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Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum
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Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force.
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Framing (State) Fragility
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Keith KrauseSebastian Haug
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Freedom and Solidarity
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Piotr KubasiakWojciech Bonowicz
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Belarusian Protests: In Search of Democracy, or the Restructuring of State Institutions
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornMarci ShorePavel Barkouski
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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How left-wing parties deal with immigration: Notes from France
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornMadeleine Schwartz
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Arts after Violence: How to Read the History of Ukrainian Art?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Kateryna IakovlenkoKatherine Younger
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Discussion: What is Wrong with Economics?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Robert Skidelsky
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Islam
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarSaid Arjomand
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994)
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Marci ShoreYuri Andrukhovych
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Social and Ecological Movements in “Apocalyptic Times”
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Adam RamsayLudger HagedornMatyáš Křížkovský
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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