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The Limits of Hospitality. Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies

Conference Presentation

Event: Festival of Political Philosophy

Location: University of Salento, Italy

Date: September 20, 2019

Abstract

This presentation explored the concept of hospitality as a political mechanism of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary European societies. Drawing on doctoral research on the hotspot system and asylum reception, the analysis examined how hospitality operates as a governmental technology that simultaneously opens and closes borders.

Details

A presentation examining how hospitality functions as a political technology in European migration governance, analyzing the mechanisms through which inclusion and exclusion are simultaneously enacted in contemporary border regimes.

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Hospitality Inclusion Exclusion Political Philosophy Europe