Beneduce Roberto
a Cultures, Politics, and Society , University of Turin , Turin , Italy.
Med Anthropol. 2015;34(6):551-71. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1074576. Epub 2015 Aug 10.
Based on narratives of asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa in northern Italy, in this article I analyze the narrative strategies used by immigrants to meet the eligibility criteria established by asylum law. For many of them, this means "arranging" biographical details within what I call "a moral economy of lying." The first question I discuss is what types of experience and 'subject positions' these narrative strategies reveal or generate. I then examine the arbitrariness and the bureaucratic violence of the asylum evaluation process, and the role of these procedures in the making of nation-language and current technologies of citizenship. Finally, I consider the politics of testification, recognition, and memory these discourses and practices combine to shape. I analyze these issues from an historical point of view of the politics of identity, truth, and falsehood as imposed in a recent past by colonizers onto the colonized.
基于来自意大利北部的撒哈拉以南非洲地区寻求庇护者的叙述，在本文中我分析了移民为满足庇护法规定的资格标准而采用的叙述策略。对他们中的许多人来说，这意味着在我所称的“说谎的道德经济”范围内“编排”个人经历细节。我讨论的第一个问题是这些叙述策略揭示或产生了哪些类型的经历和“主体位置”。然后，我审视了庇护评估过程的随意性和官僚暴力，以及这些程序在国家语言和当前公民身份技术形成过程中的作用。最后，我思考这些话语和实践相结合所塑造的见证、认可和记忆的政治。我从身份、真理和谬误政治的历史角度来分析这些问题，这些政治是殖民者在最近一段时期强加给被殖民者的。
