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122 Andrej Kurnik
The erased are going to heaven
The article is an attempt to analyze the protagonism
of the Erased. Such analysis clarifies reciprocity of
the constitution of national and imperial sovereignty,
crisis of nation-form and enables the transfer of some
fundamental alternatives in the history of political
thought and practice to the level of the becoming post
national citizenship. Analysis that starts with Petri’s film
Working class goes to heaven is built upon biopolitical
paradigm and the notion of constitution of citizenship
as citizenship practices that shift borders of citizenship.
Keywords: biopolitics, national sovereignty,
imperial sovereignty, nation-form, erased, constitution
of citizenship, globalization
139 Imma Tuccillo Castaldo
Immobilized citizenships
It is impossible to politically think the »fate« and
»mission« of the EU without a definition of European
citizenship. The crisis of the nation state has left us
with a heavy legacy: national citizenship has become
a mechanism of anthropological differentiation. The
human rights abuses (those occurring to erased in
Slovenia, many Roma, people born or brought up in
Italy who are de facto without citizenship or who are
»illegal« individuals) all begin with the »restoration«
of that civil status that marks the paradigm of exclusion.
The originality of the European programme
that sifts through the masses lies in the fact that law
has transformed the right to »mobility« into the right
of »free flow«: this is useful and necessary within
a permanent structure such as the EU as a geopolitical
entity, its political-legal de-localisation and
dis-location.
Keywords: European citizenship, civil status, free
flow, non-citizenship in Italy, immobilized existence
deployment of the theory of ritual we can see the
erased as a liminal phenomenon: this administrative
category has, from the beginning of the 1990s
onwards, gone through processes akin to those of
initiation and has found itself in a »permanent« condition
of being »in between«. We can also examine
the exclusion, indetermination, and uncleanliness of
the erased through the concept of the metaphor and
its assumed potential of uniting otherwise separated
categories. The result of such cognitive play is insight
into the preconceptions concerning some opinions
on the erased.
Keywords: liminalty, metaphor, uncleanliness,
order
157 Igor Mekina
The erasure of the erasure
This article describes the events before and after the
erasure, and how this act became publicly known
in the first half of the 1990s. A frequent excuse
concerns the statements that while the erasure was
occurring, nobody actually knew about it. What is
forgotten in this is that the erasure happened in an
atmosphere that was hostile towards migrants from
former Yugoslavia. The excuse that »nobody knew«
what the problem was does not hold. Descriptions
of cases of the erased were meticulously described
in the magazine Mladina . This article tries to show
how the rapturousness of independence numbed
many civil society associations that should otherwise
have been critical to human rights abuses and how
the various institutions of the state started acting
according to »feeling« instead of in accordance with
the law. With this they gave in to the atmosphere
of pogrom and xenophobia that was created at the
breakup of Yugoslavia.
Keywords: erasure, Mladina, administrative ethnic
cleansing, Ministry of internal affairs, xenophobia
148 Marta Stojić
Erasure: from liminality to metaphor
This article analyses the phenomenon of erasure
through an anthropological perspective. Through the
171 Svetlana Vasović
Expulsion into death
This article deals with only one example of the
erased, one that, however, proves that some of
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