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migrants are hence made into a faceless, depoliticised subclass excepted from the ter-
ritorial sovereignty, or what Agamben (1998) famously termed the ''homo sacer.'' Not
registering the death, as argued above, further illustrates this. Such EU-depoliticisation
and dehumanisation not only suppresses the humanitarian value of people outside the
codes of what the EU sees as added value but also misrecognises the social entrepren-
eurship, the creative way of escaping their fate and future in their native country.
Figure 7.3
The immigration death atlas in Europe (source:
http://www.unltedagalnstraclsm.org
).
Human blacklisting: the global apartheid of the EU's external border regime.
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The above-described machine-like apparatus for decision making is constantly working
tofinallybeabletomakeabinarydecision:stayorgo.Formanytheactualbureaucratic
production of the final decision is taking a long time. As a result, over time, the migra-
tion to the EU for those migrants who are seen as a burden and for whom a “decision”
has to be made, has led, as argued above, to a buffer zone geopolitics with a new land-
scape of asylum camps that act as—taking Michel Serres (2007) word
pests
for the host
body literally—parasites, within the state borders yet outside in a space where EU cit-
izenship is placed in suspension. In the words of the scholar who is most often used
