The Issues of Refugee Integration in the European Civil Society Discourse

Abstract

In recent years on the background of Syrian civil war, an increasing flow of refugees to European countries was observed. The intensity of these migration processes raises the complexity of problems related to refugee’s safe mobility and integration processes accompanied by strict and enclosed migration policy in many European countries. In the crater of these developments, the role of civil society gets more significance. Particularly fictionalization of CS institutions defined with instrumental and discursive meanings, on the one hand, manifests itself by humanitarian-supportive, voluntary missions of CS subjects, on the other hand with articulated critical discourse and different forms of its implication (New social movements, for instance) in the sphere of CS. Thus, this paper based on the analysis of iconographic elements of CS discourse explores the hegemonic role of liberal democratic orientations and normative value systems, as well as discursive implementations of transnational paradigm.