Biopolitics of Ejector States
Keywords:
Biopolitic, migrants, Ejector states, Internment Centres for Foreigners, semi-persons, nonpersons
Abstract
The biopolitics of migrants is based on the allow to enter-reside or expel binomial. Immigration laws are designed around two axes: first, the control of migration in terms of the labor market and the requirements of the economy and, secondly, the policing and prosecution of illegal immigration. To achieve the first axis of the binomial, namely allow to enter-reside, states deplloy mechanisms to control immigrants envisaged as a productive workforce. States also create control-punishment mechanisms for migrants who violate the requirements for entry and residence in the country. Here biopolitics on migration overlaps with, or takes shape through, the exercise of sovereignty by the Leviathan. The control measures and sanctions that governments apply to the undocumented have created an powerful machinery of coercion within the institutions of the rule of law to the point of converting it into an expelling state.Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Article download
Crossmark
Published
2013-02-26
How to Cite
Silveira Gorski H. C. (2013). Biopolitics of Ejector States. Política y Sociedad, 49(3), 497-517. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_POSO.2012.v49.n3.38551
Section
Monographic
License
In order to support the global exchange of knowledge, the journal Política y Sociedad is allowing unrestricted access to its content as from its publication in this electronic edition, and as such it is an open-access journal. The originals published in this journal are the property of the Complutense University of Madrid and any reproduction thereof in full or in part must cite the source. All content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 use and distribution licence (CC BY 4.0). This circumstance must be expressly stated in these terms where necessary. You can view the summary and the complete legal text of the licence.
