The modern state, the citizen, and the perilous refugee

Sicakkan, Hakan G.

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“…Research on refugee protection regimes and refugee subjectivities has been conceptualized as a highly productive space for analyzing the workings of Foucault's accounts on governmentality and biopolitics (Darling 2011;Dikeç 2009;Gill 2010;Lippert 1999;Muller 2004;Nadig 2002;Sıcakkan 2004;Soguk 1999). This article follows a similar approach by examining the notion of uncertainty from this theoretical standpoint.…”

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Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum

Biehl

2015

Social Analysis

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This article addresses the question of how to theorize the relation between uncertainty and governmentality with regard to displacement and its consequences. It explores the experiences of asylum seekers in Turkey and the bureaucratic processes of refugee status determination, local dispersal, and third country resettlement, illustrating two main points throughout. First, 'protracted uncertainty', characterized by indefinite waiting, limited knowledge, and unpredictable legal status, is a central element of the experience of being an asylum seeker in Turkey. Second, this uncertainty serves to demobilize, contain, and criminalize asylum seekers through the production of protracted uncertainty, which in turn is normalized as a necessity of bureaucracy and/or security. The article invites readers to question the governmentalities of asylum and border regimes that not only discipline refugees' everyday movements but also determine the uncertainty of 'refugeeness'.

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Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum

Biehl

2015

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“…As is precisely pointed out by Chimni, 'the contemporary international law has an imperial character. ' 16 .…”

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“…Canada's culture of inclusiveness could be credited for its success in not only refugee settlement but also their integration. The multicultural policy adopted by Canadian government since 1971 further helps in increasing the possibility of integration for refugees along with the freedom to practice their own culture [16]. Moreover, the presence of private as well as government sponsorship for refugee settlement renders it possible to develop an easy path for refugees from their reception to better livelihood.…”

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Understanding the Politics of Refugee and A Way Forward

Hemaadri¹

2017

J Pol Sci Pub Aff

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Abstract1951 Convention has widely been adopted as the standard framework to deal with refugee issue, whether through being a signatory of convention or replicating the principles while deliberating over a national or regional refugee law. The paper would attempt to reveal the political basis of the refugee law and analyze the portrayal of the figure of refugee. Moving beyond the debate of having or not having a refugee law, it would accentuate the need to develop a multicultural space that could make integration, and not merely incorporation, for refugees permissible.

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Questioning the Dynamics and Language of Forced Migration in Asia: The experiences of ethnic Chinese refugees

Madokoro¹,

Ho²,

Peterson³

2014

Mod. Asian Stud.

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To what extent are different parts of the world exceptional when it comes to the history of forced migration and refugee experiences? For instance, is forced migration in Asia distinct from developments elsewhere? Or is forced migration in Asia part of wider processes of displacement and emplacement so characteristic of the modern world? Over the past few decades, the fields of refugee and forced migration studies have ballooned. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, political science, geography, and history have sought to understand the nature of population displacements in the modern world. Much of the early scholarship in this field focused on Europe in the immediate aftermath of the First and Second World Wars. Scholars have also sought to understand the nature of protracted refugee situations in Africa.1 More recently, scholars have investigated forced migration within globalized and transnational frameworks.2 Yet no sooner had scholars started to think of displacement in these terms than critics began to contend that the unique, and localized, dimensions of displaced populations, including refugees, forced migrants, and internally displaced people, were being ignored. Questions about what is gained and what is lost in approaching the study of modern refugee populations from various vantage points now frame much of the work in the fields of refugee and forced migration studies.3

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The modern state, the citizen, and the perilous refugee

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum

Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum

Understanding the Politics of Refugee and A Way Forward

Questioning the Dynamics and Language of Forced Migration in Asia: The experiences of ethnic Chinese refugees

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