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Violent inaction : the necropolitical experience of refugees in Europe
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Davies, Thom, Isakjee, Arshad and Dhesi, Surindar (2017) Violent inaction : the necropolitical experience of refugees in Europe. Antipode, 49 (5). pp. 1263-1284. doi:10.1111/anti.12325 ISSN 0066-4812.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12325
Abstract
A significant outcome of the global crisis for refugees has been the abandonment of forced migrants to live in makeshift camps inside the EU. This paper details how state authorities have prevented refugees from surviving with formal provision, leading directly to thousands having to live in hazardous spaces such as the informal camp in Calais, the site of this study. We then explore the violent consequences of this abandonment. By bringing together thus far poorly integrated literatures on bio/necropolitics (Michel Foucault; Achille Mbembe) and structural violence (Johan Galtung), we retheorize the connections between deliberate political indifference towards refugees and the physiological violence they suffer. In framing the management of refugees as a series of violent inactions, we demonstrate how the biopolitics of migrant control has given way to necropolitical brutality. Advancing geographies of violence and migration, the paper argues that political inaction, as well as action, can be used as a means of control.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Refugees -- Violence against -- Calais (France) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Antipode | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0066-4812 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 5 November 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 49 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1263-1284 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/anti.12325 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 June 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 April 2019 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) |
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