A Heterotopian Analysis of Maritime Refugee Incidents

Author: Budz, Michele

Source: International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 18-35(18)

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Abstract:

Given the persistent significance of states in the determination of legal identities of people on the move, a consideration of the construction of people as legal (or illegal) migrants, refugees, or asylum-seekers must also recognize that these determinations take place in conjunction with the simultaneous processes through which spaces such as sovereign states or ships carrying asylum-seekers are constructed. A heterotopian analysis of the Tampa and the SIEVX of 2001 allows for a consideration of the ways in which notions of sovereignty, territory and governmentality work to stabilize ambiguous situations produced by the conflictual discourses of human rights and state power.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00061.x

Affiliations: 1: University of California

Publication date: 2009-03-01