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Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes: Anthropological Perspectives
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Abstract Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought to dissipate. Protection and control channel agency through mechanisms of either tutelage and victimisati... view more
Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought to dissipate. Protection and control channel agency through mechanisms of either tutelage and victimisation or criminalisation. This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge essentialisation. This violence is international, national, society-based, internalised, and embodied - and it urgently needs due scholarly attention.... view less
Keywords
flight; migration; displacement; exclusion; violence; anthropology
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
286 p.
Series
Forced Migration Studies Series, 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839458020
ISSN
2751-1553
ISBN
978-3-8394-5802-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed