CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Zuparic-Iljic, Drago |
|---|---|
| Title | DISCOURSES ON ASYLUM ISSUES AND STRATEGIES OF GOVERNMENTALITY OVER ASYLUM SEEKERS IN CROATIA |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on the Croatian asylum system and analyzes how the particular implementation of the asylum law and a peculiar interpretation of statistics serve as the ground to deal with and govern the population of asylum seekers. While the state actors legitimize their strategies on a very restrictive reading of the existing law, the discourses of the non-state actors (UNHCR, NGOs, the media) outline the particular socio-cultural setting in which governmental strategies are embedded in. Using Foucault’s concepts of ‘governmentality’ and ‘discourse’, this thesis questions how discourses used by different state and non-state actors shape the Croatian public attitudes on asylum issues and explores how strategies of governmentality are enacted. The media portraying and officials’ categorization presents asylum seeker in Croatian society as profiles who are in opposition to imagined national identity. Thus, in Croatian case the specific public response on these categorizations, or the lack of it, provides a tacit agreement for the interpretation and the implementation of the law in a particular way and results in the restrictive granting politics. Although this governmental responses could be understood as strategies of non-control and non-governmentality regarding asylum seekers, I argue that this way of ‘not dealing with the refugees’, should be understood as a specific form of governmentality. |
| Supervisor | Kumar Rajaram, Prem |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/zuparic-iljic_drago.pdf |
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