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Theorizing Refugees, Borders, Il/legality: Nation-State-Exceptions

‘Refugees’, ‘asylum seekers’, ‘illegal migrants’, ‘exiles’, ‘nomads’, ‘aliens’…others.These are all ‘in-between’ figures, exceptions to a political order defined by citizenship, borders, sovereignty and nation states. In their very existence, these figures represent a challenge to this political order, as social and political theorists have long recognized.For example, Hannah Arendt deemed stateless people ‘the most symptomatic … Continue reading Theorizing Refugees, Borders, Il/legality: Nation-State-Exceptions