Governing the Funnel of Expulsion: Agamben, the Dynamics of Force, and Minimalist Biopolitics

Johansen, Nicolay B.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669394.003.0015

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“…In line with findings from research on similar policy measures in other countries, including Germany (Ellermann, 2010), the Netherlands (Kalir and van Schendel, 2017) and Norway (Valenta and Thorshaug, 2011;Johansen, 2013), the minimum rights approaches used in Denmark and Sweden have had counterproductive effects on deportation rates. Yet they have also allowed governments to tacitly ignore the 'slow violence' of destitution, illegalization and degradation that is a direct effect of the deterrence policies (see Canning, 2018;Mayblin et al, 2019).…”

Section: Enforcing the Politics Of Minimum Rightssupporting

confidence: 62%

“…Much literature on migration control regimes focuses on the coercive state powers they mobilize, such as practices of policing, detainment and forced deportation (Bosworth, Parmar and Vázquez, 2018), and how they inflict direct, physical violence and punishment on unwanted foreign nationals. Yet migration control also operates through welfare services, which can be mobilized as instruments of migration control: for instance, when states adjust foreign nationals' access to essential social rights and services to an absolute humanitarian minimum (Johansen, 2013) or render them conditional upon cooperation with authorities in asylum or deportation processes (Rosenberger and Koppes, 2018). These policy measures, which can be understood as a form of indirect violence (Valenta and Thorshaug, 2011), are the focus of this chapter.…”

Section: Minimum Rights As Necropoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior research has suggested an understanding of minimum welfare approaches as a form of minimalist biopolitics (Johansen, 2013), which denies people who are conceived as unwanted by the state equal access to basic rights and services, including work, health care, education and welfare. The aim of such policies is ultimately to expel them from the territory and/ or the social body (Walters, 2011).…”

Section: Minimum Rights As Necropoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden

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2020

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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confidence: 62%

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Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden

Lindberg¹

2020

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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“…This is achieved mainly through their exclusion from work and welfare, as well as from all but the most acute medical treatment. Since the personal identification number (PIN) linking Nordic people to all parts of formal society serves as an inner wall against irregular residents, the policy is mainly about closing loopholes (Johansen 2013), such as police controls against car washes suspected of hiring irregular migrants. In Sweden, a 'life without those "last four digits"' (of the PIN) means being excluded from almost everything, even social activities like playing on a football team (DeBono et al 2015).…”

Section: State Of Un-welfarementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond deportation: researching the control of outward mobility using a space of flows logic

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Manuel Castells (1996) famously argued that human processes are increasingly operating according to the logic of flows and it has now become commonplace to analyse movements of people, information and commodities in terms of flows. However, scholars have been slow to capture the dynamics of border enforcement practices in these terms. In this article, we argue that ‘deportation’ can best be understood, not as a discrete practice that is unidirectional, territorial and wholly controlled by individual states, but as a range of diverse practices used by states (and sometimes undermined by other parties) to try to control the circulation of people within a dynamic supra‐national space. By focusing on ‘mobility control continuums’ operating in selected countries at the peripheries of Europe, we capture the dynamics of state intervention in trans‐border flows and thereby contribute towards developing concepts and methodologies for the criminological study of border controls that are ‘sensitive to the complexities of the global’ (Aas 2007).

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“…The Dutch case will be especially representative for other comprehensive welfare states, which have a relatively strong interest in excluding the unauthorised from labour markets and regular social provisions (see, for example, Engbersen, 2003). In 2006, Norway opened what are called 'waiting camps', where rejected asylum seekers are jointly housed and given elementary allowances, hoping that they will eventually decide to leave the country (Johansen, 2013). Indeed, since 1993, Germany has had what is called the Duldung ('toleration') system (Böcker and Vogel, 1997;Bosswick, 2000;Sainsbury, 2006).…”

Section: Secondary Poor Reliefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Back to the poorhouse? Social protection and social control of unauthorised immigrants in the shadow of the welfare state

Leerkes

2016

Journal of European Social Policy

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, De Swaan, a historical sociologist, speculated that heightened global interconnectedness, and the resulting increased potential for international migration, would lead to transnational social policies. In this view, states of richer countries would increasingly perceive an interest in financing social policies in poorer countries in an effort to reduce the need for the distant poor to migrate. By and large, such transnational social policies have not materialised. In this article, which focuses on ‘the Dutch case’, it is argued that international migration, and the desire by states to selectively limit international migration, is nonetheless leading to new forms of poor relief and poverty control, not in countries of origin but in countries of destination. In the shadow of the Western welfare states, we now find elementary and, in many cases, rather archaic practices of poor relief and anti-pauperism measures for certain categories of unauthorised immigrants. Scholarship on migration and citizenship indicates that the rights of immigrants increasingly resemble the rights of citizens, especially in comprehensive welfare states. This trend seems to be complemented, however, by a growing differentiation of social citizenship between those formally admitted (both citizens and residence permit holders) and those officially considered ‘illegal’ non-members.

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Governing the Funnel of Expulsion: Agamben, the Dynamics of Force, and Minimalist Biopolitics

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Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden

Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden

Beyond deportation: researching the control of outward mobility using a space of flows logic

Back to the poorhouse? Social protection and social control of unauthorised immigrants in the shadow of the welfare state

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