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Citizenship Shadow; Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging, or, the Regularities of Migrant Irregularity

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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This talk introduces the proposition that citizenship and alienage (or migrant status) may be best understood as two key figures of a spectrum of bordered identities.
- categorical distinctions among different sorts of people configured in relation to territorially defined states by the differences in space produced by borders. Thinking with the concept of bordered identities, it becomes possible to better appreciate how bordered exclusions do an inclusionary work that is inseparable from the systemic processes of migrant illegalization and the subordination of migrant labour. By juxtaposing the scene of exclusion to what may be called the obscene of inclusion, we likewise complicate conventional notions of belonging and various sorts of abject belonging or membership come better into view. Hence, we begin to see not only the necropolitical extremities of regulatory regimes of border policing but also the biopolitical regularities that they produce - above all, the irregularity of irregular migration. In the shadows of a bordered world, then, migrant illegality emerges as the shadow of citizenship itself.

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
People
Nicholas de Genova
Keywords
politics
law
migration
compas
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 29/05/2013
Duration: 00:41:51

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