Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia
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 importan...
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| description | 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 nationstate 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-175722019-02-19T05:34:59Z Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia Stratton, Jon migration state of exception neoliberalism Agamben asylum seekers Australia border race 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 nationstate 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. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17572 10.1080/13504630903205324 Taylor & Francis fulltext |
| spellingShingle | migration state of exception neoliberalism Agamben asylum seekers Australia border race Stratton, Jon Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia |
| title | Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia |
| title_full | Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia |
| title_fullStr | Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia |
| title_short | Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia |
| title_sort | uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in australia |
| topic | migration state of exception neoliberalism Agamben asylum seekers Australia border race |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17572 |