The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration

Ariadna Estevez

doi:10.5771/9781793653307

Summary

Using examples from the United States—Mexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich countries or regions. Estevez merges necropolitical analysis with postcolonial migration and offers a new framework to study the set of policies, laws, institutions, and political discourses producing a profit in a legal context in which habitat devastation is legal, but mobility is a crime. Violence, deprivation of food or water, environmental contamination, and rights exclusion are some of the tactics used in extractivist capitalism. Private and state actors alike, use necropower, both its first and third world versions, to make people, living and dead, a commodity.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5329-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5330-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 128
Product Type: Monograph

1. Cover No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
5. List of Abbreviations No access
The Apparatus of Forced Migration Necropolitical Production and Management No access Pages 1 - 24
Producing Forced Migration No access Pages 25 - 46
From the Asylum Seeker to the Forced Migrant No access Pages 47 - 68
Managing Forced Migration No access Pages 69 - 94
Conclusion No access Pages 95 - 106
Bibliography No access Pages 107 - 122
Index No access Pages 123 - 126
About the Author No access Pages 127 - 128