Asylum and the post-political : domopolitics, depoliticisation and acts of citizenship

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
This paper explores the ways in which practices of asylum governance serve to depoliticise those seeking asylum in the UK. First, it analyses irregular migrant's “acts of citizenship”, and suggests that such prosaic acts can be powerful forms of political interruption through which new ways of seeing asylum are constructed. It concludes by suggesting that an incremental politics orientated around such acts of interruption is essential to challenge the material, affective and discursive closures of asylum domopolitics.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Antipode, issn : 0066-4812, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 1, p. 72-91, nombre de pages : 20, Références bibliographiques : 4 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Blackwell