Discourse or Merely Noise? Regarding the Disagreement on Undocumented Migrants

Autor:	Markus Gunneflo, Niklas Selberg
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Subjectivity Human rights media_common.quotation_subject Performative contradiction Legislation Performative utterance Political change Politics Law Political economy Political science Contradiction media_common.cataloged_instance European union Demography media_common
Zdroj:	European Journal of Migration and Law. 12:173-191
ISSN:	1571-8166 1388-364X
DOI:	10.1163/157181610x496867
Popis:	Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s theorising of the political, this article analyses the disagreement on undocumented migrants in recent legislation in Sweden and within the European Union as well as in Swedish labour union practice. Both the consensus understanding of the issue of undocumented migrants and the materialisation of dissensus through the political activities of undocumented migrants are studied. The aims of the article are: firstly, to show that undocumented migrants in Sweden engage in a political struggle that is not recognised as such, to analyse the structure or conditions of possibility of this non-recognition, and finally, to analyse the ways in which these conditions might be undone through the political activities of undocumented migrants. The theoretical claim is that the issue of undocumented migrants involves intimately core aspects of both politics and law and that the struggle of undocumented migrants is a process in which our understanding of political and legal subjectivity is called into question. In conclusion we reflect on the question of political change against the background of the theoretical and empirical findings of the analysis.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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