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"Illegalisation, visibilisation and appropriation: a few thoughts on the politics of migrant labor in South China"
Florence, Eric
2012Norms in the Margin and Margins of the Norms
 

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Keywords :
illegalism; illegalization; criminalization; visibility; visibilization;; migrants; informal economy
Abstract :
[en] Practices of legal and bureaucratic categorisation, as well normative practices of naming are key within the endless construction and reinvention of nation-states. Such practices are part of larger and complex configurations of power along with institutions, more or less formal-informal practices of social control and governing. Today’s production and circulation of categories such “illegal migrant”, “refugee”, “young delinquent”, etc. need to be thought of in relation to categories such as “the national citizen” and the core values and principles attached to such categories. In this paper, I will explore how the dialectics of legality-illegality ─ and practices of visibilisation and invisibilisation ─ can be problematized in relation to a dual process: the ritual affirmation of the Party-state authority and the identity formation of rural migrant workers in South-China. I will argue that such politics ought to be read within the political economy of South-China or what Lee Ching-Kwan has called “decentralized legal authoritarianism” (Lee 2007). By looking at the production and circulation of the category of “the three no’s” (sanwu), I will show that the ambiguity and the flexibility of how this category is used is central in order to account for its symbolic and performative power.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Florence, Eric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut Confucius
Language :
English
Title :
"Illegalisation, visibilisation and appropriation: a few thoughts on the politics of migrant labor in South China"
Publication date :
26 October 2012
Event name :
Norms in the Margin and Margins of the Norms
Event organizer :
University of Brussels, KULeuven
Event place :
Bruxelles, Belgium
Event date :
25 octobre au 27 octobre 2012
Audience :
International
Funders :
Belgian cooperation to Development; Belspo
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