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

与媒体宣称的“难民危机”的发展平行，移民拘留中心（MDCs）的作用作为边境治理的基本战略已经得到突出。在需要将欧洲边界证券化的问题上发挥作用的话语，往往受到“他者”概念的影响。事实上，这些话语在构成欧洲主权的社会、法律和政治认同中根深蒂固，并与殖民想象的持续存在密切相关。如今，这些殖民时期的想象以多种方式表现出来。在拟议的博士研究中，我通过调查MDCs如何维持，合法化和再现与移民数字有关的殖民观念和世界观，探索殖民与欧洲政治暴力之间的关系。通过研究这一点，我的目的是展示殖民性，即殖民种族世界观的持久存在，如何继续影响公众和机构对移民的概念。此外，我建议将民主发展中心视为展示政治暴力合法化实践与殖民主义话语和美学表达之间关系的场所；后者指的是在我们的语言以及我们的可见和感官知觉领域中存在的殖民想象。在此之后，我批判性地分析了关于欧洲身份的公共和机构话语与MDCs的存在和合法性之间的关系。最终，这揭示了将移民视为“坏身体”——即我们必须收容和处理的“陌生人”——可能在构建欧洲身份方面发挥的必要作用。

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.