Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law

(Part of the Postcolonialism across the Disciplines Series)

by David Farrier

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Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary culture of host nations casts asylum seekers as contemporary incarnations of the infrahuman object of colonial sovereignty. Postcolonial Asylum includes readings of the work of asylum seeker and postcolonial authors and filmmakers, including J.M. Coetzee,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1846314801

ISBN13:9781846314803

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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