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The bare life in the al-Hol camp in Syria: The case of the Swedish children

Azzo, Fadi LU (2022) STVK02 20221
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This paper aims to understand the constitution of the al-Hol camp in Syria, where thousands of women and children from 57 different countries are detained in subhuman conditions. I did that by studying the case of the Swedish children, motivated by the contradiction that those children did not get help even though they belong to one of the most liberal welfare states in the world. As a result, part of them died freezing in the camps. I applied Giorgio Agamben’s theory of bare life to understand this case. I started by introducing Agamebn’s theory critically. Then I applied his theoretical framework to analyze the discourse that the Swedish Foreign Ministry has used in its response to the UN. By analyzing this discourse, I argue that those... (More)
This paper aims to understand the constitution of the al-Hol camp in Syria, where thousands of women and children from 57 different countries are detained in subhuman conditions. I did that by studying the case of the Swedish children, motivated by the contradiction that those children did not get help even though they belong to one of the most liberal welfare states in the world. As a result, part of them died freezing in the camps. I applied Giorgio Agamben’s theory of bare life to understand this case. I started by introducing Agamebn’s theory critically. Then I applied his theoretical framework to analyze the discourse that the Swedish Foreign Ministry has used in its response to the UN. By analyzing this discourse, I argue that those children have been constituted by the sovereign power of the Swedish state as homo sacers living bare life in the al-Hol and Roj camps in Syria. (Less)
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author
Azzo, Fadi LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20221
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Al-Hol camp, Swedish Children, ISIS, Syria, Sweden, Bare Life, State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben, Biopolitics, Political Theory, International Relations.
language
English
id
9080126
date added to LUP
2022-07-03 08:03:10
date last changed
2022-07-03 08:03:10
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  abstract     = {{This paper aims to understand the constitution of the al-Hol camp in Syria, where thousands of women and children from 57 different countries are detained in subhuman conditions. I did that by studying the case of the Swedish children, motivated by the contradiction that those children did not get help even though they belong to one of the most liberal welfare states in the world. As a result, part of them died freezing in the camps. I applied Giorgio Agamben’s theory of bare life to understand this case. I started by introducing Agamebn’s theory critically. Then I applied his theoretical framework to analyze the discourse that the Swedish Foreign Ministry has used in its response to the UN. By analyzing this discourse, I argue that those children have been constituted by the sovereign power of the Swedish state as homo sacers living bare life in the al-Hol and Roj camps in Syria.}},
  author       = {{Azzo, Fadi}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The bare life in the al-Hol camp in Syria: The case of the Swedish children}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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