Estado de exceção, política do inimigo e (des)politização por meio das barreiras visíveis e invisíveis aos migrantes internacionais

Abstract

Physical or moral barriers to migrants highlight the tensions surrounding the flow of migration. In these spaces, the existence of regimes of exception in concomitance with democracy is questioned. The use of artifices such as the securitization of borders, the confinement of the undocumented, and the construction of the identity of the migrant as a criminal to condemn migrants to bare life, depoliticizing them as political subjects, was attested. In addition to Agamben's theses, this study also uses the concept of the political enemy, created by Schmitt, to understand the exclusion of non-nationals. In this way, value is associated with migrants only because of their economic usefulness. Identified that exception camps exist in liberal democracies. These places attest to the contradictions that exist between the pretense of national homogeneity and multiculturalism in the age of globalization. They are justified through fear of contact with the different, where walls are built and political subjects are depoliticized.