IZBEGLICE (REFUGEES), AZILANTI (ASYLUM SEEKERS) AND ILEGALNI MIGRANTI (ILLEGAL MIGRANTS) IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN SERBIA: AN OVERVIEW OF CONCEPTS IN A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
IZBEGLICE (REFUGEES), AZILANTI (ASYLUM SEEKERS) AND ILEGALNI MIGRANTI (ILLEGAL MIGRANTS) IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN SERBIA: AN OVERVIEW OF CONCEPTS IN A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
Author(s): Marta Stojić MitrovićSubject(s): Political history, Political behavior, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: refugees; asylum; migrants; Serbia; concepts;
Summary/Abstract: The present discourse concerning asylum and irregular migration, with all its concepts and institutions, techniques and code of conduct, was introduced in the Republic of Serbia through the EU Accession process. As a prerequisite for visa liberalization with the EU (achieved in 2009), Serbia signed readmission agreements with the EU and its member-states and adopted the Asylum Law (Zakon o azilu 2007) and the Law on Foreigners (Zakon o strancima 2008). However, related notions and legal instruments existed in the periods that preceded it. In this text I offer a diachronic overview of conceptual and procedural differences and discuss their entanglements, merging, spilling over and confrontation. In such a way, my aim is to point out their use as political statements in particular, as performatives affecting national and international political contexts.
Journal: Narodna umjetnost - Hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku
- Issue Year: 57/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 147-167
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English