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Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities…

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  • Claudio Minca

    (University of Bologna, Italy; 7788Macquarie University, Australia)

  • Alexandra Rijke

    (4508Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands)

  • Polly Pallister-Wilkins

    (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  • Martina Tazzioli

    (Goldsmiths College, The University of London, UK)

  • Darshan Vigneswaran
  • Henk van Houtum

    (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

  • Annelies van Uden

    (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Abstract

This Symposium reflects on the growing relevance of biopolitical perspectives in camps studies, border studies, refugee studies, and in particular in research at the intersection between mobility studies and political geography. The five interventions accordingly engage with questions regarding the use of biopolitics as an analytical framework, but also as a pervasive strategy and governmental tool in Western societies. Through an analysis of several empirical cases – most notably hotspots on the Greek Aegean Island, refugee’s forced hyper mobility in Europe, speech acts connected to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and the ‘voluntary return’ policies in Europe, and the paper borders created by visa systems – the authors indicate new possible fields of enquiry related to the biopolitical critically inspired by the work of authors such as Giorgio Agamben and Jasbir Puar, while also clearly restating the fundamental importance of Foucault’s original contribution to any biopolitical analytical framework today.

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  • Claudio Minca & Alexandra Rijke & Polly Pallister-Wilkins & Martina Tazzioli & Darshan Vigneswaran & Henk van Houtum & Annelies van Uden, 2022. "Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities…," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 40(1), pages 3-30, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:40:y:2022:i:1:p:3-30
    DOI: 10.1177/2399654420981389
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    1. Martina Tazzioli, 2020. "Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(1), pages 3-19, February.
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    1. Martina Tazzioli, 2023. "Digital expulsions: Refugees’ carcerality and the technological disruptions of asylum," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(7), pages 1301-1316, November.

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