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Abstract
After 2015, state authorities in many European countries actively stigmatised asylum-seekers and paperless, framing them as “illegal”. In Finland, this illegality discourse was countered by resistant non-citizen and citizen subjects at multiple levels. This article examines the ways in which the arguments presented in the “No one is illegal” campaign can be considered to constitute a reverse discourse in a Foucauldian sense, and how it operates in the context of deportability which maintains structural inequality and racialised hierarchies based on the logic of political exclusion/inclusion embedded in state-centric sovereignty. It demonstrates how the state's illegality discourse contributed to a strong advance of social controls but enabled the formation of a reverse discourse that helped promote non-citizens' legal and political demands. While operating within the legal–illegal binary under which non-citizens were “disqualified” by the state, simultaneously, the reverse discourse strategically challenged it by utilising shared humanity as a common category.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 391-408 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Global Society |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 25 Mar 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
MoEC publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- asylum seekers
- deportability
- reverse discourse
- human rights
- citizenship
- Asylum-seekers
Field of science
- Multidisciplinary
- Political science
- International political science
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REND: Rethinking Nordic Democracy: Civil Disobedience in Exceptional Times
Kukko, J.-E. (Collaborative Investigator), Seppälä, T. (Collaborative Investigator), Nykänen, T. (Collaborative Investigator), Luoma-aho, M. (Collaborative Investigator), Koikkalainen, P. (Principal Investigator), Kotiranta, S. (Collaborative Investigator) & Haataja, C. (Collaborative Investigator)
01.09.2018 → 31.12.2022
Project: Co-funded project