@article{2023:vey:exclaves_i,
title = {Exclaves in the Externalisation Society: Accommodation, provisions and care for refugees in Germany},
year = {2023},
note = {Externalisation is a core structural feature of capitalist societies.
The negative effects of a capitalist mode of society and economy are
externalised to other countries and later generations. The question
that will be addressed in this paper is how externalisation societies
respond when people from the externalised societies push into the
inside of the externalisation countries, as for example in the context
of forced migration. In this article, using the example of the
accommodation, provision and care system for refugees in Germany, I
will show that a fundamental element of externalisation is to
re-externalise the people fleeing to the Global North into exclaves
within the externalisation societies. I therefore argue that refugee
accommodations need to be theorised as exclaves in externalisation
societies, since spaces are created that are outside of these
societies despite being territorially enclosed. In order to understand
the character of the exclaves’ borders and the bordering processes,
I will refer to Critical Border Studies. This area of study helps us
to conceptualise borders not only and not mainly as the material
demarcation lines of a social entity. Instead, they result from a
permanent social practice. They can be drawn almost anywhere and by
anyone. Therefore, I will also trace the intended and unintended
bordering processes in the context of refugee accommodation, and I
will present examples in which these processes have failed. The added
value of my contribution lies on three levels. First, I extend the
externalisation concept and apply it to a new topic. Second, I add a
global perspective to the understanding of refugee accommodation,
provisions and care in externalisation societies by applying the
externalisation approach to this field. Third, by introducing Critical
Border Studies, I flesh out the externalisation concept by showing
that borders are decentralised, highly fluid, never closed and neither
universally valid nor visible to everyone.},
journal = {Culture, Practice & Europeanization},
pages = {183--203},
author = {Vey, Judith},
volume = {8},
number = {2}
}