Imagining Communities through Immigration Policies Governmental Regulation, Media Spectacles and the Affective Politics of National Borders  

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Vukov, Tamara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 6 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 335–353.
Topik: governmentality; policy; population; security; sexuality
Fulltext: 335IJCS63.pdf (87.52KB)

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Immigration is a central site through which national communities are institutionally imagined and materially constructed. The borders of these imagined communities are generated in part through state policies, particularly immigration policies. Using Canada as a point of departure, this article will question how the cultural politics of immigration are shaped through media and policy discourses of immigration. In settler nations such as Canada, the long tradition of media spectacles around immigration is a key site for the amplification of political affect around national belonging that strongly impinges upon immigration policy formation. Drawing on the Foucauldian governmentality literature and its focus on the population as an object of governance, two particular articulations of immigration as a means of regulating the population are considered: first, the articulation of immigration with questions of fertility and sexuality; and, second, the dramatically heightened media and policy articulations of immigration with security. This article questions how we might begin to account for the political affect elicited in media culture around 'desirable' and 'undesirable' immigrants/refugees and its impact on the regulation and governance of immigration.

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