ABSTRACT

This article reassesses globalization in light of research, policy, and reforms directed towards ‘the migrant’ during times of crisis. In dialogue with Derrida's discussion of hospitality, the article questions the grounds that figure ‘the migrant’ as a metonym for globalization's dangers – as excess mobility menacing the foundational sovereignty of nation-states. With Sweden as a point of reference, the article interrelates three seemingly distinct techniques for evaluating notions of arrival – data visualizations comparing ‘the migrant’ against those ‘without immigrant background’, curriculum and pedagogy seeking to integrate and include according to psychologized norms and values, and critical qualitative research representing migrant voice. At issue in each is how the gesture of hospitality seeks to render arrival calculable, establishing the authority and beneficence of the host and leaving ‘the migrant’ indefinitely at the threshold of (non)belonging. Efforts to represent the migrant through notions of experience and ‘voice’ risk naturalizing hospitality's asymmetries and exclusions, while impeding reflexivity toward the conditions upon which hospitality remains tenuously granted.

摘要

本文根据危机时期针对“移民”的研究、政策和改革重新评估全球化。在与德里达关于好客的讨论的对话中，文章质疑将“移民”视为全球化危险的代名词的理由——过度流动威胁着民族国家的基本主权。以瑞典为参考，这篇文章将三种看似不同的评估抵达概念的技术相互关联——将“移民”与“没有移民背景”的人进行比较的数据可视化、根据心理规范和价值观寻求整合和纳入的课程和教学法，以及代表移民声音的批判性定性研究。每个人的问题是热情好客的姿态如何使到达可计算，建立东道主的权威和仁慈，并将“移民”无限期地留在（非）归属感的门槛上。通过经验和“声音”的概念来代表移民的努力有可能使款待的不对称和排斥自然化，同时阻碍对款待仍然微弱的条件的反思。