Mass Migrations as a Messianic Event? Rereading Agamben’s State of Exception in Light of the Refugee Crisis in Europe

Autor:	Boštjan Nedoh
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Human rights Event (relativity) media_common.quotation_subject Refugee Refugee crisis World War II Messianism Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sovereignty Nation state Economic history Ethnology Law media_common
Zdroj:	Law, Culture and the Humanities. 18:272-289
ISSN:	1743-9752 1743-8721
DOI:	10.1177/1743872117703717
Popis:	In 2015 and 2016, with the opening of the “Balkan refugee route,” Europe faced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Considering the fact that masses of refugees crossed the borders of EU states “illegally,” therein demonstrating an effective suspension of the Schengen border regime, this crisis brought into crisis the sovereignties of the nation-states as well. In this context, the article will try to offer a rereading of Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, arguing that insofar as the refugee crisis suspended the Schengen border regime and consequently revealed national sovereignty as fictional, it can be considered as a messianic event in the precise sense that Agamben assigned to this term.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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