Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stratton, Jon
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2009
Subjects:	migration state of exception neoliberalism Agamben asylum seekers Australia border race
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17572

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