Performing spaces; Structures of Control and Claims of Rights in sites of ‘Irregularity’
2011 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
In dialogue with Critical perspectives in the field of Forced migration, this thesis aims to explore the spaces of „irregularity‟ regarding unaccompanied minors living non-status in the city of Malmö. With a theoretical departure in the ontological ideas of Hanna Arendt and Giorgio Agamben, the perspective of the Autonomy of Migration, and the concepts of „Acts of Citizenship‟, the thesis argues that these spaces are structured by multiple mechanisms of control, such as deportability, racism, poverty and precarity. In addition, the thesis investigates how these structures of control are contested by the minors. As the „irregular‟ subject in its presence challenges the Nation-state „order‟, the study argues that all her or his acts must be interpreted as confrontations. Hence the study aims to highlight the claims of rights and freedoms performed, not only by the minors themselves but also by the social networks surrounding them. The research is built upon fieldwork with non-status minors, asylum rights activists and semi-grass root actors in the spring of 2011 in the city of Malmö. Influenced by Methodological and Epistemological perspectives of Critical Ethnography and Action Research, the thesis also contains a normative requisite to deconstruct and question hegemonies and marginalizing structures.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle , 2011. , p. 52
Keywords [en]
Irregular migration, Clandestinity, Unaccompanied children, Deportability, Acts of citizenship, Autonomy of migration, Critical theory, Critical Ethnography, Action research, Arendt, Agamben, Malmö
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22380Local ID: 12568OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-22380DiVA, id: diva2:1482306
Educational program
KS GPS Political Science - Global Politics
2020-10-272020-10-272022-06-27Bibliographically approved