Source:
Cultural Studies, Volume 18, Number 4, p.523 (2004)
ISBN:
0950-2386
Accession Number:
13971835
Abstract:
Drawing on official acts of Western multicultural democracies - predominantly the UK Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002) and its accompanying documents and actions - this article investigates, via an engagement with Judith Butler, the constitution of 'the biopolitics of immigration'. It also argues that the biopolitics of immigration both presupposes - in the form of an injunction - and produces a certain ethics: what the author calls, drawing on Butler's work, 'an ethics of bodies that matter'. This 'ethics of bodies that matter' will be seen as a source of political hope; it will guarantee the possibility of enacting differently the political acts that regulate the issues of asylum, immigration and nationality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Notes:
Vol. 18 Issue 4, p523-537 15p
