IS 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Immigration Policy, Military History Of South Africa, Connotation
22 Jun 2018
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3 more weeks (2 more weeks).
2 ways to understand:
1) Know the facts
2) Examine the things that hold together and stand apart those logics and not take the ideas
for granted.
Recap: critical perspective
Refugee camps
The idea of a refugee camp didn’t happen as refugees just popping in.
It carries two things:
Connotation of threats/security issues involved
Some kind of abstract catergories at work
What they do: an abstract category of people- not saying that people are abstract categories.
Refugees: has a legal definition ; someone who doesn’t belong in the national order.
And that’s different from terrorist / immigrant.
Countries are “forced” to deal with refugees as its under un charter
An empty signifier – no country attached. Someone outside of order.
Because they are outside of order, de factto, they are a threat because if there is an order, there is
a certain order of people involved.
The safest thing to do for these refugees is put them in a camp and before them coming here,
process them and hold onto them.
Refugees do not have any places for them to go.
In order to maintain security (imaginary order of things), a place that radicates into a camp- hes
speaking about
Inter-national order- while a refugee is expelled from a place, there is no place for them within
inter-national order and threatens the whole nation-state.
End of 19th century- not thought of as refugees (1902)
But the idea of the camp goes back to the Boer War in the 19th century.
Boer Wars- British fighting Boers in South Africa. Boers are farmers and are challenging that
they are not happy with British expansion in South Africa.
Birth of the camp, counter-surgency military attacks
The camp was used by the British to single out insurgents. Rounded up all the women and
children (tens of thousands of Boers Women and Children) to put them in camps and contain
them from the male population, whom they suspected as insurgents fighting against British.
“Drain the swamp and “ – and leave the Boer men population and attacked them. Destroyed
farms, crops and poisioned water supply.
United States also fighting different nationalities (ex. Cuba, Philippines)
They take civilians into camps and fight against insurgencies
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Document Summary
2 ways to understand: know the facts, examine the things that hold together and stand apart those logics and not take the ideas for granted. The idea of a refugee camp didn"t happen as refugees just popping in. What they do: an abstract category of people- not saying that people are abstract categories. Refugees: has a legal definition ; someone who doesn"t belong in the national order. Countries are forced to deal with refugees as its under un charter. Because they are outside of order, de factto, they are a threat because if there is an order, there is a certain order of people involved. The safest thing to do for these refugees is put them in a camp and before them coming here, process them and hold onto them. Refugees do not have any places for them to go. In order to maintain security (imaginary order of things), a place that radicates into a camp- hes speaking about.
