The Ukrainian Refugee “Crisis” and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics
Journal: Journal of Nationalism Memory & Language Politics
Year: 2022

Abstract This text brings into analytical focus the workings of whiteness within the politics regarding Ukrainian refugees in two neighboring countries, Austria and Czechia. This comparison aims to contextualize various racial hierarchies in which Ukrainian refugees are embedded, and to connect public discourses translated by mass media and critically accepted by scholars and experts with the personal experience of refugees and those recruited to help them in reception centers. We follow the lay