Virtual innocence. On the status of the children of European departees in northeast Syria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7767439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadia Fadil (0000-0002-3230-424X, KU Leuven Humanities and Social Sciences Group, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Leuven, Belgium, corresponding author), Marijke Van Buggenhout (0000-0002-3532-0827, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium), Els Dumortier (0000-0002-8171-3963, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 854-874 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2022.2089536 |
| OpenAlex | W4283587564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 44 |
About 700 European children are stranded with their mothers in the detention camps in northeast Syria. They are children of European departees who travelled to the Levant after 2012 to join one of the fighting forces against the Syrian regime. Most European countries refuse to repatriate these children because of their parents, who are considered terrorists. This paper investigates the status of these children through the analysis of the political and media-debates and ongoing collaborative ethnographic research in Belgium. We argue that these children reside in a condition of virtual innocence, which is characterized by a continuous interrogation of their social, political, and ontological status as well as their right to life. This condition of virtual innocence also sheds a different light on the state of exception: rather than being expressed through a permanent ban, it becomes manifested through an undecided and pending inclusion into the bios
Criminology · Ethnography · Inclusion (mineral · Innocence · Interrogation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Centuries of childhood
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Counter-Radicalisation
Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands
Casting Out
Theorizing Surveillance
Homo Sacer
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The Swedish Mujahideen
Talking to Foreign Fighters
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects
EU’s Response to Foreign Fighters
A History of Belgium's Child Protection Act of 1912 The Redefinition of the Juvenile Offender and His Punishment
The radicalisation of citizenship deprivation
Islamophobia and the Europeanness of the other Europe
The origins of totalitarianism
What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to Isis
The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion
Compassion and Repression
Child Soldiers, International Humanitarian Law, and the Globalization of Childhood
That's enough about ethnography
The Virtualization of Citizenship
Children, Childhoods, and Violence
A world without innocence
The barbarism of civilization
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |