« Zones of No-Right » in Democracy
In Western democracies, evolving migration policies in the last thirty years have brought about a shift in the administrative practices of control and the institution of regimes of detention at the borders. Such is the case of the « Waiting Zone for People in Proceedings » in the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle in France. The way migrations are managed through border-line situations of control and dispossession raises new issues about the political effects of alien detention in the democratic public space of the so-called « host »-society. Far from ideas of rationality and maximized management, such practices should not be only considered in regards to the claimed objective of controlling alien population. In fact, these practices come within a complex economy of emotions, which involves apprehension, protection, indignation, compassion. They imply questions of legality and legitimation in the democratic public space and the definition of new practices of government.