Rajojen biopolitiikka : tiedollinen alttius turvapaikkapuhutteluissa

Puumala, Eeva

doi:10.51809/te.105292

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“…Read through an anthropological lens, Migri's asylum decisions display technologies of distance and standardization. We identified techniques to distance the bureaucrat from the applicant in interviews, such as mediation through translators (Puumala 2018), typing the ongoing interview, and even a glass partition to minimize direct contacts with the asylum-seeker in the same room. Paper was another technique for distancing the bureaucracy from the applicant.…”

Section: Bureaucratic Assignment To Governmental Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As each person's case was processed individually, one brother participating the protest could receive asylum, while the other's application was rejected, although their cases were identical. Asylum bureaucracy reduces complex individual situations to simplified categories (Tazzioli 2014; Puumala 2018). Refugees fled personal experiences of violence, hopelessness, and conflicts with influential groups that did not automatically fall under the general categories of persecution.…”

Section: Bureaucratic Assignment To Governmental Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Papers of the Paperless: Governmentality, Technologies of Freedom, and the Production of Asylum-Seeker Identities

Salmenkari

Aldawoodi

2023

International Migration Review

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Refugees become asylum-seekers not only because the receiving country gives them the bureaucratic-legal status but also because they start to identify with the status. This article examines how refugees learn to be asylum-seekers even when they question asylum decisions. It uses Foucault's idea of governmentality to assess how governmental policies become translated into asylum-seekers’ collective and personal conducts as asylum-seekers, sometimes in ways that undermine the official policy. This article introduces the idea of papered governmentality, in which the production of papers is a governmental technology to manage not only populations but also personal identities and conducts. It investigates how asylum-seekers’ own role in papered governmentality as receivers, producers, and users of various papers in the asylum process transforms their conducts and identities in ways that reshape how they are governed. The empirical research site was an asylum-seekers’ protest in Finland where the first author conducted participant observation about how papers included in the asylum process were collected, read, discussed, circulated, and co-produced. The article finds that when migration control utilizes laws, bureaucratic documents, and other liberal governmental technologies designed to modify autonomous individuals’ own decisions to migrate, it produces not only control but also identification with the host country and some freedom to choose how to act with governmental decisions.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Bureaucratic Assignment To Governmental Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%