MIGRATION CRISIS AS THE STATE OF EXCEPTION

Abstract

This paper maps the ongoing crisis of migration at the European borders, in the context of state of emergency theory by Carl Schmitt, as interpreted by Giorgio Agamben. The author analyses current situation of immigrants at the migrant routes and inside the European Union. He argues, that dangers and exclusion that migrants face, are not side effects of the flawed politics, but a core of the neoliberal governing, which aim is not to compromise the critical situation, but to control it in a way, that allows to preserve existing social order. Refugees become contemporary homines sacri, that cannot be sacrificed but can be killed without committing a murder. This model of administration is connected with Foucault's conception of biopolitics. It uses racism as its tool to distinguish between the nation-race and the others, who threaten the population and thus can be eliminated. Finally, the author indicates that discoursed and practices towards migrants, are the mirror image of the same discourses and practices that concert different excluded social groups inside liberal democratic countries.