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@article{ Tyler2006,
 title = {‘Welcome to Britain’},
 author = {Tyler, Imogen},
 journal = {European Journal of Cultural Studies},
 number = {2},
 pages = {185-202},
 volume = {9},
 year = {2006},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549406063163},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226812},
 abstract = {Questions of asylum and immigration have taken centre stage in national and                international debate and figure prominently in the domestic political agendas of                wealthy states and nations. In Australia, Europe and the US, harsh and punitive                asylum and immigration laws are being enacted incrementally and asylum-seekers are                subject increasingly to detention. Through a focus on the detention of                asylum-seekers in the UK, this article makes a critical intervention in current                theoretical debates around asylum.Focusing on the writing of Giorgio Agamben, this                article suggests that within political and cultural theory, there has been a turn to                the figure of the asylum-seeker (and the refugee) as a trope for theorizing the                political constitution of the present. By opening up a critical dialogue between                humanitarian, media studies and abstract theoretical accounts of immigration                detention, this article produces a critique of the ways in which theory appropriates                the figure of the asylum-seeker.},
}