Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15176/vol50no207
The Biopolitics of Refugeeness and Asylum in the Context of the Crisis of Political Asylum in the West
Duško Petrović
; Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Over the last thirty years, the phenomenon of refugeeness and asylum has become one of the central issues in the politics of Western liberal democratic states. This interest has produced some new politics (and policies) towards refugees and asylum seekers on the international and national level. The main thesis of the article is that these new politics (policies) have a common origin in the contemporary biopolitics. Bioplitical discourses and practices have a key influence on the politics of refugeeness and asylum on the international and national level. The biopolitics of refugeeness and asylum are characterized by several key points: humanitarianization of refugeeness, humanitarianization of asylum, policies of repression towards asylum seekers and normalization of the state of exception.
Keywords
refugeeness; asylum; biopolitics; humanitarianism
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112302
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Publication date:
19.12.2013.
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