Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law

by David Farrier

Book Overview

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"