Lucy Mayblin joined the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, in 2016 as Assistant Professor and ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow. In this sense, I am taking as my starting point the sophisticated analyses of forced migrants and sans-papiers and elaborating their conclusions with academic study. It is an attempt to make sense of the dehumanisation of asylum seekers not as racism, but as enmeshed within interconnected histories -of ideas of distinct geographically located ‘races’, of human beings as hierarchy organised in relation to civilization, and of colonial power relations. The book is a historical sociology which brings together postcolonial and decolonial theories on the hierarchical ordering of human beings, troubling the supposedly universal category of ‘man’ within the epistemological framework of ‘modernity’, and naming the response of the British state (which acts as the case study) to contemporary asylum seekers as an example of the coloniality of power. The aim of the book is to begin theorising asylum policy within the context of such histories to make sense of contemporary public policy developments on asylum within the context of histories of colonialism. This presentation explores aspects of my recent book ‘Asylum After Empire: Postcolonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking’. And yet these connections are rarely made by academics. Seminar held on 24 October 2018 About the seminarĪsylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants often draw attention to the global colonial histories which give context to their present situation. Series convenors: Professor Matthew Gibney, Professor Cathryn Costello, Professor Tom Scott-Smith Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2018
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