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Foucault’s Prediction of ‘Live and Let Die’
Stephane J. Baele
Lecturer in International Studies and Security, University of Exeter
Stephane J. Baele Lecturer in International Studies and Security, University of Exeter
Forty years after philosopher Michel Foucault predicted the coming of biopolitics, in which citizens’ well-being mandates the exclusion of noncitizens, Stephane J. Baele argues that his prophecy sums up Europe’s “live and let die” policies in reaction to refugee flows.