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CIAO DATE: 10/06
Les expulsés inexpulsables. Recompositions du contrôle des étrangers dans la France des années 1930
Nicolas Fischer
No. 53 - Spring 2004 - Cross Perspectives On Political Surveillance
Abstract
The camp, as a social institution allowing for the isolation of undesirable individuals, is inseparable from the specific forms of power characteristic of the 20th century. Thus, the establishment of camps cannot be analysed as an isolated phenomenon, but has to be analysed in relation to the assemblage that gives its social meaning. This is what Nicolas Fischer shows in this article through the example of the detention camps that where projected in France in the end of the 1930s. The author shows that these camps were projected in order to control and isolate the illegal migrants waiting to be expelled from the country. Many of these were considered as outcasts because of their nationality or social origin and the specific treatments they were subject to reveal the essence of power at the dawn of the Second World War.