The alien body in contemporary Netherlands: incarceration and force-feeding of asylum seekers
Placing asylum seekers under the category of “detainees’ effectively puts them in the hands of the state, which has a “strong duty to care’ for persons under its responsibility. Consequently, force-feeding is read as ‘giving care”. Within this construction, the deprivation of freedom (being detained by the Dutch state) and violence (being subjected to non-consented bodily intervention) are transformed into
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