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Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia

This paper addresses issues related to irregular immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the migration process in Malaysia. This article uses Foucauldian biopolitics as a theoretical framework to explain state practices on immigrant bodies. Firstl...

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Main Authors: Cingir, Omer Faruk, Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu
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Published: Faculty of Economics and Administration 2022
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spelling my.um.eprints.431792023-10-09T09:17:24Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/43179/ Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia Cingir, Omer Faruk Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu H Social Sciences (General) This paper addresses issues related to irregular immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the migration process in Malaysia. This article uses Foucauldian biopolitics as a theoretical framework to explain state practices on immigrant bodies. Firstly, it provides a general picture of irregular immigration in Southeast Asia and Malaysia; secondly, it summarises the effects of the pandemic; and lastly it provides an overall outlook of irregular immigrants and the practices they were exposed to at this time. This study adopts exploratory and explanatory qualitative research design and data collection techniques such as document analysis of non-governmental reports on immigrants, official statistics, declarations and articles produced by third party organisations and interviews with experts. This paper then adopts a post-structuralist perspective within an interpretative paradigm to comprehend the main problems, social arrangements and rationality of institutional dynamics of the management of irregular immigrants. The main findings show that increasing human rights violations of irregular migrants generate from a biopolitical mentality. © 2022, Faculty of Economics and Administration. All rights reserved. Faculty of Economics and Administration 2022 Article PeerReviewed Cingir, Omer Faruk and Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu (2022) Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia. Institutions and Economies, 14 (1). 49 – 75. ISSN 22321640, DOI https://doi.org/10.22452/IJIE.vol14no1.3 <https://doi.org/10.22452/IJIE.vol14no1.3>. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122211614&doi=10.22452%2fIJIE.vol14no1.3&partnerID=40&md5=76a5453527bff7c68739adf459acd705 10.22452/IJIE.vol14no1.3
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
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Cingir, Omer Faruk
Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu
Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia
description This paper addresses issues related to irregular immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the migration process in Malaysia. This article uses Foucauldian biopolitics as a theoretical framework to explain state practices on immigrant bodies. Firstly, it provides a general picture of irregular immigration in Southeast Asia and Malaysia; secondly, it summarises the effects of the pandemic; and lastly it provides an overall outlook of irregular immigrants and the practices they were exposed to at this time. This study adopts exploratory and explanatory qualitative research design and data collection techniques such as document analysis of non-governmental reports on immigrants, official statistics, declarations and articles produced by third party organisations and interviews with experts. This paper then adopts a post-structuralist perspective within an interpretative paradigm to comprehend the main problems, social arrangements and rationality of institutional dynamics of the management of irregular immigrants. The main findings show that increasing human rights violations of irregular migrants generate from a biopolitical mentality. © 2022, Faculty of Economics and Administration. All rights reserved.
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title Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia
title_short Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia
title_full Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia
title_fullStr Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Foucauldian biopolitics, irregular immigrants and COVID-19 in Malaysia
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publisher Faculty of Economics and Administration
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