Clone Lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-146
Author(s):  
Clare Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Reproduction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Human Cloning ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Identity And Difference

Chapter 4 focuses on fiction which responds to the prospect of human cloning following the birth of Dolly the sheep. Eva Hoffman’s novel The Secret deploys the trope of the clone to figure the sense of inauthenticity experienced by many second-generation Holocaust survivors and goes on to examine cloning’s potential to dislodge sexual reproduction as the cornerstone of the social order. Drawing on the work of Catherine Malabou, the chapter follows Hoffman’s representation of the clone as a figure portending the disruption of genealogy. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is read in the light of Giorgio Agamben’s theorization of ‘bare life’ and ‘states of exception’ and the novel’s clones are seen to represent those who are relegated to the category of bare life in contemporary global biopolitics, notably refugees and asylum seekers. The clones are also linked with Agamben’s understanding of the enigmatic relationship between the human and the animal and his concept of indifference and emphasis on a subjectivity which precedes the construction of identity and difference.

The Importance of Convention Status: A Case Study of the UK

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social And Economic Rights

Convention status accords refugees social and economic rights and security of residence in European countries of asylum. However, the trend in Europe has been to prevent asylum seekers reaching its borders, to reduce the rights of asylum seekers in countries of asylum and to use temporary protection as a means of circumventing the responsibility of long-term resettlement. This paper will provide a case study of the United Kingdom. It will examine the social and economic rights afforded to different statuses in the areas of social security, housing, employment and family reunion. It will explore the interaction of social and economic rights and security of residence on the experiences of those seeking protection. Drawing on responses to the crisis in Kosovo and on data from a survey of 180 refugees and asylum seekers in London it will show the importance of Convention status and the rights and security the status brings.

scholarly journals Vanishing Selves under Hong Kong’s Unified Screening Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pui Yan Flora Lau ◽  
Iulia Gheorghiu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Asylum ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Social ◽  
Total Institutions ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract Drawing on Erving Goffman’s analysis of total institutions and his concept of mortification of the self, the present article deals with the process of identity construction and identity loss among refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. We argue that the slow pace of processing of political asylum applications as well as the harsh restrictions imposed on rights to work and the minimal welfare provisions for refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong operate as means of isolating them from the broader society. Another consequence of these restrictive conditions becomes manifest in the loss of identity experienced by those who have been stuck in Hong Kong for many years waiting for their applications to be processed. Being unable to preserve the sense of identity they had in their countries of origin, they find themselves deprived of the social and institutional resorts necessary to forge a new one.

scholarly journals Estado de exceção como regra: a vida nua sob o “eclipse político” em Giorgio Agamben / State of exception as a rule: the bare life under the "political eclipse" in Giorgio Agamben

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Maria Do Socorro Catarina de Sousa Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Security ◽  
Original Objective

Um dos temas de maior relevância abordado por Giorgio Agamben diz respeito ao estado de exceção como paradigma político, ou seja, o estado de exceção não se restringe aos Estados totalitários, mas a uma prática governamental que vem se propagando rapidamente, inclusive nas sociedades democráticas. Assim, o presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar, a partir de duas obras que compõem o Projeto Homo Sacer, a saber, Homo Sacer: o poder soberano e a vida nua I (2002), e Estado de Exceção: homo sacer II (2004), os principais elementos que formatam a teoria agambeniana do estado de exceção como paradigma de governo e como o delineamento de suas teses nos permite falar em “eclipse político”, o qual está concretizado na impotência do cidadão diante do poder soberano, a figura híbrida que tem a sua disposição não apenas a máquina governamental, mas o próprio ordenamento jurídico desvirtuado de seu objetivo original de proteção e segurança jurídica para um complexo e malicioso mecanismo de manutenção da “ordem social”. AbstractOne of the most relevant topics addressed by Giorgio Agamben is the state of exception as a political paradigm, that is, the state of exception is not restricted to totalitarian states, but to a government practice that is spreading rapidly, even in democratic societies. Thus, this article aims to analyze, from two works that make up the Homo Sacer Project, namely Homo Sacer: sovereign power and naked life I (2002), and State of Exception: homo sacer II (2004) ), the main elements that form the agambenian theory of the state of exception as a paradigm of government and how the delineation of its theses allows us to speak in "political eclipse", which is concretized in the impotence of the citizen before the sovereign power, the hybrid figure which has at its disposal not only the governmental machine, but the legal system itself distorted from its original objective of protection and legal security for a complex and malicious mechanism of maintenance of the "social order".

