The new necropolitical governmentality of migration:
from the deportation regime to the forced internal displacement regime
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https://doi.org/10.32870/in.vi29.7302Keywords:
Internal Forced Displacement, Forced Migration, Asylum, Necropolitics, Refugee CrisisAbstract
The article argues from a necropolitical perspective —the sovereignty over death— that the global regime of migration and asylum is shifting towards one of forced internal displacement. It contends that First World countries have driven this change by progressively and entirely securing and closing their borders since 2015, while instrumentalizing necropolitical administration institutions of forced migration to achieve their goal. Through UNHCR, the First World has prepared public and political opinion by making profound changes to the methodology and presentation of its annual forced human mobility statistics. This fact has justified the production of new legal instruments that make asylum and documented migration more difficult, while concealing the increase in internal displacement and inflating the expected behavior of refuge-seeking.Downloads
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