Abstract
Surveillance over migrant workers and immigrants from Turkey in Germany is a means of inclusion/exclusion in order to construct them as "suitable" foreign objects. As surveillance objects, Turkish workers and immigrants affect surveillance regimes by complying with, neutralizing, negotiating and resisting surveillance. Surveillance regimes are slowly but surely changing their character: how far does the supposed theoretical shift from the disciplinary society to the society of control explain this?
Topal's aim is to make use of, examine, question and modify the discipline/control thesis derived from the works of Deleuze, Foucault, and Hardt and Negri. To fulfill this aim, his study builds on the empirical explanations of the real-life surveillance experiences of Turkish migrant workers and immigrants. By concretizing Deleuzean theories, he tries to develop a subject-focused perspective while conceptualizing so-called disciplinary and control societies.
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The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada