Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.1515/BEHEMOTH-2013-0005
Bettina Schorr
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.1515/behemoth-2013-0004
Thomas Welskopp
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Pub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.1515/BEHEMOTH-2013-0006
C. Dorn, Thomas Hoebel
In the scientific debate on mafias we find neither a common usage nor a shared understanding as to what characterizes a mafia as opposed to other forms of organized crime. To clarify the mafia con cept we suggest following Georg Simmel’s notion that the appearance of a third party substantively alters the constitution of a social configuration. It is our thesis that mafias act as the third party in a variety of settings by creating or sustaining social orders between at least two other involved parties. In order to acquire and maintain these third party positions, mafias assume the shape of formal organizations. In this light we show the usefulness of this approach through empirical cases that demonstrate how mafias operate as mediators, referees and gatekeepers. The concept “mafias as organized third parties” offers benefits to the study of mafias and organized crime as well as social theory more generally.
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Pub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2012.2.1.652
S. Hess
Against the background of the research project TRANSIT MIGRATION (2002–2004) on migration regimes in Turkey, Greece and the Balkan region the article will discuss new processes of zoning and fragmentation of citizenship rights at the fringes of Europe. By analyzing diverse practices of "transit migration" the article can show how the new Europeanised border regime does not totally stop migration. The text rather demonstrates how the deterritorialised and stretched border regime produces, in its course of struggling with migrants’ subjectivities and projects, something like "precarious transit zones".
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Pub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2012.2.1.653
Joshua J. Kurz
In this essay, the author takes up William Walters’ (2006) incitement to theorize transmigration through the Deleuzian concept of control. The importance of mechanisms, or technologies, that modulate population flows are explored by paying close attention to novel strategies of migration policing and securitization in the United States, the European Union, Australia, and North Africa. These technologies no longer take the border as their "proper" site, but instead rely on processes of internalization, externalization, and excision to produce conditions of generalized precariousness. The author argues that these technologies of control resist simple categorization as biopolitics, and instead are more fruitfully considered through the lens of control societies and precarity. Ultimately, the inclusion/exclusion dialectic is put under erasure.
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Pub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2012.2.1.654
Sebastian Sierra Barra
In recent years, digital technologies have become increasingly important in migration policy. Especially biometrics are considered as a key technology for border control. Instead of following this typical perspective on surveillance I will show that the transformation of borders and the construction of data bodies have to be understood as a symptom of wide social change. From the beginning of cybernetics after World War II to the social movements in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, I will outline an unexpected association between humans and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This association challenges the old order based on the difference between subject and object. The new situation is represented by two central topics: the postliberal sovereignty and the new relationship, the "assemblage", between physical bodies and digital data bodies. Departing from this assumption I will discuss the question whether we can identify a new form of governmentality between migration and ICT.
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Pub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2012.2.1.655
Mathias Rodatz
Urban administrations in Germany have been governing districts as "concentrations of foreigners", problematizing them as signs of disintegration and urban decay and introducing policies aiming at their dissolution. Recently, however, programs of city development and migration policy are suggesting that German cities should give up their policies of desegregation and start to view migrant districts as productive sites of "diversity" featuring resources for the "local economy" and "civil society". The paper argues that the effects of this shift in policies may be twofold: on the one hand, neoliberal forms of governance result in the delegetimization of national-social (i.e. ethno-centric) conceptions of urban order and thereby of a systematic notion of urban state-racism in Germany. On the other hand the details of the new strategies show how the conceptions of "ethnicity", migrant "networks" or "economies" are to be managed as orders of resources and risks. Under these conditions of neoliberalization, "diversity" may spell out an uncertainty of urban belonging for specific categories of "migrant communities", whose otherness must continuously be proven not to be a risk to the neighborhood, but a means of productivity.
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Pub Date : 2012-11-01DOI: 10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2012.2.1.656
Gertraud Marinelli-König, A. Preisinger, Bettina Dennerlein, Elke Frietsch
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/BEHEMOTH.2012.005
Sebastian Sierra Barra
In recent years, digital technologies have become increasingly important in migration policy. Especially biometrics are considered as a key technology for border control. Instead of following this typical perspective on surveillance I will show that the transformation of borders and the construction of data bodies have to be understood as a symptom of wide social change. From the beginning of cybernetics after World War II to the social movements in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, I will outline an unexpected association between humans and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This association challenges the old order based on the difference between subject and object. The new situation is represented by two central topics: the postliberal sovereignty and the new relationship, the “assemblage”, between physical bodies and digital data bodies. Departing from this assumption I will discuss the question whether we can identify a new form of governmentality between migration and ICT.
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Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1515/BEHEMOTH.2012.003
S. Hess
Against the background of the research project TRANSIT MIGRATION (2002–2004) on migration regimes in Turkey, Greece and the Balkan region the article will discuss new processes of zoning and fragmentation of citizenship rights at the fringes of Europe. By analyzing diverse practices of “transit migration” the article can show how the new Europeanised border regime does not totally stop migration. The text rather demonstrates how the deterritorialised and stretched border regime produces, in its course of struggling with migrants’ subjectivities and projects, something like “precarious transit zones”.
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