Transforming Refugees: Biopolitics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects

dc.contributor.authorTurner, Neil
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-22T02:10:47Z
dc.date.available2010-07-22T02:10:47Z
dc.date.issued2009-12-20
dc.description.abstractWhen considering modalities of citizenship making, we must examine the criteria by which nations and states regulate processes of selection and the relations of power politics used to normalize and adjust subjects rendering them loyal, governable citizens. In our times, the State’s capacity to define cultural identity within very explicit and oftentimes implicit socio-economic contexts and to construct and manipulate social processes enables it to increasingly determine the lives and activities of humans as subjects.
dc.format.extent3 pages
dc.identifier.citationAntrocom, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 107-109
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/1690
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherAntrocom Association
dc.relationhttp://www.antrocom.net/upload/sub/antrocom/050209/05-Antrocom.pdf
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
dc.subjectbiopolitics
dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectSoutheast Asians
dc.subjectcitizenship
dc.subject.lcshEthnology
dc.subject.lcshUnited States
dc.titleTransforming Refugees: Biopolitics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText

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