georgia Dimari

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to illustrate the securitization processes of the Covid-19 in Greece and the impetus they gave for the anew securitization of migrants and refugees. It is argued that their connectedness became feasible through their discursive presentation as a 'double crisis'. The central argument of this article is that two sub-components of the securitization of Covid-19 were also securitized, individuals and individual responsibility. The article hence posits the argument that these processes resulted in a quadruple securitization. More specifically, the discourse analysis conducted in speech acts of government and scientific actors reveals that migration and the refugee issue, Covid-19, individuals and individual responsibility are successfully securitized as there are all these elements articulated by the Copenhagen School – existential threats, securitizing actors, referent objects, emergency measures and audience acceptance – that make the securitization of each above issue successful. What is introduced and supported here, then, is that these securitization processes prompted the emergence of a new security apparatus in Greece.

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希腊新安全机构的出现：难民/新冠肺炎危机关联的证券化

本文旨在说明新冠肺炎在希腊的证券化过程，以及它们为移民和难民的新证券化提供的动力。有人认为，通过他们作为“双重危机”的话语表述，他们的联系变得可行。本文的中心论点是，新冠肺炎证券化的两个子组成部分也是证券化的，即个人和个人责任。因此，文章提出了这样一种论点，即这些过程导致了四重证券化。更具体地说，在政府和科学行为者的言论行为中进行的话语分析表明，移民和难民问题、新冠肺炎、个人和个人责任都成功地安全化了，因为哥本哈根学派阐述了所有这些要素——生存威胁、安全化行为者、参考对象、，紧急措施和受众接受度，使上述每一次发行的证券化都取得了成功。因此，这里介绍和支持的是，这些证券化过程促使希腊出现了一个新的安全机构。

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Partecipazione e Conflitto POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： PArtecipazione e COnflitto [PArticipation and COnflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies. PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action. Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level. All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension. The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.