Thinking Lampedusa: border construction, the spectacle of bare life and the productivity of migrants

Dines, Nick; Montagna, Nicola; Ruggiero, Vincenzo

doi:10.1080/01419870.2014.936892

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“…Indeed, a rescue rhetoric, argues Lila Abu-Lughod (2002: 789), "depend[s] on and reinforces a sense of superiority by Westerners" and to this we would add adult paternalism, with echoes of colonial missionaries and middle-class "child saving" movements of the early twentieth century. It turns upon narratives of individual suff ering, the "spectacle of bare life" (Dines et al 2014), which can defl ect attention from the political and economic roots of contemporary migratory fl ows. Further, it reduces questions of responsibility and support to the good will of a rescuer, who can easily withdraw support.…”

Section: Th E Troubles Of and With "Separated Child Migrants"mentioning

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Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants

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2018

Migration and Society

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This article analyzes coverage of separated child migrants in three British tabloids between the introduction of the Dubs Amendment, which committed to relocating unaccompanied minors to the UK, and the demolition of the unofficial refugee camp in Calais. This camp has been a key symbol of Europe’s “migration crisis” and the subject of significant media attention in which unaccompanied children feature prominently. By considering the changes in tabloid coverage over this time period, this article highlights the increasing contestation of the authenticity of separated children as they began arriving in the UK under Dubs, concurrent with representations of “genuine” child migrants as innocent and vulnerable. We argue that attention to proximity can help account for changing discourses and that the media can simultaneously sustain contradictory views by preserving an essentialized view of “the child,” grounded in racialized, Eurocentric, and advanced capitalist norms. Together, these points raise questions about the political consequences of framing hospitality in the name of “the child.”

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“…are represented in evocative and contradictory ways (Caviedes 2015;Dines et al 2014;Vickers and Rutter 2016). Child migrants are a part of these representations, but also apart from them.…”

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Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants

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2018

Migration and Society

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“…Agamben's writings on bare life and the state of exception have been especially influential within risk scholarship (e.g., de Goede, 2008), critical migration studies (e.g., Doty, 2007;Dines et al, 2014), and postcolonial scholarship (e.g. Sylvester, 2006).…”

Section: Biopolitics Necropolitics and Bare Lifementioning

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The Challenge of Unintelligible Life: Critical Security Studies’ Failure to Account for Violence Against Queer People

Stoffel¹

2018

IAPSS Politikon

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This article grapples with the inability of Critical Security Studies (CSS) to see and account for violence against queer people. It locates the absence of theorizing on anti-queer violence within existing critical security approaches in the failure to apprehend them as intelligible subjects or livable lives. It demonstrates these theoretical limitations through an exploration of Foucauldian frameworks within CSS, which inform dominant approaches to understanding violence. It also argues that the inability of CSS to account for anti-queer violence can be traced back to the presumption of an intelligible subject of violence on which any theoretical framework necessarily relies. The impossibility to account for anti-queer violence, due to the very nature of 'queerness', provides fruitful avenues for thought within CSS. This article therefore is a call for critical security scholars to take the challenge of unintelligible life seriously.

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“…The protest's trigger was the decree of regularisation passed by Berlusconi's government in August 2009, which selectively regularized the undocumented migrants who were working as so-called 'colf e badanti' -carers providing assistance to elderly people, and excluded those who did not belong to these categories. In the 1990s and early 2000s Italian governments frequently used regularisations to control migratory flows and to assuage growing anti-migrant rhetoric and the public demand for control over illegal immigration (Ambrosini 2013;Dines, Montagna, and Ruggiero 2015).…”

Section: Regularisation As An Exclusionary Tool To Control Migratory mentioning

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Dominant or subordinate? The relational dynamics in a protest cycle for undocumented migrant rights

Montagna

2017

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Thinking Lampedusa: border construction, the spectacle of bare life and the productivity of migrants

Cited by 69 publications

References 19 publications

Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants

Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants

The Challenge of Unintelligible Life: Critical Security Studies’ Failure to Account for Violence Against Queer People

Dominant or subordinate? The relational dynamics in a protest cycle for undocumented migrant rights

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