The Dead are Coming

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Stümer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Other ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

The escalating death tolls of migrants seeking to enter Europe are a dramatic testimony to the cynical, dehumanizing, and violent fortification of the European Union, whereby refugees and asylum seekers have become the emblematic figures of contemporary political exclusion. Rather than emerge as a peaceful, open, and postnational community, fortress Europe increasingly relies on a process of (re)walling, evoking the legacy of the camp and redrawing colonial boundaries. Europe’s borders serve as expressions of “necropower” and contemporary biopolitical attempts at subjugating and distinguishing forms of “bare life,” as they regulate forms of life, death, and living death. At the same time, these “necropolitics” remain hidden by the necrogeography of the borderscape. The author argues that this deathscape escalates bare life into bare death as a form of nonrelational death enabled by the constructed otherness of the Muslim refugee. Reading this politics of bare death against Sophocles’s Antigone, this article considers how Europe’s deathscape is mediated and challenged. The author examines the art collective Center for Political Beauty and its controversial project of transporting the bodies of deceased migrants from Italy to Berlin in order to give the dead “dignified burials.” The author suggests that the artists engage a form of “corpse politics” using the ritual of the burial as a way to reintegrate the death of the other. This opening of the European soil enables a reimagining of European sovereignty, acknowledging the relations denied by bare death. The nomos of the earth is reinterpreted as a nomos of the soil, reenvisioning a Europe beyond borders and welcoming “difference” as the grounds for responsible politics.

Choose Your Words Wisely

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick F. Kotzur ◽  
Nora Forsbach ◽  
Ulrich Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract. Differences in word connotations can have far-reaching consequences. We investigated the content, and emotional and behavioral consequences of the social perception of fled people as a function of their label (“refugees” vs. “asylum seekers”; “war refugees” vs. “economic refugees” vs. “refugees”) using a factorial survey (n = 389). Based on qualitative data on perceived intentions associated with the labels, we deducted predictions regarding differences in the Stereotype Content Model and Behavior from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes Map. Participants evaluated refugees and asylum seekers similarly. Economic refugees were evaluated more negatively than war refugees or refugees, while the profiles of war refugees and refugees matched. These findings suggest that the choice of words to refer to fled people has profound consequences.

scholarly journals Foucault’s Affirmative Biopolitics: Cynic Parrhesia and the Biopower of the Powerless

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei Prozorov
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
East European ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

While Foucault’s work on biopolitics continues to inspire diverse studies in a variety of disciplines, it has largely been missing from the debates on the possibility of “affirmative biopolitics” which have been primarily influenced by the work of Agamben and Esposito. This article restores Foucault’s work to these debates, proposing that his final lecture course at the Collège de France in 1983–1984 developed a paradigm of affirmative biopolitics in the reading of the Cynic practice of truth-telling ( parrhesia). The Cynic problematization of the relation between truth and life and their transvaluation of conventional truths by relocating them to the domain of bare life not only seeks to transform one’s life in accordance with the truth but also, through the confrontation with the existing conventions and norms, to transform the world as such. Cynic parrhesia is thus biopolitical, insofar as it reclaims the power of one’s life from the social order and its rationalities of government and applies it to oneself, investing one’s existence with truth. Since Foucault developed this reading of Cynicism in the context of his political engagement on behalf on East European dissidents, the article proceeds to analyse the resonances between parrhesia and Václav Havel’s idea of “living within the truth,” elaborating the biopolitical significance of both practices. We conclude by addressing the implications of our interpretation for Foucault scholarship and the wider debates on biopolitics.

