The functions and legitimization of suffering in Calais, France
Keen, D.
(2021).
The functions and legitimization of suffering in Calais, France.
International Migration,
59(3), 9 - 28.
https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12800
(2021).
The functions and legitimization of suffering in Calais, France.
International Migration,
59(3), 9 - 28.
https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12800
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.
