Containing the 'bad body' Coloniality, violence, and migration in 'Fortress Europe'

遏制“坏身体”“欧洲堡垒”中的殖民、暴力和移民

• 批准号: 2606538
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2606538
• 关键词: Containing; bad; body; Coloniality; violence

Parallel to the development of the media-declared 'refugee crisis', the role of Migrant Detention Centres (MDCs) has gained prominence as a fundamental strategy of border governance. Discourses which play upon the need to securitise European borders are often informed by notions of otherness. In fact, these discourses are deeply ingrained within the social, legal, and political identities which constitute European sovereignty, and are intimately linked to the continued presence of colonial imaginaries.Nowadays, these colonial imaginaries manifest themselves in multiple ways. In the proposed PhD research, I explore the relationship between coloniality and political violence in Europe by investigating how MDCs sustain, legitimize, and reproduce colonial notions and worldviews pertaining to the figure of the migrant. By researching this I aim to show how coloniality, that is, the enduring presence of colonial racial worldviews, continues to inform both public and institutional conceptions of migration. Moreover, I propose to consider MDCs as sites demonstrating the relationship between legitimized practices of political violence, and discursive and aesthetic expressions of coloniality; these latter referring to the presence of colonial imaginaries in our speech as well as our field of visibility and sensory perception. Following this, I critically analyse the relationship between public and institutional discourses on European identity and the existence and legitimation of MDCs. Ultimately, this reveals the necessary role that identifying the migrant as a "bad body" - i.e. a 'stranger' who we must contain and dispose of - may play in the construction of European identity.

在媒体宣称的“难民危机”发展的同时，移民拘留中心作为边境治理的一项基本战略的作用也越来越突出。关于欧洲边界安全化的必要性的讨论往往受到他者概念的影响。事实上，这些话语深深地根植于构成欧洲主权的社会、法律的和政治身份之中，并与殖民地的持续存在密切相关。在拟议的博士研究中，我探讨了殖民主义和政治暴力之间的关系，在欧洲通过调查如何MDC维持，合法化，并复制有关移民的数字殖民观念和世界观。通过研究这一点，我的目的是显示殖民地，也就是说，殖民种族世界观的持久存在，继续告知公众和机构的移民概念。此外，我建议将MDCs视为展示合法化的政治暴力实践与殖民性的话语和美学表达之间关系的场所;后者指的是我们话语中殖民主义的存在以及我们的可见性和感官知觉领域。在此之后，我批判性地分析了公共和机构话语欧洲身份和MDCs的存在和合法化之间的关系。最终，这揭示了将移民视为“坏身体”--即我们必须遏制和处置的“陌生人”--可能在欧洲身份的构建中发挥的必要作用。