The Affective Futures of Waiting for Regularization
摘要
In this chapter, I conclude the book through a discussion of the circulation of affects such as (im)patience, hope and optimism. I argue that the hope and optimism associated with ‘waiting for regularization’ can be cruel, in BerlantBerlant, L.’s (2011) sense, keeping people attached to the pursuit of papersregularization as the way to a ‘better future’ and paradoxically hindering present well-being. However, un/documented migrants’ tenacity and endurance also points to their incorrigibilityincorrigibility. Despite the disciplinarydiscipline effects of regimes of border policingpolicing and immigration law enforcement, they do not passively wait for state-defined outcomes, but continue to circumvent or subvert borders, and to enact an elementary freedom to move, and to ‘move well’.