The 'threatening immigrant' in Flanders 1930-1980
Redrawing the social space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3640922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Swyngedouw (0000-0002-2251-4403, KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-340 |
| Publication date | 1995-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.1995.9976495 |
| OpenAlex | W2074178256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article reveals the comparable social mechanisms which have generated the social construction of threatening immigrants in Europe in the 1930s and 1980s. The analysis builds on Bourdieu's theory of the construction of social space and genesis of social groups. This semiotic‐praxiological approach is used to explain why the specific historical and social‐economic conditions of the 1930s and 1980s have led to the construction of Jews and Muslims as threatening immigrants. Our discussion focuses on the example of the ‘migrant problem’ in historical and contemporary political discourse in Flanders (Belgium). Whereas by the closing years of the 1930s the term ‘immigrant’ was used almost exclusively to refer to Jews, in the 1980s the word was being used to refer to Turkish and Moroccan guest workers. Despite the specific historical and social circumstances of Jewish and Muslim immigrants it is possible to identify parallel social mechanisms and discourses in the redrawing of the social space to create ‘threatening’ immigrants/foreigners. These mechanisms are religion‐based anti‐Judaism and anti‐Is‐lamism, rapid social and economic change which fuels anti‐Jewish/anti‐Muslim feeling for economic reasons, and (cultural) racism which is legitimised by internationally disseminated ethnic nationalism
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2019 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |