The discipline of hope
Abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3607744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niina Vuolajärvi (0000-0002-4948-7214) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 19 |
| Pages | 4907-4927 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2023.2222916 |
| OpenAlex | W4380992012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article examines the role of hope in the stories of people with experiences of deportation collected during a photojournalistic research project following deportees from Europe. Drawing on the political philosophy of hope, specifically Ernst Bloch, this article explores the complex and ambiguous presence of hope and despair in the stories of deportees. Hope could present itself as denial, naïve optimism that everything will be fine, or as despair, a loss of hope. However, it also demonstrates itself in the persistence of not giving up hope for different futures. Building on Mariame Kaba's abolitionist thinking, the article illustrates how this 'discipline of hope' emerges as a survival strategy that has prefigurative socio-political dimensions. In the stories of deportees, this 'discipline of hope' was evidenced at the level of both imagination and practice; as a way to escape the post-deportation 'prison of one's home' or other unfavourable conditions people found themselves in. The interviewees' persistence in moving despite the border regime's violence reveals the system's ultimate failure to work against humans' aspiration to strive for better lives through mobility and points to the transformative nature of hope
Criminology · Denial · Deportation · Immigration · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Prison · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology
Deported
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After Deportation
The Death of Asylum
Golden Gulag
Territories of Difference
Encyclopedia of Case Study Research
Understanding Global Migration
What happens post-deportation? The experience of deported Afghans
The waiting game
Geographies of the future
Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders
Asylum Seeking, Border Security, Hope
Precarious intimacies – Europeanised border regime and migrant sex work
The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime
Touching Feeling
Deporting social capital
Living a Feminist Life
Ethnographies of Waiting
We Deport Them but They Keep Coming Back
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
Radical Hope in asylum seeking
Unsettling Potentialities
From the human to the planetary
The Land of Open Graves
Ambivalent Strategies
The Burden of Deportation on Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
Migration as Hope
Introduction
Spectacles of migrant 'illegality
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |