Production of ‘abstract crisis’ and irregular human mobilities
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Date
2019-08Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
This thesis argues that political representation of space as being consisted of
territorially bounded states leads to the impulsion to see an uncontrolled movement
as risky, and eventually to call the event as crisis. By way of concentrating on three
specific scholarly journals on migration movements, it aims to enlighten the
question: who/what turns an event into crisis at global scale, and why? Through
focusing on how migration literature explains what constitutes crisis, the thesis
investigates how did the transition to calling migration a crisis take place and why.
In pursuing the question, the thesis creates a theoretical framework by
deconstructing IR space and human mobility with the help of Lefebvre and
Cresswell. By asserting its own concept – ‘abstract crisis’, the thesis provides
typology and taxonomy of the migration studies categorized under three crisis
types.