Migration as a way-of-life: politics and language from Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

This article immerses itself in the field of language, thinking about the concept of way of life in a political dimension in the field of migration. To do it, we resort to the works of Giorgio Agamben, especially the works Homo Sacer: sovereign power and naked life (1995), Highest Poverty: monastic rules and form of life (2011), The use of bodies (2017). We follow a methodological path based on an interpretative analysis of these works. Thus, we argue that migration can be understood as a way of life. In this sense, finally, we establish a relationship between the concept of forms-of-life and the theme of migration, aiming to radicalize a certain rupture in the normative limits present in the language of current politics – which has only been concerned In this sense, finally, we establish a relationship between the concept of forms of life and the theme of migration, aiming to radicalize a certain rupture in the normative limits present in the language of current politics – which has only been concerned with carrying out the biopolitical capture of lives, separating them from their forms.