Rhetoric of exclusion

The rhetoric of exclusion invariably originates in and with manifestations of borders, and hence consistently also turns on conceptions of inclusion – an order of non-belonging and belonging, of outside and inside, there and here. Borderization and the discourses the process generates take place in all spheres of the migratory, on multiple levels, and in various modalities: Social media, detention centers, the gravitas of assumed cultural/epistemological paradigms, the institutionalized discourses of law and foreign policy are all constitutive of as well as constituted by a rhetoric of exclusion and inclusion.           
This thematic area invites papers from all disciplines reflecting on the representations, expressions, interpretations, and/or the relationality of such rhetoric in relation to for instance economy, geography, politics, aesthetics, epistemology, the social, the cultural, the judicial, to mention some. Research may be based in fieldwork including but in no way limited to legal documents, literature, art, border crossing practices, linguistic traditions, concepts of ghettoization and integration, religious and/or ethical customs, or technology.