1st Edition
Asylum Seekers, Sovereignty, and the Senses of the International A Politico-corporeal Struggle
By Eeva Puumala
Copyright 2017
212 Pages
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The confrontation between asylum seeking and sovereignty has mainly focused on ways in which the movement and possibilities of refugees and migrants are limited. In this volume, instead of departing from the practices of governance and surveillance, Puumala begins with the moving body, its engagements and relations and examines different ways of seeing and sensing the struggle between asylum... Read more
Preface
Event 1: Ethnographic experiences
Chapter 1: Exposure
Event 2: Political lives, professional ethics, and sovereign practices
Chapter 2: Sovereignty, mobility, the body
Event 3: Asylum, a monologist narrative of the state?
Chapter 3: A struggle over the body
Event 4: Passages and dislocations
Chapter 4: Moving (in) space
Event 5: The feltness of sovereignty
Chapter 5: Sensuous politics, political sentiments
Collage of a politico-corporeal struggle
References
Appendix
Biography
Eeva Puumala is a post-doctoral researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the University of Tampere, Finland
