This Symposium reflects on the growing relevance of biopolitical perspectives in camps studies, border studies, refugee studies, and in particular in research at the intersection between mobility studies and political geography. The five interventions accordingly engage with questions regarding the use of biopolitics as an analytical framework, but also as a pervasive strategy and governmental tool in Western societies. Through an analysis of several empirical cases – most notably hotspots on the Greek Aegean Island, refugee’s forced hyper mobility in Europe, speech acts connected to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and the ‘voluntary return’ policies in Europe, and the paper borders created by visa systems – the authors indicate new possible fields of enquiry related to the biopolitical critically inspired by the work of authors such as Giorgio Agamben and Jasbir Puar, while also clearly restating the fundamental importance of Foucault’s original contribution to any biopolitical analytical framework today.

这次专题讨论会反映了生物政治观点在难民营研究，边界研究，难民研究中，尤其是在流动性研究与政治地理学交汇处的研究中越来越重要。因此，这五种干预措施都涉及到有关将生物政治学用作分析框架，但也被用作西方社会普遍的战略和政府工具的问题。通过对几个经验案例的分析-最著名的是希腊爱琴海岛的热点地区，难民在欧洲的强迫性过度机动，与缅甸罗兴亚人的种族清洗和欧洲的“自愿回返”政策有关的言语行为，