Between Two Camps: The Experience of Migration as a State of Heterotopia Cover Image

İki Kamp Arasında: Bir Durumsal-Heterotopi olarak Göç Deneyimi
Between Two Camps: The Experience of Migration as a State of Heterotopia

Author(s): Pınar Karababa Demircan
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: COVID-19; Camp; Heterotopia; Necropolitics; Informality;

Summary/Abstract: When the focus is shifted from the sense of suffering together under the impact of COVID-19 to the problems of accessing to the basic needs uncovered by present health measures, it becomes possible to face a new definition of invisibility created by globalization. The new principles of invisibility are analyzed in this article over the route of dispossession and loss of access to the basic rights and services appearing with the rise of globalization. According to this reading the historical development of the very situation brings a new and settling state of emergency. The new definition of vulnerability excludes the former need holders such as asylum seekers, unregistered people, migrant workers in the informal sector since they are not visible to the health system. The article analyzes this content over the leitmotiv of camp which is discussed to be rather a state than being a spatial unit with vague borders.

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 211-228
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish