TY  - JOUR
A1  - Perl, Gerhild
T1  - Under pressure: moods, affects and the violence of everyday life in a Spanish migrant detention centre
T2  - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
N2  - What does it mean when the future of one’s life is exposed to the inscrutable will of an intangible other? And what are the possibilities of still asserting oneself when pushed to the limit? Nuancing the feelings of different actors in a detention centre and analysing how everyday moods, affects and violence intertwine, I explore how the randomly cruel and often-inexplicable logic of the contemporary deportation regime pushes migrants to their limits. Taking as my starting point the argument that deportation practices are effective because they operate on an affective level, I show how affective experiences manifest themselves bodily and how violent practices and discourses reverberate in bodies. I argue that ‘bodies under pressure’ are testimonies of racialised histories of exclusion, and I show how they become calls for social recognition. Exploring small, often-unintended acts of rebellion against exhausting deportation practices, I stress the existential necessity and social importance of including oneself in the realm of meaning.
KW  - deportation
KW  - gender
KW  - meaning
KW  - migration
KW  - racialisation
KW  - Spanien
KW  - Flüchtlingslager
KW  - Alltag
KW  - Gerichtsentscheidung
KW  - Stimmungswechsel
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2469
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-24699
VL  - 2024
IS  - 51 / 4
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - London
ER  -