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New state-theoretic approaches to asylum and refugee geographies.

This paper examines recent innovations in the way the concept of the state is employed by geographers researching forced migrants’ and refugees’ experiences. A still-dominant body of thought tends to essentialize the state and foreground both its institutional forms and coercive powers by asking questions that take the primacy of these attributes for granted. In … Continue reading New state-theoretic approaches to asylum and refugee geographies.