The case of Ahmad Shamieh's campaign against Dublin deportation : embodiment of political violence and community care

Zorn, Jelka (author)

Differently from studies that analyze antideportation struggles in relation to concepts of state sovereignty and (un)making of citizenship, this paper focuses more on intersection of politics and body. It discusses struggle for the "place in the world" as an embodied experience. Ahmad Shamieh came to Slovenia in 2016 through the humanitarian corridor on the Balkan route. The Slovene Ministry of the Interior refused to examine his asylum claim and instead issued him a Dublin Regulation decision, stating that he was to be deported to Croatia. Ahmad's and his supporters' legal and political struggle, which lasted several years, prevented his deportation. In contrast to state's politics of exclusion, causing dehumanization and traumatization the grassroots community struggle developed the politics of inclusion, solidarity and care from below, in practice transforming the conditions of belonging.

• Language: English
• Keywords: solidarity, deportability trauma, refugees, migrant struggle, Dublin regulation, Slovenia, Autonomous Factory Rog, squat, embodiment, radical politics
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FSD - Faculty of Social Work
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 10, iss. 5, art. 154
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135223
• UDC: 314.15-054.73(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 2076-0760
• DOI: 10.3390/socsci10050154
• COBISS.SI-ID: 64531203
• Publication date in RUL: 01.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Social sciences
• Shortened title: Soc. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-0760
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32378973

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.05.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: solidarnost, deportacijska travma, begunci, migrantski boj, Dublinska uredba, Slovenija, Avtonomna tovarna Rog, skvot, utelešenost, radikalna politika

Projects

• Funder: HRZZ - Croatian Science Foundation
• Project number: IP-2019-04-6642
• Name: The European irregularized migration regime in the periphery of the EU: From ethnography to keywords

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0058
• Name: Socialno delo kot nosilec procesov družbenega vključevanja in socialne pravičnosti v Sloveniji - teoretske podlage, metodološke in metodične usmeritve in zgodovinski razvoj