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On Refugees as Political Subjects: Refugees' Biopolitics and Mapping a Translocal Political Topography
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성결대학교 다문화평화연구소 다문화와 평화 다문화와 평화 제11권 제1호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2017.1
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194 - 224 (31page)

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Refugees are often considered very negatively as people only seeking selfish gain in a country where they seek asylum or as ‘potential criminals’ or as ‘potential terrorists.’ This negative stereotype has rapidly been disseminated and further solidified through the representation of massive refugee migration in recent years in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe on mass media and the Internet. This paper, however, intends to offer a critical and alternative discourse on refugees by focusing on ways in which refugees make positive efforts to sustain and build up their life despite the extremely harsh life condition they often have to go through. Hence, the paper analyzes how refugees become (re)aware of themselves as political subjects and engage in diverse activities directly or indirectly to consolidate their political subjectivity. To this end, the two main topics to be discussed are as follows. First, I examine how the two aspects of biopolitcs—a politics of death and a politics of life—operate in refugees’ life and how refugees explore and engage with a resistant and alternative politics in between such two opposing modes of biopolitics. Second, on the basis of the theoretical argumentation suggested above, I undertake case studies on refugees’ life of struggle in Europe and Korea in recent years. Here my focus is given to the way in which refugees explore and embody a resistant and alternative politics under their life condition that can be described as life ‘across’or ‘in between’ countries. This study hopes to show an outline of the translocal topography of refugees’ political engagements. This study also hopes to clarify the possibility of a resistant and alternative politics engaged by refugees that can offer a critical perspective on a nationalistic paradigm imposed on refugees’ life.

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