Donatella Di Cesare - Resident Foreigners

1 Title page Resident Foreigners A Philosophy of Migration Donatella Di Cesare Translated by David Broder polity

2 Copyright page Copyright page First published in Italian as Stranieri Residenti © Bollati Boringhieri 2017 This English edition © Polity Press, 2020 Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3354-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3355-8 (pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Di Cesare, Donatella, author. Title: Resident foreigners : a philosophy of migration / Donatella Di Cesare. Other titles: Stranieri residenti. English Description: English edition. | Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019014899 (print) | LCCN 2019980058 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509533541 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509533558 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781509533572 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration--Philosophy. Classification: LCC JV6035 .D4913 2019 (print) | LCC JV6035 (ebook) | DDC 304.801--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014899 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019980058 Typeset in 10.5 on 12 pt Times New Roman by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Limited The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

3 Dedication Dedication To my grandfather Francesco La Torre, anarchist and socialist, who set off from Marseilles and landed, clandestinely, at Ellis Island in 1925

4 Introduction: In Short

5 1 Migrants and the State 1 Ellis Island 2 When the migrant unmasks the state 3 The state-centric order 4 A fundamental hostility 5 Beyond sovereignty: a marginal note 6 Philosophy and migration 7 A shipwreck with an audience: on today’s debate 8 Thinking from the shore 9 Migration and modernity 10 Columbus and the image of the globe 11 ‘We refugees’: the scum of the Earth 12 What rights for the stateless? 13 The frontier of democracy 14 The sovereigntism of closed borders 15 Philosophers against Samaritans 16 The primacy of citizens and the dogma of self-determination 17 If the state were a club: liberalism based on exclusion 18 The defence of national integrity 19 Owning the land: a baseless myth 20 Freedom of movement and birthright privileges 21 Migrants against the poor? Welfare chauvinism and global justice 22 Neither exodus, nor ‘deportation’, nor ‘human trafficking’ 23 Ius migrandi : for the right to migrate 24 Mare liberum and the sovereign’s word 25 Kant, the right to visit and residency denied Notes

6 2 The End of Hospitality? 1 The continent of migrants 2 ‘Us’ and ‘them’: the grammar of hatred 3 Europe, 2015 4 Hegel, the Mediterranean and the cemetery of the sea 5 Fadoul’s story 6 ‘Refugees’ and ‘migrants’: impossible classifications 7 The metamorphoses of the exile 8 Asylum: from ambiguous right to a dispositif of power 9 ‘You’re not from here’: an existential negation 10 The migrant’s original sin 11 ‘Illegals’: being condemned to invisibility 12 The terms of domination: ‘integration’ and ‘naturalization’ 13 When the immigrant remains an émigré 14 The foreigner who lives outside, the foreigner who lives within 15 Clandestine passages, heterotopias, anarchic routes Notes

7 3 Resident Foreigners 1 On exile 2 Neither rootlessness nor roaming without direction 3 Phenomenology of habitation 4 What does it mean to migrate? 5 The global uprooting 6 ‘The earth-born’: Athens and the myth of autochthony 7 Rome: the city without origin and imperial citizenship 8 The theological–political charter of the ger 9 Jerusalem, the City of foreigners 10 On return Notes

8 4 Living Together in the New Millennium 1 The new age of walls 2 Lampedusa: of what border is it the name? 3 Condemned to immobility 4 The world of the camps 5 The passport, a paradoxical document 6 ‘To each their own home!’ Crypto-racism and the new Hitlerism 7 Hospitality: in the impasse between ethics and politics 8 Beyond citizenship 9 The limits of cosmopolitanism 10 Community, immunity, welcome 11 When Europe drowned … 12 The power of place 13 What does cohabiting mean? 14 Resident foreigners Notes

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