Foreigners and the Bio-Political State: Case Studies of Hungarian and Bosnian Refugees in Switzerland

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Nina Sophie Overneyen
dc.contributor.committeechairNelson, Scott G.en
dc.contributor.committeememberToal, Gerarden
dc.contributor.committeememberNatter, Wolfgang Georgeen
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:36:33Zen
dc.date.adate2009-06-10en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:36:33Zen
dc.date.issued2009-05-19en
dc.date.rdate2009-06-10en
dc.date.sdate2009-05-22en
dc.description.abstractIn modern societies foreigners are implicated in the resolution of the problem of state sovereignty. This paper clarifies how foreign groups can be used by the state to reconstitute the nation in such a way that vulnerabilities are mended. Michel Foucault's racism and bio-politics are used as conceptual tools to gain insight on how the perpetually open question of who belongs and who does not belong to the population might be settled. This theoretical problem is illustrated with the help of case studies on two significant "crisis moments" for the Swiss state: the arrival of the Hungarian refugees in the late 1950s and the arrival of the Bosnian refugees in the early to mid 1990s.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05222009-023225en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05222009-023225/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42775en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartMAThesisETD2.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectmigrationen
dc.subjectbio-politicsen
dc.subjectSwitzerlanden
dc.titleForeigners and the Bio-Political State: Case Studies of Hungarian and Bosnian Refugees in Switzerlanden
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
MAThesisETD2.pdf
Size:
1.12 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Masters Theses