Essays about: "Bare Life"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 33 essays containing the words Bare Life.
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11. Danger, Docility and the Denial of Death: On Productive Forces of Violent Practices in Prison
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis establishes an understanding of violence as discourse in the setting of Turkish prisons, during the death fast in the early 2000s. It uncovers discourses embedded in the acts of torture, hunger striking and force-feeding, each able to produce certain kinds of subjects. READ MORE
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12. Biopolitical bodies at the Greek-Turkish border
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : On 27 February 2020, Erdogan announced that he would open the Turkish border, allowing refugees to cross into Europe. Greece’s response was the deployment of military forces and the suspension of asylum applications. READ MORE
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13. International biopolitics and “climate refugees” as bare life. A Critical Discourse Analysis of how the UN’s framing of “climate refugees” impacts climate related global humanitarian migration and refugee governance
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis investigates how the United Nations’ (UN) framing of “climate refugees” impacts global humanitarian migration and refugee governance in the context of anthropogenic climate change in which border zones become spaces of biopolitical decision making which impacts both governance strategies and International Relations as an academic field. It argues from a poststructuralist perspective that the UN’s discourse centred around climate change related human movement, the issue of “climate refugees” is downplayed, and “climate refugees” become bare life while their claims to legal protection are delegitimised. READ MORE
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14. Traveling to Uncertainty : Unaccompanied minors, humanitarianism and “bare life” in the aftermath of the Greek refugee crisis
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Abstract In the last years the refugee inflows towards Europe was striking, particularly in 2015 approximately 1 million refugees crossed the European borders, among the refugee population there were many children, amid those children there were also a special category; the unaccompanied children. The topic of this work is based on the highlighted issue of the unaccompanied minors in Greece. READ MORE
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15. Bare Life of Unaccompanied Children: A Critique on the Human Rights State-Centrism and the Right to Asylum in Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : The question of asylum seekers and refugee rights is one of the main examples which reveals the paradox of the citizen rights and human rights. This thesis aims to analyse the U-turn asylum policy of Sweden regarding unaccompanied minors from a critical perspective in this regard. READ MORE