Identification and mourning: the humanization and the survival of migrants and refugees

Authors

  • Antonella Zugliani Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.84091

Keywords:

Migrants, Refugees, Empathy, Mourning, Naked Lives, Survival

Abstract

In a context of increasingly intensification of border control policies, this article analyzes how the process of identifying the bodies of migrants and refugees, work claimed by humanitarian initiatives in direct contact with families, driven by empathy and the search for the possibility of mourning, can have two outcomes: allowing humanity to lives that were naked and providing survival. Thus, one tries to resist the oblivion and non-identification of these bodies, understood as naked lives by the state and not subject to mourning. It is suggested that both are instruments for the maintenance of refugees in the collective conscience and pave the way for more humane policies.

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Author Biography

Antonella Zugliani, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio)

Instituto de Relações Internacionais - Área de Política Internacional

Published

2018-12-31

How to Cite

Zugliani, A. (2018). Identification and mourning: the humanization and the survival of migrants and refugees. Conjuntura Austral, 9(48), 37–52. https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.84091

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RESEARCH