The Camp Under a Capitalist Mode of Production
摘要
This chapter considers the production of camp space under a capitalist mode of production. The chapter begins by locating the camp within the spatial layout of global capitalism—i.e. within abstract space, before analysing the role of the camp in relation to the production of precarious workers, and the channelling of camp residents into precarious agricultural labour. The following section examines how racial differentiation is integral to a capitalist mode of production, and explores how the camp functions to produce and maintain racialised alterity. The latter half of the chapter illustrates how the camps on the Greek mainland were implicated in the maintenance and expansion of the flow of capital, both within and beyond legal frameworks. This chapter concludes by considering the role of the camp as a key site within what has been termed the humanitarian/immigration-industrial complex.