The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum
Vicki Squire
'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded, The
Exclusionary Politics of Asylum is an important addition to critical
literature on the politics of refuge in Europe. Squire's assured
dissection of the discourses and practices through which the
problematic figure of the asylum seeker is produced underpins a
fascinating mediation on securitisation, sovereign power and
territoriality in the contemporary European political order.' - David
Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of
Southampton, UK
'An outstanding contribution to the study of the securitisation of
asylum, this book is a must read for anyone interested in the critical
study of migration, borders, and citizenship. Squire provides an
historical account of exclusionary policies without lapsing into a
malaise about the lack of political possibilities to contest these
policies. Through a theorisation of 'acts of citizenship', the book
brilliantly demonstrates how migrants are emerging as agents that
interrupt and move beyond the exclusionary politics of asylum.' -
Peter Nyers, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
McMaster University, Canada
'This is a timely and ambitious book, which highlights the dangers
that are associated with the failure to move beyond a territorially-
based conception of citizenship. Challenging contemporary readings of
the politics of migration, Squire contributes to critical debates on
the possibilities of a post-territorial conception of citizenship as
well as to a burning issue of contemporary politics.' - Aletta J.
Norval, Reader in Political Theory, Department of Government,
University of Essex, UK
The issue of asylum has become the focus of intense debate over recent
years, much of which is organized around questions regarding how far
and in what ways increasing numbers of asylum seekers pose a 'problem'
or a 'threat' to 'host' states. This book steps back from this debate
in order to consider how, why and with what effects such questions
have come to take such a hold in UK and EU contexts. Critiquing the
securitisation and criminalisation of asylum seeking, it analyses
recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical,
political and European contexts, and argues that the UK response
effectively produces asylum seekers as scapegoats for dislocations
that are caused by the shifting boundaries of the nation state. Any
move beyond such an exclusionary politics, it claims, requires a
distinctly political re-thinking of asylum, as well as of citizenship
more widely.
CONTENTS: PART I: INTRODUCING THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: THE
MANAGEMENT OF DISLOCATION * A Dislocated Territorial Order?
Introducing the Asylum 'Problem' * Challenging Managerial Operations:
Developing a Discursive Theory of Securitisation * PART II: THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: POLITICAL, PUBLIC
AND POPULAR NARRATIVES OF CONTROL * Moving to Europe: Charting the
Emergence of Exclusionary Asylum Discourse * Restricting
Contestations: Exclusionary Narratives and the Dominance of
Restriction * PART III: THE EXTENSION AND DIFFUSION OF THE
EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: DETERRENT TECHNOLOGIES OF 'INTERNAL'
AND 'EXTERNAL' CONTROL * Interception as Criminalisation: The
Extension of Interdictive Controls * Dispersal as Abjectification: The
Diffusion of Punitive Controls * PART IV: CONTESTING THE EXCLUSIONARY
POLITICS OF ASYLUM: FROM DETERRENCE TO ENGAGEMENT * Sovereign Power,
Abject Spaces and Resistance: Contending Accounts of Asylum *
Rethinking Asylum, Rethinking Citizenship: Moving Beyond Exclusionary
Politics * Conclusion
VICKI SQUIRE is RCUK Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship,
Identities and Governance and at the Department of Politics and
International Studies (POLIS), The Open University, UK.
April 2009 Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-21659-4
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=294349
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