Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory

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This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical implications of recognition theory are reflected through the case of migration. Migration movements, refugees and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migrants, in particular refugees, face many injustices and are especially vulnerable, but the right-wing political discourse presents them as threats to social order and stability. This book shows what a critical theory of recognition can contribute to the debate. The book is suitable for researchers in philosophy, social theory and migration research.   "A profound examination of how states and societies struggle to recognize migrants as fellow human beings in all their fullness. The contributions are exceptional for combining astute philosophy and social theory with a discussion of actual politics and real lives." Dr. Hugo Slim (Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and formerly Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross)   “This impressive and timely volume offers an innovative way of understanding the issues of migration and integration by using a critical theory of recognition. Recognition theory has rich potential for effectively responding to the issues of autonomy, identity, integration, and empowerment that are at the core of the current public debates on mass migration, displacement, and the refugee crisis. By examining the normative and policy implications of recognition as they apply to migration, the book offers a pathbreaking look at the human dimension of the debate.” Dr. Helle Porsdam (Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights University of Copenhagen) Contents About the Editor About the Contributors Chapter 1: Recognition and Migration: A Short Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Exploring Recognition and Migration 1.3 Recognition, Migration, and the Social Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic 1.4 About the Chapters in this Book References Part I: Recognition, Normative Theory and Migration Chapter 2: What an Ethics of Discourse and Recognition Can Contribute to a Critical Theory of Refugee Claim Adjudication: Reclaiming Epistemic Justice for Gender-Based Asylum Seekers 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Gender Asylum Cases in the United States: Reconceptualizing Persecution and Its Social Recognition 2.3 Gender Asylum Cases in Sweden: Disrespecting Testimony and Misunderstanding Social Context 2.4 Grounding the Critical Theory of Gender Asylum Adjudication: A Preliminary Overview of RT and DT 2.5 DT: Reversing the Burden of Proof 2.6 RT: Exposing Epistemic Bias in Asylum Courts 2.7 Concluding Remarks: Extending DT and RT Beyond Gender-Based Asylum References Chapter 3: Migration and the (Selective) Recognition of Vulnerability: Reflections on Solidarity Between Judith Butler and the Critical Theory 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Analyzing Social Pathologies: Axel Honneth’s Recognition Theory in the Face of Migration 3.3 Some Respects in Which Migration Escapes Honneth’s Recognition Theory 3.4 A Change of Perspectives with Judith Butler 3.5 Migration and the Selective Recognition of Vulnerabilities: Reflections Between Judith Butler and the Critical Theory 3.6 Conclusion References Chapter 4: Transnationalizing Recognition: A New Grammar for an Old Problem 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Migration and the Inadequacy of the Westphalian Framework: Framing the Transnational Subject of Justice 4.3 Toward a Critical Hermeneutical Theory of Transnational Recognition 4.4 Welcoming the Stranger and Recognizing Diversity 4.5 Conclusion References Chapter 5: Transnational Struggle for Recognition: Axel Honneth on the Embodied Dignity of Stateless Persons 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Anthropological Core 5.2.1 Unchanging Preconditions 5.2.2 Concrete Universalism 5.3 Recognition Struggles 5.3.1 A Dependent Entirety 5.3.2 Invariant Love 5.3.3 Mis-recognition and Non-recognition 5.4 Transnational Recognitive Demand 5.4.1 The Dualism Problem 5.4.2 The Private/Public Problem 5.4.3 The Inclusion/Exclusion Problem 5.4.4 The Autonomy Problem 5.5 Embodied Dignity 5.6 Conclusion References Chapter 6: Claims-Making and Recognition Through Care Work: Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion of Filipinos in New York and London 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Deservingness Frames and Moral Economy 6.3 Claims-Making, Recognition, and Belongingness 6.4 Filipino Care Workers in New York and