scholarly journals Kewirausahaan bagi pengungsi asing dan pencari suaka di Pekanbaru pada masa pandemi Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
Ahmad Jamaan ◽  
Muhammad Saeri ◽  
Yessi Olivia ◽  
Yusnarida Eka Nizmi ◽  
Irwan Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Entrepreneurial Motivation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
External Impact ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic Capacity

The existence of foreign refugees in Pekanbaru has had an external impact on the social environment of the society in which they are accommodated. Internally, the prohibition of refugees to work formally, it has had the impact of reducing the economic capacity of the refugees itself. Even though, many of them while in their home countries have special professions such as lecturer, lawyer, journalist, and others. Dealing with this reason, in order to strengthen the economy for refugees in Pekanbaru, community service activities are held in the form of introducing and exploring the potential of refugees, socializing the existence of refugees to the society, and entrepreneurship assistance. The activity of entrepreneurship is implemented through three components, namely entrepreneurial motivation, assistance in making products characterized by the country of origin of refugees and the introduction and marketing of these entrepreneurial products. Thus, this community service activities can provide the business independence for refugees in making culinary products and painting crafts. In its implementation, this community service could run well without the presence of refugees and asylum seekers because of absence of permission during Pandemic COVID-19 in Pekanbaru

scholarly journals Kloning Manusia dan Masalah Sosial-Etik

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aman *
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Human Cloning ◽  
Technology Utilization ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
Biological Technology ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Jump

In the context of Sociological, human cloning has been taken into consideration of endangering and threatening the social order which has been developed by man since their existence on earth. Cloning is also bringing negative upshot not only to social order but also to the social interaction which has been accepted as the basis of the harmony and peace between individual. The biological technology utilization was once only laid a hand on scientific knowledge ever since it was resulted on or after scientific exploration process. Yet directly or indirectly, cloning might originate the devastation of the basic principle of religion with its universal ethics. Cloning not only lies in the scientific land but further, it has made a long jump over the discipline of science such as ethic, Sociology, Economy, gender and religion. Keywords: human cloning, social problems, ethic, religion

scholarly journals LEGAL DIALECTICS OF INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE MIGRATION DETERMINATION IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
M. Alvi Syahrin ◽  
Pramella Y. Pasaribu
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
State Party ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Indonesia is not a state party to the 1951 Convention. There are no rights and obligations attached to Indonesia for the problem of asylum seekers and seekers. Their existence will be caused by community culture. The research method used is a normative legal approach by analyzing various laws in order to get a clear answer. Based on the results of the discussion, income is referred to as follows. (i) The existence of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia has a negative impact on the social conditions of the Indonesian people, in the form of illegal marriages, unclear children's status, children losing civil rights. In addition, refugees often create chaos in the community, due to differences in language and culture. (ii) Legal efforts made by the Directorate General of Immigration in matters and solutions by Government Regulation Number IMI-1489.UM.08.05 of 2010 concerning Handling of Illegal Immigrants and continuing to coordinate with UNHCR for resettlement to third countries.  

scholarly journals Italian Reception Policies and Pandemic: From Exclusion to Abandonment

Two Homelands ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Filippi ◽  
Luca Giliberti
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the management of reception centers for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. By analyzing the transformation of Italian reception policies in the last years, the article shows the relationship between these changes and the condition of refugees and asylum seekers in these centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overcrowded housing, the absence of institutional guidance on managing the situation, and the interruption of many migrants’ migratory projects are the main findings that emerged. The article is based on digital ethnographic techniques, in addition to phone interviews with key speakers of the social contexts monitored online.

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