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Accepted Paper:
The moral economy of deportation in Israel: how the anxiety of the nation translates into the anxiety of the deportable subject
Barak Kalir
(University of Amsterdam)
Paper short abstract:
This paper tries to shed light on the legal and social location of asylum seekers from Eritrea and the Sudan in Israel, by looking at the ways in which their position is being framed by different parties, deploying competing discourses of human rights, citizenship, security and sovereignty.
Paper long abstract:
The polemic claim that the paper advances is that an appeal - mostly made by critical NGOs, journalists and academics -- to human rights and humanitarian morals that are rooted in the Jewish history of refugeeness and ethnic cleansing is counterproductive in face of the attempts by the Israeli government to deport 'infiltrators' in order to protect the Jewish state. The counterproductiveness of an appeal to Jewish morals and historic sensitivities results from a hegemonic ideology of fearism (Fisher 2005) that marks the national narrative and informs the notion of citizenship among Jewish Israelis. This ideology of fearism leads Jews in Israel to construct and view non-Jewish asylum-seekers as the Other, who poses a threat to their own right for secured citizenship that is guarded by an uncastrated Jewish state.
Deportation, justice and anxiety (EN)
Session 1 Wednesday 11 July, 2012, -