Abstract: Recent scholarship has posited refugee camps as socio-political spaces of domination and resistance. This chapter adapts existing approaches to political subjectivity in order to uncover ‘the right to the Jungle’. This right is discussed as an assemblage of refugees, aid workers and objects that constitute the Jungle. The chapter examines how this assemblage shaped a space of relational political subjectivity that contested authorized sources of mobility capital. Drawing upon this discussion, this chapter problematizes Eurocentric understandings of citizenship. The chapter concludes that the right to the Jungle is an important, albeit transient, prism for witnessing a struggle over who can belong to Europe and what counts as political subjectivity in Europe.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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