The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum / Migration, Minorities and Citizenship (PDF)

VICKI SQUIRE is RCUK Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), The Open University, UK.

Shortlisted for the 2010 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum is an important addition to critical literature on the politics of refuge in Europe. Squire's assured dissection of the discourses and practices through which the problematic figure of the asylum seeker is produced underpins a fascinating mediation on securitization, sovereign power and territoriality in the contemporary European political order.'

-David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK

'An outstanding contribution to the study of the securitisation of asylum, this book is a must read for anyone interested in the critical study of migration, borders, and citizenship. Through a theorisation of 'acts of citizenship', Vicki Squire brilliantly demonstrates how migrants are emerging as agents that interrupt and move beyond the exclusionary politics of asylum.'

- Peter Nyers, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada

'This is a timely and ambitious book...it constitutes a serious contribution to critical debates on the possibilities of a post-territorial conception of citizenship. Challenging contemporary readings of the politics of migration and highlighting the dangers that are associated with the failure to move beyond a territorially-based conception of citizenship, Vicki Squire offers a theoretically engaging and empirically rich contribution on a burning issue of contemporary politics.'

- Aletta J. Norval, Reader in Political Theory, Department of Government, University of Essex, UK

'Squire's book is a good point of departure for debating issues of asylum, and almost necessary reading for practitioners in the field of asylum.'

- Nordic Journal of Ethnicity and Migration

Decidedly conceptual, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum is a forceful