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The Functions and Legitimization of Suffering in Calais, France
Author(s) -
Keen David Peter
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12800
Subject(s) - calais , shame , action (physics) , politics , political science , criminology , refugee , sociology , development economics , political economy , law , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science
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.