The functions and legitimization of suffering in Calais, France

Keen, David ORCID: 0000-0002-7218-8378 (2021) The functions and legitimization of suffering in Calais, France. International Migration, 59 (3). 9 - 28. ISSN 0020-7985

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Abstract

The instrumentalisation of disaster – long considered a feature of wars and famines in Africa, for example – has now been brought right into the heart of Europe. Suffering in Calais has been manipulated for the purpose of deterrence and for domestic political purposes, and forms part of a wider system of outsourcing violence and suffering that has been legitimised through Arendt’s “action as propaganda” and through perverse distributions of shame.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14682435
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author
Divisions:	International Development
Subjects:	J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2020 16:06
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 02:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107146

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