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The Functions and Legitimization of Suffering in Calais, France

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 syst...

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Autor principal: Keen, David Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8246735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34219799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.12800
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spelling pubmed-82467352021-07-02 The Functions and Legitimization of Suffering in Calais, France Keen, David Peter Int Migr Special Issue Articles 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-12-08 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8246735/ /pubmed/34219799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.12800 Text en © 2020 The Authors. International Migration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Organization for Migration. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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