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