“Regard” at the lilies of the fields: The relational dimension of care and the migrant detention camp

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The present article aims to analyze the political dimension of the context of care and protection of precarious migrants. In this sense, we will first turn to the works of Judith Butler e Giorgio Agamben to understand how care is positioned as a political process of managing and preserving the lives of vulnerable groups. Later, we will address the relational dimension of care, conceived in a political framework of recognizing the lives of migrants in the sphere of social justice. With this, we will critically examine the biopolitics of migrant detention camps considering the contributions of Giorgio Agamben, considering how care can be practiced in this context. To elucidate Agamben's thesis on the camp beyond Judith Butler's reflections on care, we examine Kakuma's camp not to expose demographic data, but primarily to analyze the political undertaking that places numerous migrants and refugees in an inhuman condition.