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The more I try to clarify what home is, the less I know anything about it. It slips through my fingers like the air I breathe. It is at once the most familiar, the most common, and the most elusive subject I can think of; utterly concrete and wholly invisible. What I have been trying to understand and discuss through this thesis is how our philosophies—our concepts—of self, shape our politics of ‘us’ and ‘them’, like I have been witnessing them doing in the asylum politics and Willkommenskultur of Germany.
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Metzger-Traber, J. (2018). (In)conclusions: Leaping into the Abyss. In: If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee. Masters of Peace. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22365-6_10
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