Abstract

DOMENECH, Pablo. The Processes of the Formation of Migrant Subjectivities by the Border Mechanisms of Power. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2018, n.32, pp.33-51. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda32.2018.02.

European border politics have gone through numerous changes in recent years as they try to find different solutions to the phenomenon known as the migratory crisis. And as a result of these shifts, the formation of migrant subjectivities has also mutated, as shown in the viewpoint of the powers that manage the European borders. So, in accordance with variations in the mechanisms of migration control at terrestrial and maritime borders, the migrants have been dealt with in accordance with heterogeneous anthropological principles. This means that we must examine the border regime in terms of the relations between the techno-political strategies and the figures of subjectivity which those strategies need to legitimize themselves. But, despite the supposed existence of an institutional and strategic agreement, it is surprising that the management of migration in Europe has led to widely diverse governmental practices, depending on whether the border is a land or maritime one and the impact of some especially tragic events which occur in global migrations. Therefore, we draw a conceptual map of the different modes of codetermination between the mechanisms of power on the borders and the processes of subjectification associated with them, in order to identify the key elements which may lead to a philosophical anthropology, in the framework of the integral frontier mechanism which the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has become.

Keywords : Boundaries; sovereignty; state of emergency; Bio-politics; Frontex; mechanism of power; philosophical anthropology.

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