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Subjected to what has been called a 'global mobility regime', refugees will often find that their destination countries have a limited number of pre-cut identities ready for them and allow them little leeway beyond these. In this paper, we will discuss representations of refugees in European popular culture following the so-called 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. We will analyse the narratives in these representations, and how these negotiate both what refugees are and should be, as well as what Europe, and more specifically the EU, is and should be. Through pathos, humour and shock, these workstwo pop songs, a concert film, a comic and a cartoondo not only convey narratives about the plight of refugees, but also work through how Europe experienced the 2015 crisis, and the ensuing, often conflicting, attitudes towards irregular migration that were expressed in European public discourse. We will discuss how this experience can be conceptualised as a 'boundary experience' that creates a before and after, as well as the possibility of new forms of identitya possibility that may be ultimately rejected. As they take up the topic of irregular migration, we find producers of popular culture lo

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Author

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar; Alberto Godioli

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)