The article introduces the special issue's subject-matter. The intention of this volume is to overcome a number of major omissions and curtailed interests in the field of migration studies -deemphasizing gender and sexuality, ignoring the "intersectional" interplay of gender with other dimensions of inequality in migration societies, Eurocentric preoccupation, non-consideration of the agency of migrants and caught up in methodological nationalism.The authors come from different institutional contexts and academic disciplines and address quite different questions. However, all the contributions share a methodologically transnational and postcolonial-feminist analytical perspective, the perception of migrants as subjects provided with agency and a critical attitude towards the prevailing policies with regard to migrants and refugees in Europe. Schlüsselwörter Migration · Geschlecht · Sexualität · Postkolonialismus · Transnationalität
The illegitimate. Border and migration regimes from a bio-political perspectiveAbstract What connects the use of psychiatric assessment in the asylum proceedings of someone seeking refugee status in Germany due to their homosexuality, and proof of DNA test to be provided in the case of a family moving to France, with the wrist bone test for determining the age of underaged refugees in Austria? Against the backdrop of the current events related to migrants and refugees and their hegemonic political commentary and whilst engaging with modern day border and migration regimes, this paper analyses a specific form of state racism in modern democracies as the legacy of a traditionally accepted bio-political strategy. It begins with the external borders of the European Union and their fatal dimension, and attempts to outline the bio-political character that ultimately accepts these deaths. To leave someone to die is seen as the most extreme form of exclusion. Other, connected, forms of exclusion can be found in proceedings and legislation related to asylum and the rights of foreigners. Three case examples on this subject illustrate the intersectionality of discrimination and exclusion processes, and show from the perspective of a biopolitical analysis how the grand practice of differentiating between members of society deemed as legitimate and as illegitimate continues within the European Union.Keywords Centre · Periphery · EU external borders · Migration regimes · Biopower and bio-politics · Gender relations: Neo-racism and biological realism · State of emergency and emergency ordinance · Security rhetoric and need for control · Miniatures of right of residence proceedings in the European Union 1 Einleitung
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