TY - JOUR
T1 - In a Kafkaesque catacomb
T2 - The killing of Ihor Homenyuk by the Portuguese customs and immigration bureaucracy
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
AU - Rego, Arménio
AU - Clegg, Stewart
AU - Giustiniano, Luca
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52176197, 52100156, and 52100157).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Bureaucracies, especially state bureaucracies, are typified as rational-legal organizations. We study how one such bureaucracy acted as neither rational nor legal but proved to be a space of exclusion. Ihor Homenuyk, a Ukrainian citizen, was ‘retained’ and then killed by the Portuguese foreigners and borders service. Police abuse has been much in the news in recent times, as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement. The issues are wider than those of racial injustice, however; they go to the nub of what it means to protect both the citizen and the honour of these organizations that engage with them in a way that is required to be legally rational. We use the case to open the black box of abuse and advance an explanation of how vicious dynamics happen.
AB - Bureaucracies, especially state bureaucracies, are typified as rational-legal organizations. We study how one such bureaucracy acted as neither rational nor legal but proved to be a space of exclusion. Ihor Homenuyk, a Ukrainian citizen, was ‘retained’ and then killed by the Portuguese foreigners and borders service. Police abuse has been much in the news in recent times, as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement. The issues are wider than those of racial injustice, however; they go to the nub of what it means to protect both the citizen and the honour of these organizations that engage with them in a way that is required to be legally rational. We use the case to open the black box of abuse and advance an explanation of how vicious dynamics happen.
KW - Bureaucracy
KW - bureaucracy ethics
KW - Kafkaesque organizations
KW - legitimacy
KW - police abuse
KW - space of exclusion and exception
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U2 - 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2105497
DO - 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2105497
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135228165
SN - 2158-379X
VL - 16
SP - 23
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Political Power
JF - Journal of Political Power
IS - 1
ER -