- Dec 1, 2025
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- Category: Abstract of 4th-icsh21
Abstract Book of the 4th International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities in the 21st Century
Year: 2025
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Organizing Panic: Policing Climate-migration in the Era of Mass Migration and Radicalization
Ioana Vrabiescu
ABSTRACT:
We do not live in a polarised world but a world of extremes. Scholarship on climate change and migration informs us on the multilayered framework’s requirement to analyse how people affected by climate-migration and its governance adapt or stand up against it. Radicalisation is created by a scarcity of commons, tolerance towards violent extremism, and wrongful communication of environmental harms. Specifically, radicalisation has risen globally as anti-migrant vigilante groups, displaying racist and misogynistic flavours. On the one hand, the literature on global policing of migration showed already how ‘the Other’ is socially and politically constructed (i.e., affective infrastructures) and how states’ organisations act to restore a so-called disrupted order: on the territory, at the border or online. Policing climate-migration is a response to the polarisation of migration and climate change, and uses emotional social dynamics—such as panic—that lead to radicalisation. On the other hand, acknowledging hydrofeminist critical and creative approaches to water politics and feminist political ecologies of the article offers a novel understanding of the nexus between water ‘crises’, radicalisation and (more-than-)human mobility. Feminist critiques on the climate-migration nexus show that most solutions promoting resilience and adaptation aim to restore a socio-ecological equilibrium under the patriarchal-capitalist extractivist system of domination. This article explains the role of organising extreme emotions and radicalisation to preserve the affective infrastructures of colonial global domination.
Keywords: Climate-Migration Policies, Policing Migration, Eu, Radicalisation, Hydrofeminism