Squire, Vicki (2009) The exclusionary politics of asylum. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. ISBN 9780230216594

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Place of Publication:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY
ISBN:	9780230216594
Official Date:	2009
Dates:	Date Event 2009 Published
Number of Pages:	272
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Funder:	(ESRC) Economic and Social Research Council
Grant number:	PTA-026-27-1294 (ESRC)

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