Victims of War: Syrians as the Homines Sacri


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9th International Conference on Social Researches and Behavioral Sciences, Antalya, Türkiye, 25 - 27 Haziran 2021

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

With the political tension between either domestically legitimate or illegitimate actors in Syria, the civil war broke out on March 15, 2011 so that many people had impelledly or forcedly to migrate neighboring countries via crossing the land or maritime boundaries. These demographic transitions, in which many people, particularly children, lost their lives, led admittedly European and Middle Eastern governmental actors and institutions to follow the state of migratory exception policies. The state of exception revealing the homo sacer through including the exclusion of bodies for Giorgio Agamben, corresponds to the temporary suspension of existing legal norms, but the permanent state of this temporality. By problematizing the illustrations from European and Middle Eastern countries, this paper thus deals with the inclusionary exclusion of Syrians as homines sacri produced by the residential countries as suspending laws in force that can devalue people's lives and deaths. 

With the political tension between either domestically legitimate or illegitimate actors in Syria, the civil war broke out on March 15, 2011 so that many people had impelledly or forcedly to migrate neighboring countries via crossing the land or maritime boundaries. These demographic transitions, in which many people, particularly children, lost their lives, led admittedly European and Middle Eastern governmental actors and institutions to follow the state of migratory exception policies. The state of exception revealing the homo sacer through including the exclusion of bodies for Giorgio Agamben, corresponds to the temporary suspension of existing legal norms, but the permanent state of this temporality. By problematizing the illustrations from European and Middle Eastern countries, this paper thus deals with the inclusionary exclusion of Syrians as homines sacri produced by the residential countries as suspending laws in force that can devalue people's lives and deaths.