Conclusion
Integration from Below
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20083476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronit Lentin (0009-0008-4166-4950, Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 182-200 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Migrant Activism and Integration from below in Ireland (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230369245_9 |
| OpenAlex | W2494835113 |
| ISBN | 9780230369245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In 2008 the veteran journalist John Pilger reported on the plight of a group of British citizens from the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a British colony given to the USA as a military base, leading to the expulsion of more than 2000 people, the entire population of Chagos, to Mauritius. Since the year 2000, several high court judgements described the acts of the British government, banning the Chagossians from ever visiting Chagos, as ‘illegal’, ‘outrageous’ and ‘repugnant’. Historian Mark Curtis (2004) described the Chagossians as ‘unpeople’, people whose lives have been deemed worthless and expandable, in the pursuit of British foreign policy goals. Pilger’s (2008) criticism of the total silence about this atrocity parallels the exclusion from the public sphere of the lives and contribution of asylum seekers and migrants lacking secure residency rights, also theorized by Luke Buhka of Anti-Racism Network Ireland as ‘unpeople’. Denied the basic right of abode by the law in the service of what Goldberg (2002) calls the racial state, these migrants are often reduced to a floating population, dispensable, removable, forever living in what Giorgio Agamben (2005) calls ‘the state of exception’. And ironically, the silence about immigrants and immigration is broken only when racial states enact restrictive immigration policies in order to ‘defend society’ (Foucault, 2003) from its immigrant others
Art · Garcia · Humanities · Immigration · Political science · Population · Racism · Refugee · Silence · Sociology · State (computer science) · African history and culture studies · Demography · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |