Racism and discursive belongings

This paper is based on the assumption that migration movements irritate the orders of belonging associated with and produced by symbolic, structural, legal, and territorial borders. In the discourses accompanying such crises, these crises themselves become thematic in a certain way and can thus be understood and contextualized. In their thematization, solutions to the respective crises are also presented as desirable. In this sense, they can also be understood in terms of their contribution to a (European) subjectivation. Discourses have the quality of education insofar as they convey world and self-relations by means of which individuals can (learn to) understand themselves as subjects. In the field of migration, discourses are connected with symbolic orders of belonging, which are often closely related to racisms. (DIPF/Orig.)