Opening the blackbox of air deportation
The case of Switzerland's “Action Black Autumn”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10248928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Lüthi (0000-0002-7982-5851, Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Universität Leipzig, Germany, corresponding author), William Walters (0000-0002-2492-1504, Carleton University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 735-756 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00225266241278758 |
| OpenAlex | W4402547569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
In 1985, in an operation Swiss authorities termed “Action Black Autumn,” a group of (mainly) Zaïrean migrants were deported to Zaïre on Switzerland's first documented deportation charter flight. What later would become a routinised practice was at that point still experimental and encountered significant resistance. Based on primary sources, this article looks at expulsion beyond law and policy by focusing on the development of what we call deportation infrastructure. This move allows for a fuller appreciation of the material systems that mediate coercive mobility and shape struggles. The article especially zooms in on questions of violence, resistance and visibility. By engaging the case from these different angles, we will demonstrate that a perspective of infrastructure offers new insights about deportation as a practice
Action (physics · Archaeology · Deportation · Immigration · Physics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Political Theology and Sovereignty
The Promise of Infrastructure
Inside Immigration Detention
The Death of Asylum
Disappeared in plain sight
Strange passages
Security as controversy
Migration Infrastructure
Riding the rails of removal
Globalization and Borders
The Deportation Express
The Art of Forgetting
Street-level democracy
Violence and Visibility
Abject Cosmopolitanism
Do Politics Have Artefacts
Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research
Diving in magma
Hunger strikes, detainee protest, and the relationality of political subjectivization
Citizenship, deportation and the boundaries of belonging
The Geopolitics of Migration and Mobility
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Aviation as deportation infrastructure
Humanitarian Reason
Sweden
Visibility
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |