The role of non-elites and eyewitness videos in the visual securitisation of Calais asylum seekers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13020562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vaibhava Purandar Shetty (0000-0001-5861-3211, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 413-434 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-5637 • E-ISSN: 2057-5645 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/eis.2022.4 |
| OpenAlex | W4214656439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
With the advent of smartphones and social media, non-elites possess more resources to engage in politicisation and securitisation of issues. The increasing popularity and acceptance of eyewitness videos captured by non-elites presents new political-security implications, especially for the issue of migration and refugees, as witnessed during the European refugee crisis. The eyewitness videos the host population of Europe captured served as key heuristic artefacts for non-elites to engage in the securitisation and counter desecuritisation of asylum seekers. The production, visual, circulation, and audiencing aspects of eyewitness videos are significantly different from those of professional videos from news media and therefore can potentially articulate (in)security in distinct ways. I argue that the epistemic-political constitution of eyewitness videos and their online remediation through the complex networked act between the calculated security publics and video recommendation algorithms of social media play a key role in facilitating security articulations of asylum seekers. This is illustrated in the analysis of two popular eyewitness videos from Calais. The article examines how non-elites used eyewitness videos to politicise and securitise Calais asylum seekers
Calais · Criminology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Refugee · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |