1. Zur Post-Autonomie der Migration: (Junge) Geflüchtete zwischen kämpferischer und friedlicher Agency.
- Author
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HOFFMANN, FELIX and OTTO, LAURA
- Subjects
POLITICAL refugees ,BORDER security ,CRITICAL theory ,IMMIGRANTS ,AGENT (Philosophy) ,CIVIL disobedience - Abstract
Contemporary research on migration and border regimes highlights that migration produces effects beyond border control, as migrants act autonomously (at least partially) as individual or collective agents. On the discursive level, many representations tend to foster imaginaries of refugees as autonomous political fighters which overlooks their frequently peaceful aims and thereby ignores non-violent (micro)politics. Providing an example from Laura Otto’s fieldwork with young migrants on Malta, we claim first, that it is important for critical migration theory not to subsume diverse forms of agency and concrete actions of migrants too easily under the umbrella of the autonomy of migration, as autonomy is to be regarded as a highly ambivalent concept and not as an aim in itself. Second, we propose to clearly distinguish between belligerent and peaceful forms of political agency. Beyond an understanding of autonomy as combative by principle, a post-autonomous viewpoint takes interdependencies into consideration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023