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Accepted Paper:
Under the borders, the people
Anna Morvern
(Immigration Adviser)
Paper short abstract:
not used
Paper long abstract:
I will look at developments in UK immigration law and border control, within the broader European context, to track the transformation of the refugee into an unwelcome figure, whose exclusion and expulsion can now legitimately be effected by almost any means. In examining developments in the law, I follow the methodological reasoning of Giorgio Agamben in his reflections on the building of the concentration camps, in 'What is a camp?', where he contends that careful analysis of the political-juridical structure of the camps is necessary to understand at all the horrors committed there. Although my focus is on changes to legislation and language, I consider the political context within which the figure of the refugee has become so degraded and, again inspired by Agamben, in his diagnosis that the refugee is no more but no less than a 'border concept', consider possibilities for citizens and refugees to create a better world to come.
The role and impact of national and regional asylum and immigration policies and controls
Session 1