ABSTRACT
The doctrine around Migration Management thus began to be formed in secret and, framed by worries over distributive justice and the integrity of the social-liberal democratic system, with a focus on who should be barred from access. Consensus-democracy domesticates and makes impotent. The Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC) regarded international migration in the wider context in which democracy emerged as procedural, appearing apparently neutral, and creating the impression of controlling international migration tout court. Importantly, legal reasoning complements this transformation by which the political and the demos are eliminated from the democratic. The notion of sovereignty, of control and authority, is kept intact, hiding its inconsistency with claims of managing a global social body through secrecy. This is the condition of possibility for Migration Management at the level of conceptualization. Yet Migration Management is radical violence towards those who are suspended.
