Undocumented migrants: An Arendtian perspective

European Journal of Political Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-348

  Krause, Monika ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arendt; Citizenship; Human rights; Migration; Stateless; Totalitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449099674     PISSN: 14748851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474885108089175     Document Type: Article

References (86)

1. Hannah Arendt (1982) 'We Refugees', in The Jew as Pariah, pp. 55-65. New York: Grove Press.
2. In the United Kingdom successive governments limited the citizenship rights of former colonial subjects from 1962 onwards. Following the worldwide economic recession, Germany stopped recruiting guest workers in November 1973 and France officially closed its borders in 1974.
3. For a useful overview of the variety of groups affected in France, see Nathalie Ferre (1997) 'La production de l'irregularite', in Didier Fassin, Alain Morice and Catherine Quimina (eds) Les lois de l'inhospitabilité, pp. 47-65. Paris: Edition la Decouverte. For Germany, see Rolf Weitkamp (1995) 'Spielball des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes: Zur rechtlichen Hierarchisierung von MigrantInnen', in BUKO (ed.) Zwischen Flucht und Arbeit. Neue Migration und Legalisierungsdebatte, pp. 93-119. Hamburg: Verlag Libertare Assoziation. Harald Lederer (1999) 'Typologie und Statistik illegaler Zuwanderung nach Deutschland', in E. Eichendorfer (ed.) Migration und Illegalitát, pp. 53-73. Osnabrück: Universitatsverlag Rasch.
4. Thomas Hammar (1990) Democracy and the Nation State. Avebury: Aldershot.
5. International Organization for Migration (2000) World Migration Report 2000, Geneva: International Organization for Migration. International Labor Organization (2004) Towards a Fair Deal for Migrant Workers in the Global Economy. Geneva: International Labour Office. See Charles Pinkerton, Gail McLaughlan and John Salt (2004) sizing The Illegally Resident Population in the UK, Home Office Online Report 58/04, for a survey of recent efforts to measure the illegal population.
6. See Jörg Alt (1999) Illegal in Deutschland, p. 48. Karlsruhe: Von Loeper Literaturverlag. Also his updated 'Groessenschaetzungen fuer Deutschland', available at www.joerg-alt.de/publikationen/ materialanlagen/materialanlagen.mtml (consulted Dec. 2006).
7. Among key works of that period are Margaret Canovan (1992) Hannah Arendt: A Re Interpretation of Her Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Jeffrey Isaac (1992) Arendt, Camus and Modern Rebellion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves (1994) The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt. London: Routledge. Seyla Benhabib (1996) The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt. London: SAGE. Richard Bernstein (1996) Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. Oxford: Polity. For recent contributions by many pioneering and influential Arendt scholars see the 2002 special issue of Social Research 69(2). Among the many contributions to the centennial of her birth the following stands out: Elizabeth Young-Bruehl (2006) Why Hannah Arendt Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
8. See e.g. the work of Judith Shklar (ed. with Stanley Hoffman) (1998) Political Thought and Political Thinkers. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Or Giorgio Agamben (2000) Means Without End. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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11. Bernstein (n. 7); see also Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp (2000) Les sans-état dans la philosophie de Hannah Arendt. Lausanne: Editions Paliot.
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13. Ibid. p. 286.
14. Ibid. p. 283.
15. Ibid. p. 456.
16. Simpson, quoted ibid. p. 281. Ian Brownlie (1998) Principles of Public International Law, p. 560. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
17. Godfried Engbersen (1999) 'The Undocumented Outsider Class: Illegal Immigrants in Rotterdam', in Eichendorfer (n. 3), pp. 213-33.
18. Bill Jordan (1999) 'Undocumented Brazilian Workers in London: Identities, Decisions, and Strategies', ibid. pp. 177-95.
19. See Khalid Koser (1998) 'Vom Regen in die Traufe: Vom Asylsuchenden zum Illegalen Einwanderer', Argument 40: 231-40. On the Netherlands, Godfried Engbersen (1999) 'The Undocumented Outsider Class: Illegal Immigrants in Rotterdam', in Eichendorfer (n. 3), pp. 213-33. Philip Anderson (1999) 'From the Wailing Wall to the "Dignified Juggler": Making a Living as an Undocumented Migrant in the United Kingdom', ibid. pp. 157-77. Franck Düvell and Bill Jordan (1999) 'Immigration, Asylum, and Citizenship: Social Justice in a Global Context', Imprints 4: 15-36 (report on the UK). Fassin et al. (n. 3) on France. For the situation in Germany, see Alt (n. 6), and Katja Dominik, Marc Jünemann,Jan Motte, and Astrid Reinecke (1999) Angeworben, eingewandert, abgeschoben: Ein anderer Blick auf die Einwanderungsgesellschaft Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Münster: Westfalisches Dampfboot Verlag.
20. Anderson (n. 19).
21. Andrea Krüger (1995) 'Dienstleistung, Demut und Devisen', in BUKO (n. 3).
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25. Alt (n. 6).
26. Ibid. p. 187.
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33. Arendt (n. 12), p. 295.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid. p. 433.
36. Ibid. p. 432.
37. Ibid. pp. 286-7.
38. Ibid. pp. 296-7.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid. p. 296.
41. Ibid. p. 297.
42. Ibid. p. 302.
43. For an example of such a catastrophic reading, see Hans-Magnus Enzensberger (1994) Die große Wanderung. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
44. Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp (2000) 'La figure-sujet des sans-Etat dans l'oeuvre de Hannah Arendt', in Caloz-Tschopp (n. 11), pp. 30-47.
45. Arendt (n. 12), p. 267.
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47. Arendt (n. 12), p. 230.
48. Ibid. p. 275.
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52. Arendt (n. 1), pp. 134-61.
53. Arendt (n. 12), p. 290.
54. Ibid. p. 300.
55. Ibid. p. 293.
56. Ibid. p. 291.
57. Ibid. pp. 299-300.
58. Ibid. p. 138.
59. Arendt (n. 12), p. 393.
60. Ibid. p. 301.
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63. Arendt (1958) The Human Condition, p. 176. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
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65. Ibid. p. 153.
66. Ibid. p. 99.
67. Canovan (n. 10), p. 26.
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69. Arendt (n. 1), p. 71.
70. Ibid. p. 66.
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75. Cisse (n. 73), pp. 12-14.
76. Arendt (n. 63), p. 198.
77. Ring (n. 68), p. 439.
78. Arendt (n. 63), p. 198.
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80. Hannah Arendt (1970) On Violence, p. 44. London: Allen Lane.
81. Ibid. p. 52.
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83. Cisse (n. 73), p. 12.
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