The Diffusion of Power and the International ‘Discovery’ of ‘Diasporas’

Kunz, Rahel

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“…In fact, biopolitics has become a widespread analytical tool for the examination of migration policy as an instrument of contemporary neoliberal governmentality (Bastos, 2008;Bigo, 2002;Bolaños, 2009;Ceyhan and Tsoukala, 2002;Fitzgerald, 2010;Kalm, 2005;Kelly, 2004;Kunz, 2008;Vaccotti, n/d;Yuing, 2011). Many of these works are based on Roberto Esposito's re-interpretation of Foucault's biopolitics (2005), in which he makes an analogy between the politics of life and the human body's immune system, saying that the latter fights exogenous threats the same way biopower fights "pathogen" forms of life threatening the majority.…”

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The Biopolitics of Asylum Law in Texas: The Case of Mexicans Fleeing Drug Violence in Juárez11The fieldwork for this article was possible thanks to the Research Fund 2012 of the Mexican Association of International Studies (amei). The author is grateful for amei's support.

Estévez¹

2013

Norteamérica

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Using Michel Foucault's concept of biopower, this article examines the role of asylum law in the control of Mexican migration to the U.S., arguing that U.S. authorities are using asylum law as a new means of regulating Mexican immigration. The article relies on theoretical input and empirical data to prove that there are extra-legal and technical legal issues allowing for the biopolitical use of asylum law, usually linked to sovereign power.

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The Biopolitics of Asylum Law in Texas: The Case of Mexicans Fleeing Drug Violence in Juárez11The fieldwork for this article was possible thanks to the Research Fund 2012 of the Mexican Association of International Studies (amei). The author is grateful for amei's support.

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2013

Norteamérica

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Constructing Liberal Subjects? Turkey’s New Diaspora Strategy

Bahçecik

2020

A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy

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Self-governing through Cultural Production in Diaspora-centric Space: A Comparative Study of Kurdistan’s Jews in Jerusalem and the Kurdish Diaspora in Berlin

Dag

2024

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This study examines how the self-organized social formations of Kurdistan’s Jews in Jerusalem and the non-Jewish Kurdish diaspora in Berlin engage in self-governing cultural production practices that they establish to regulate their communities’ cultural, emotional, and social affairs, address their challenges, and meet their objectives. The paper further analyzes the impact of cultural production on communities’ everyday lives. Specifically, self-organized social establishments embrace cultural production objects, including ethnic food, circle dances, music, and religious melodies, to stimulate cultural spaces in which community members interpret and consume cultural production’s symbolic meanings for a variety of objectives. These include, but are not limited to, the restoration of lived or ancestors’ narrated memories, the promotion of collective identities, and a sense of belonging. They also foster community formation and social cohesion, seek to surmount social and structural obstacles in their integration process, and advocate for their homeland-related politics and interests. However, these meanings and their consumption within both communities vary depending on their homeland ties and needs, barriers, and political conditions in new environments. Kurdistan’s Jewish initiatives capitalize on cultural production as a dynamic vehicle to reconstruct ancestral identities, evoke a sense of belonging, preserve ancestors' cultural heritage, reconnect with their ancestral roots, and promote social cohesion. However, non-Jewish Kurdish diaspora establishments in Berlin harness cultural production as a sociopolitical strategy to maintain the Kurdish identity, address refugees’ integration difficulties, form their cohesive and political community, and engage in homeland politics. My findings, based on ethnographic fieldwork, 87 in-depth interviews with cultural actors and community members in Jerusalem and Berlin, and participant observations over a seventeen-month period, illustrate how self-organized formations play a vital role in the self-governing cultural production process and how they impact their communities’ affairs, challenges, and objectives.

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The Diffusion of Power and the International ‘Discovery’ of ‘Diasporas’

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

The Biopolitics of Asylum Law in Texas: The Case of Mexicans Fleeing Drug Violence in Juárez11The fieldwork for this article was possible thanks to the Research Fund 2012 of the Mexican Association of International Studies (amei). The author is grateful for amei's support.

The Biopolitics of Asylum Law in Texas: The Case of Mexicans Fleeing Drug Violence in Juárez11The fieldwork for this article was possible thanks to the Research Fund 2012 of the Mexican Association of International Studies (amei). The author is grateful for amei's support.

Constructing Liberal Subjects? Turkey’s New Diaspora Strategy

Self-governing through Cultural Production in Diaspora-centric Space: A Comparative Study of Kurdistan’s Jews in Jerusalem and the Kurdish Diaspora in Berlin

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