{"id":45,"date":"2010-02-22T23:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:00:17","slug":"ernesto-kiza-toedliche-grenzen-die-fatalen-auswirkungen-europaeischer-zuwanderungspolitikmuenster-lit-verlag-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/05-1\/reviews51\/ernesto-kiza-toedliche-grenzen-die-fatalen-auswirkungen-europaeischer-zuwanderungspolitikmuenster-lit-verlag-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernesto Kiza, T\u00f6dliche Grenzen \u2013 Die fatalen Auswirkungen europ\u00e4ischer Zuwanderungspolitik (M\u00fcnster: Lit Verlag, 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\t
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The author structured his work in four parts in order to offer a systematic analysis of the victimization of illegal immigrants. The first part gives an introduction to the theme of international migration, by providing an historical and empirical overview. The second part is dedicated to the theoretical explanation of the empirical facts presented in the first part. The third part examines the reason for international migration and the reaction to it in European countries. In the last part of his 410-page tome, Kiza discusses the impact of the European Union\u2019s immigration policy, by emphasizing its effects on the migrants and, in particular, their victimization.<\/p>\n

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It is a pity that the author is hiding behind the abstruse jargon of much contemporary political science in order to do something very important: to understand the actions of the different actors in the European immigration policy and the very impact that this policy has on the refugees trying to enter Europe.\u00a0 There is no necessity describing the fact that the nation-state is the actor in the international system with a phrase like: \u201cZum einen handelt es sich dabei um die Verfasstheit des internationalen Systems, die auf der Westf\u00e4lischen Ordnung basiert und als zentrale Pr\u00e4misse die Existenz souver\u00e4ner Nationalstaaten postuliert. Somit ist der souver\u00e4ne Nationalstaat der zentrale Akteur im internationalen System und nimmt daher eine zentrale Rolle bei der Beeinflussung und Formung internationaler Migrationsstr\u00f6me ein<\/em>.\u201d (p. 17) What has the Westf\u00e4lische Ordnung<\/em> to do with migration, except sounding very academic?<\/p>\n

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Neil Postmann pointed out that that \u201celite trades — physicians, lawyers, teachers, and scientists — protect their special status by creating vocabularies that are incomprehensible to the general public. This process prevents outsiders from understanding what the profession is doing and why.\u201d Postmann himself did not really oppose this; he saw it as a necessity. In this case, unfortunately, does the \u201ctechnical gobbledegook\u201d (Postmann) prevent the very people who should be interested in reading about it from getting the message.<\/p>\n

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It is not understandable why the author is hiding behind a technical language that makes the text inaccessible.\u00a0 It may be a sign of knowledge at the University of Kassel, where the author handed in his work, to be able to describe migration as an \u201cubiquit\u00e4res biologisches Ph\u00e4nomen<\/em>\u201d (p. 324), but for me as a reader it sounds just ridiculous. I still see the task of political science as to describe complex political phenomena in an understandable way, so as to provide politics with information and notions whereby to develop policy. It is a pity that the author did not make an effort to turn his PhD thesis into a readable text for its publication as a book. The topic and all the hard work invested into the research would have deserved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To begin with, the author included his moral judgment already in the title, the \u201dfatal consequences of the European politics towards immigrants\u201d (incidentally, the full title of Kiza\u2019s volume reads as follows: T\u00f6dliche Grenzen \u2013 Die fatalen Auswirkungen europ\u00e4ischer Zuwanderungspolitik. Eine theoretisch-empirische Untersuchung von Todesf\u00e4llen illegalisierter Migranten im Kontext neuer Migrationsdynamiken und restriktiver Migrationspolitiken<\/em>). This is an irritating approach for a research which was pursued in order to obtain a PhD degree in political science. Do I, as a reader, want to be told what I have to think, or has the author so little confidence in his findings that he has to tell me as well how I have to read it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,136,137,138,139],"coauthors":[1098],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews51","tag-emigration","tag-european-union","tag-immigration","tag-migrants","tag-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}