Where governmentality ends: Border control officers and deportations of sojourners in Israel

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-102

  Korczyn, Oded ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79959329077     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: 14716445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S014754791000027X     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. For a more detailed account of the trends of non-Jewish migration to Israel, see Rebeca Raijman and Adriana Kemp, "Labor Migration, Managing the Ethno-National Conflict, and Client Politics in Israel," in Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context, ed. Sarah Willen (Lanham, 2007), 31-50.
2. Adriana Kemp and Rebeca Raijman, Migrants and Workers: The Political Economy of Labor Migration in Israel [Hebrew] (Jerusalem, Van Leer), 114-138.
3. See for example, "Klein and Benizri are Together Combating Unemployment," Ynet, September 12, 2002, http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0, 7340,L-2115714,00.html;
4. Gideon Eshet, "A Just and Clever Policy," Ynet, October 16, 2002, http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2159502,00.html;
5. Gad Lior, "Ben Basat: The Government is not Doing Enough to Curb Unemployment," Ynet, July 1, 2003, http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L- 2674853,00. html.
6. Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (Chicago, 2005).
7. Michel Foucault, "Governmentality," in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, ed. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller (Chicago, 1991), 100.
8. Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and Ambivalence (Ithaca, 1991).
9. Michael Dean, Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (London, 1999).
10. Ann Laura Stoler, "Affective States," in A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, ed. David Nugent and Joan Vincent (Malden, 2004), 10.
11. For an interesting account of how emotions-especially compassion-are intertwined in the political process of obtaining legal residency in France, see Miriam Ticktin, "Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France," American Ethnologist 33 (2006): 33-49. (Pubitemid 43193182)
12. For another paper that addresses the complex relationship between bureaucracy, ideology, and emotions, see Mark Graham, "Emotional Bureaucracies: Emotions, Civil Servants, and Immigrants in the Swedish Welfare State," Ethos 30 2003: 199-226. (Pubitemid 36289082)
13. See James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, "Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality," American Ethnologist 29 (2002): 981-1002 (Pubitemid 36086302)
14. and Ferguson, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Durham, 2006), 89-112.
15. Timothy Mitchell, "The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics," The American Political Science Review 85 (1991): 77-96.
16. See, for example, Saskia Sassen, Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (New York, 1995)
17. and Manuel Castells, The Information Age, Vol. 1, The Rise of the Network Society (Oxford, 1996) for a discussion about the waning of state power.
18. Neoliberalization policies adopted by many developed and developing countries (and championed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) stressed the reduction of governmental expenditure and services and privatizing many of the previous services rendered by the state, usually resulting in large, for-profit corporations filling the gap. Much of the discourse on the waning of state power relies, implicitly or explicitly, on neoliberal processes.
19. Aihwa Ong, "Zones of New Sovereignty in Southeast Asia," in Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity, ed. Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer (Minneapolis, 2003), 39-69.
20. This distinction between those considered deserving and undeserving takes place on many levels at the same time: spatially, who is permitted to stay within the territory of the state; economically, who can participate in the free market and who should enjoy social services; from a healthcare point of view, who should receive healthcare coverage; and from an educational perspective, who should be enrolled in the school system. The nation-state, NGOs, and individuals all struggle over the boundaries of each category.
21. For an interesting account of Israel's "collective memory," myths, and ideologies, see, Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (Chicago, 1995).
22. See Rebeca Raijman and Moshe Semyonov, "Perceived Threat and Exclusionary Attitudes Towards Foreign Workers in Israel," Ethnic and Racial Studies 27 (2004): 3.
23. For a discussion about the difference between state-level policies and local policies regarding sojourners, see Rebeca Raijman and Adriana Kemp, "Tel Aviv is Not Foreign to You: Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel," International Migration Review 38 (2004): 26-51. (Pubitemid 39337783)
24. Michael Herzfeld, The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy (Chicago, 1993).
25. James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, 1998), 11.
26. For an exhaustive definition of habitus, see Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge, 2002), 79-87.
27. I refer to social fact here in the Durkheimian sense. See Emile Durkheim, The Rules of the Sociological Method (New York, 1982), 50-59.
28. See Matthew Hull, "The File: Agency, Authority, and Autography in an Islamabad Bureaucracy," Language and Communication 23 (2003): 287-314. (Pubitemid 36880959)