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Refugees: A refugee is a person who has been forced to flee his or her home country because of a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Giorgio Agamben on Refugees - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 828
Refugees/Migration/Politics/Agamben: Agamben first diagnoses a separation between the humanitarian and the political as an "extreme phase of distance between human rights and civil rights". (1)
Brocker I 829
Problem: this prevents "naked" life from becoming the exclusive subject of humanitarian - and non-political - stratiegies,
Solution/Agamben: "the refugee" can be understood as a "border concept" that "plunges the fundamental categories of the nation state, from the nexus nativity nationality to that of human citizens, into a radical crisis: Thus it becomes possible to clear the field for a categorical renewal that cannot be postponed now, with regard to a policy that no longer separates and expels naked life in the state order, not even through the figure of human rights" (2); cf. Agamben 2001 (3)). See also Camps/Agamben
, Biopolitics/Agamben, Totalitarianism/Agamben, Terminology/Agamben.

1.Giorgio Agamben, Homo sacer. Il potere sovrano e la nuda vita, Torino 1995. Dt.: Giorgio Agamben, Homo sacer – Die souveräne Macht und das nackte Leben, Frankfurt/M. 2002, p. 142.
2. Ibid. p. 143
3. Agamben 2001, p. 23-32

Maria Muhle, „Giorgio Agamben, Homo sacer – Die souveräne Macht und das nackte Leben“, in: Manfred Brocker (Ed.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Agamben I
Giorgio Agamben
Homo sacer – Die souveräne Macht und das nackte Leben Frankfurt 2002

Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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