1.4 Das Nothilfe-Regime in Zahlen

Marti, Simone

doi:10.14361/9783839465745-005

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“…Therefore, people are legally prevented from realizing their dreams and living in dignity and community. These places have been described as spaces of internal border demarcation, as they partially include rejected refugees in the welfare system, while their status excludes them from society (Marti, 2023). While these processes of confinement come along with the processes of Othering and ‘demonization’ (Marti, 2023: 186), they are discursively accompanied by the inability in public debates in Switzerland to name the racism and disenfranchisement of asylum seekers (Wilopo and Häberlein, 2023: 92).…”

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“…These places have been described as spaces of internal border demarcation, as they partially include rejected refugees in the welfare system, while their status excludes them from society (Marti, 2023). While these processes of confinement come along with the processes of Othering and ‘demonization’ (Marti, 2023: 186), they are discursively accompanied by the inability in public debates in Switzerland to name the racism and disenfranchisement of asylum seekers (Wilopo and Häberlein, 2023: 92). As the regime of Nothilfe represents a regime of postcolonial aid in which welfare and confinement intersect, this regime is a mode of how coloniality operates in a postcolonial country that claims political neutrality.…”

Section: Empirical Historical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Labor Recruitment and Coloniality in the Agricultural Sector: On Plantation Archives, Underclassing, and Postcolonial Masculinities in Switzerland

Bolokan

2023

Critical Sociology

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This study provides insights into mechanisms of underclassing in modern society based on interviews with recruiters of agricultural workers in Switzerland. I show that narratives that racialize and ethnicize workers are nurtured by colonial legacies. This reveals that plantation practices and discourses have shaped Switzerland and remain as powerful means of enforcing agricultural racial capitalism. Furthermore, I argue that postcolonial masculinities drive these intersubjective relations. Tracing and situating these postcolonial subject formations on farms allows one to see how caring narratives entangle with a dehumanizing grammar and how this colonial logic is incorporated into social consensus on extractive labor practices. Finally, this reveals how coloniality operates in a postcolonial country that claims political neutrality.

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Section: Empirical Historical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Empirical Historical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%