The boundaries of grievability : when do migrant lives matter
to political representatives in Slovakia?

J 2025

The boundaries of grievability : when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?

MOKRÁ, Mária a Ivana RAPOŠ BOŽIČ

Základní údaje

Originální název

The boundaries of grievability : when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?

Autoři

MOKRÁ, Mária a Ivana RAPOŠ BOŽIČ

Vydání

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Abingdon, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2025, 1369-183X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50402 Demography

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 3.100 v roce 2024

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2564867

UT WoS

001593245900001

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105019110320

Klíčová slova anglicky

Boundaries of grievability; hierarchy of Europeanness; migration; neoliberalism; racialization

Štítky

14231011, EV_FSS25, online first

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 10. 11. 2025 17:30, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The responses of Central European countries to the mid-2010s migration ‘crisis’ and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have been strikingly different, moving from strong anti-migrant stances to a wave of solidarity. Do these differences imply a shift in the political discourse on migration? We explore this question through the boundaries of grievability, a newly developed theoretical framework that adopts Butler’s concept of grievability for the cultural sociological analysis of political discourse on migration. This framework allows us to inductively uncover the conditions under which human lives matter. Focusing on the case of Slovakia, we show that the differentiated responses to migrants arriving in these two periods are in fact sustained by the same boundaries of grievability that locate them on opposing sides, based on their perceived: (1) ethnoracial closeness; (2) legitimacy of suffering; (3) economic contribution; and (4) contribution to the project of ‘Europeanness.’ The uneven allocation of grievability reflects complex hierarchies in which the migrants are posited in relation to each other, as well as to the native-born population. Based on our findings, we argue that the responses of Slovak political representatives to migration must be contextualised by the country’s ambiguous positioning within the hierarchy of Europeanness.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1698/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Society in times of crisis: The digital reorganisation of social practices

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Society in times of crisis: The digital reorganisation of social practices

Citovat

MOKRÁ, Mária a Ivana RAPOŠ BOŽIČ. The boundaries of grievability : when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2025, 20 s. ISSN 1369-183X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2564867.

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MOKRÁ, Mária a Ivana RAPOŠ BOŽIČ. The boundaries of grievability : when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia? \textit{Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies}. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor \&{} Francis, 2025, 20 s. ISSN~1369-183X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2564867.

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