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Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- UK : Routledge, 2009.
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Abstract
- Over the last twenty years or so there has been a greatly increased anxiety in Australia over those people now often identified as asylum seekers. In this article I argue that this change of attitude is connected with the ongoing reconstruction of Australia as a neoliberal state. I link the importance of the border of the nation-state with the development of capitalism and go on to argue that there is a direct relation between the assumptions of neoliberalism and Giorgio Agamben's theorization of the state of exception. With this argument I suggest that the state of exception is fundamentally raced. I discuss the Australian relationship between migrants, race and capitalism, which historically worked in terms of the White Australia policy, and think about how asylum seekers are understood to threaten the racialized, neoliberal order of Australian capitalism. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
Agamben
Refugee
media_common.quotation_subject
Neoliberalism
neoliberalism
Australia
Gender studies
Capitalism
migration
state of exception
White Australia policy
Race (biology)
State (polity)
Argument
border
Sociology
State of exception
race
media_common
asylum seekers
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a1c20708bef19e02dce469f596a7613d