Between citizen and bogus asylum seeker: management of migration in the EU through the technology of morality |
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| Authors: | Magdalena Kmak |
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| Institution: | 1. The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finlandmagdalena.kmak@helsinki.fi |
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| Abstract: | The article examines the rationality behind the simultaneous enhancement and restriction of mobility of various categories of migrants in the European Union. Through Foucauldian understanding of economic man as a dominant subjectivity in neoliberal risk society, the article shows how the European migration law produces two types of economic men: EU citizens and bogus asylum seekers. Whereas migration of EU citizens is considered not only rational but also moral behaviour, migration of those perceived as bogus asylum seekers is condemned as immoral and irrational. This differing approach towards EU citizens on the one hand, and asylum seekers on the other, constitutes a mode of governing migration in the EU referred in this article as technology of morality. |
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| Keywords: | European union EU citizen bogus asylum seeker Michel Foucault homo ?conomicus subjectivation technology of morality |
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