London: Care Work and Migration in Global Cities 6.5 Data and Methods 6.6 Claims-Making and Belonging Through Care Work: The Deserving “Good Migrants” 6.7 Belonging and Class Position in Transnational Context 6.8 Exclusion and Barriers to Claims-Making: “Illegality” and Care Work 6.9 Conclusion: Of Ambivalence, Dislocation, and Recognition References Part II: Recognition, Migration Policies and the State Chapter 7: Work to Be Naturalized? On the Relevance of Hegel’s Theories of Recognition, Freedom, and Social Integration for Contemporary Immigration Debates 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Hegel on Recognition, Freedom, and Social Integration 7.3 Three Necessary Images of Recognition 7.4 The Transformation of the Free Will 7.5 Work as a Transformative Institution 7.6 How to Apply Hegel’s Theory to Naturalization Policies 7.7 Conclusion References Chapter 8: German and US Borderlands: Recognition Theory and the Copenhagen School in the Era of Hybrid Identities 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Recognition, Misrecognition, Security, and Securitization 8.3 Misrecognition and Negative Securitization Through Liberal Security Dispositifs 8.4 Borderlands of Containment: Remain-in-Mexico 8.5 Borderlands of Containment: Anker Centers 8.6 The Era of Transcultural, Hybrid Identities: Emancipation—A Way Out? 8.7 Conclusion References Chapter 9: Recognition and Civic Selection 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Recognition: Interpersonal and Institutional 9.3 Civic Selection, Civic Stratification, and Recognition 9.4 Desires, Needs, and Challenges of Recognition: Integration and Multiculturalism 9.5 Grounding Demands for Recognition in the Context of Immigration 9.6 Conclusion References Chapter 10: Managing Invisibility: Theoretical and Practical Contestations to Disrespect 10.1 Introduction: Managing Invisibility—Theoretical and Practical Contestations to Disrespect 10.2 Elements of a Theory of Invisibility 10.2.1 Different Spheres and Modes of Invisibilization 10.2.2 Social and Physical Invisibilization 10.2.3 Silencing, Evidentiality, and Self-Invisibilization 10.3 Struggles Against Social Invisibilization 10.3.1 First-Order Struggles 10.3.2 Second-Order Struggles 10.4 Invisibilization as a Strategy Against Disrespect 10.5 Conclusion References Chapter 11: A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Norwegian Context 11.3 Social Justice, Recognition, and Participatory Parity 11.4 Participatory Parity and the Subject(s) of Justice 11.5 Misrecognition as Institutionalized Subordination 11.6 Equality, Sameness, and Difference in the Context of the Egalitarian Nordic Welfare State 11.7 The Dynamic Nature of Culture 11.8 The Importance of Redistribution and Representation 11.9 Conclusion References Part III: Recognition and Refugees Chapter 12: Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory: What We Owe to Refugees 12.1 Introduction 12.2 The Relation Between Hermeneutical Injustices and Misrecognition 12.2.1 Taking a Look at Misrecognition 12.2.2 Misrecognition and Hermeneutical Injustice: A Causal Relation 12.3 In Detail: Misrecognition and Refugees 12.3.1 From Camp Moria to the Libyan Detention Centers: Three Cases of Misrecognition 12.3.2 An Objection: Misrecognition or Failures of Human Rights? 12.3.3 Hermeneutical Injustice and Refugees 12.4 What Do We Owe to Refugees with Regard to Recognition? 12.4.1 Recognition and Moral Obligations 12.4.2 Epistemic Duties and Obligations 12.5 Conclusion References Chapter 13: Asylum and Reification 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Reification 13.2.1 Reification According to Georg Lukács and Axel Honneth 13.2.2 Survey of Reification: Adaptation of the Models 13.2.2.1 On the Relationship Between Intersubjective Reification and Self-Reification 13.2.2.2 Embedding in Historical References 13.2.2.3 Objectification and Reification 13.3 Rationalization and Administration 13.3.1 Rationalization According to Max Weber 13.3.2 New Public Management 13.4 Reification and Asylum 13.4.1 Inequality of Rights 13.4.2 Manifestations of the Reification of People with Experiences of Flight 13.4.2.1 Reduction to a “Case” 13.4.2.2 Two Dimensions of Recognition: Justice and Emotional Affection 13.4.2.3 Self-Presentation and Self-Reification 13.4.2.4 (Everyday) Racism 13.5 Conclusions: Summary and Reactions References Chapter 14: The Structural Misrecognition of Migrants as a Critical Cosmopolitan Moment 14.1 Introduction 14.2 The Geopolitics of Borders and Global Capitalism 14.3 Forced Transnational Migrants as Cosmopolitan Actors 14.4 From Lived Critique to Critical Cosmopolitanism 14.5 Conclusion References