The Library
Accidents, agency and asylum : constructing the refugee subject
Tools
Behrman, Simon (2014) Accidents, agency and asylum : constructing the refugee subject. Law and Critique, 25 (3). pp. 249-270. doi:10.1007/s10978-014-9140-x ISSN 0957-8536.
Research output not available from this repository.
Request-a-Copy directly from author or use local Library Get it For Me service.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-014-9140-x
Abstract
Refugee law demands that the asylum seeker demonstrate an extremely limited and distorted form of agency that is encapsulated within the legal definition of the refugee. Such a framework also denies the role of the accidental in the refugee experience. I argue that the problem lies at the heart of the legal form, as constructed under capitalism. The sans-papiers show us the potential for refugees themselves to reconstruct a subjectivity that transcends the distorted form of agency and the false dichotomy between the accidental and agency found in law, through their rejection of legal definitions and the re-emergence of themselves as political subjects.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Law and Critique | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0957-8536 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2014 | ||||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||||
Volume: | 25 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 249-270 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10978-014-9140-x | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |