Asylum Seekers, Sovereignty, and the Senses of the International - A Politico-corporeal Struggle (Hardcover)

The confrontation between asylum seeking and sovereignty has mainly focused on ways in which the movement and possibilities of refugees and migrants are limited. In this volume, instead of departing from the practices of governance and surveillance, Puumala begins with the moving body, its engagements and relations and examines different ways of seeing and sensing the struggle between asylum seekers and sovereign practices. Puumala asserts that our political imagination is being challenged in its ways of ordering, practicing and thinking about the international and those relations we call international. The issues relating to asylum seekers are one example of the deficiencies in the spatiotemporal logic upon which these relations were originally built; words such as 'nation', 'people', 'sovereignty' and 'community' are challenged. Conventional methods of governing, regulating and administering increased forms of mobility are in trouble, which gives rise to the invention of new technologies at borders and introduces regulations and spaces of exception. Based on extensive fieldwork that sheds light on a range of Europe-wide practices in the field of asylum and migration policies, this book will be of interest to scholars of IR theory, biopolitics and migration, as well as critical security more broadly.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Interventions
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Eeva Puumala
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-94488-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Refugees & political asylum Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	1-138-94488-2
Barcode:	9781138944886

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