The term vulnerability has become increasingly integral to humanitarian legislation, policies, discourse, and procedures in contexts of displacement. While people categorized as “vulnerable persons” are ostensibly entitled to specialized care, this categorization is widely used to divide people into those “legitimate” and “illegitimate” to receive basic rights and care. Critical feminist scholarship has highlighted how gender is the dominant lens through which vulnerability is constructed and recognized. This affects all people during displacement. However, here we address the implications of this framework for men’s experiences of displacement, exploring as a case study the issue of housing for displaced people in Greece. Drawing on our independent fieldwork and interviews with humanitarians and displaced men, we demonstrate how gendered conceptions of vulnerability are not only integrated into institutionalized immigration apparatuses but also circulate in the everyday discourses, practices, and affective economies that constitute the Greek care regime. The result is that a form of necropolitics is exercised against men, forcing them to reside in conditions of slow violence and permanent injury. We address the gendered nature of this necropolitics as well as the gender-specific consequences for men at Europe’s borders.

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死亡政治边界中的性别脆弱性：希腊流离失所男性的物质和情感遗弃


脆弱性一词已日益成为流离失所背景下的人道主义立法、政策、讨论和程序的组成部分。虽然被归类为“弱势群体”的人表面上有权获得专门照顾，但这种分类被广泛用于将人们分为“合法”和“非法”以获得基本权利和照顾。批判的女权主义学术研究强调了性别如何成为构建和认识脆弱性的主要镜头。这影响到流离失所期间的所有人。然而，在这里，我们探讨了这一框架对男性流离失所经历的影响，并以希腊流离失所者的住房问题作为案例研究。利用我们的独立实地调查以及对人道主义者和流离失所者的采访，我们展示了性别脆弱性概念如何不仅融入制度化的移民机构，而且在构成希腊护理制度的日常话语、实践和情感经济中传播。结果是，对男性实行了某种形式的死亡政治，迫使他们生活在缓慢暴力和永久伤害的环境中。我们探讨这种死亡政治的性别本质，以及对欧洲边境男性的特定性别后果。