The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases
Abstract This article theorizes everyday forms of uncertainty that immigrant and refugee populations negotiate as a form of violence. We argue that while the state has made immigrants and refugees an explicit target on which to exercise sovereignty through detention and deportation, sovereignty also...
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| description | Abstract This article theorizes everyday forms of uncertainty that immigrant and refugee populations negotiate as a form of violence. We argue that while the state has made immigrants and refugees an explicit target on which to exercise sovereignty through detention and deportation, sovereignty also operates through a necropolitics of uncertainty where immigrants and refugees face inconsistent and spatially diffuse states of exception that target their material, social, and psychological wellbeing. To support this argument, we draw on three case studies that illustrate how avoiding or opting out of social services and health care, or by “self-deporting,” are effects of targeted violence. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-680c6b84ebeb4e298d92837b548df0d82025-08-20T01:47:33ZengSpringerOpenComparative Migration Studies2214-594X2025-04-0113111410.1186/s40878-025-00441-3The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three casesBreanne Grace0John Doering-White1Benjamin Roth2College of Social Work, University of South CarolinaCollege of Social Work, Department of Anthropology, University of South CarolinaCollege of Social Work, University of South CarolinaAbstract This article theorizes everyday forms of uncertainty that immigrant and refugee populations negotiate as a form of violence. We argue that while the state has made immigrants and refugees an explicit target on which to exercise sovereignty through detention and deportation, sovereignty also operates through a necropolitics of uncertainty where immigrants and refugees face inconsistent and spatially diffuse states of exception that target their material, social, and psychological wellbeing. To support this argument, we draw on three case studies that illustrate how avoiding or opting out of social services and health care, or by “self-deporting,” are effects of targeted violence.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00441-3 |
| spellingShingle | Breanne Grace John Doering-White Benjamin Roth The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases Comparative Migration Studies |
| title | The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases |
| title_full | The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases |
| title_fullStr | The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases |
| title_full_unstemmed | The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases |
| title_short | The violence of uncertainty: theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases |
| title_sort | violence of uncertainty theorizing everyday immigrant necropolitics across three cases |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00441-3 |
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