Asylum Seekers, Sovereignty, and the Senses of , Puumala..

Taylor & Francis

Asylum Seekers, Sovereignty, and the Senses of the InternationalA Politico-corporeal Struggle\nAuthor(s): Eeva Puumala\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138944886, 978-1138944886\nSynopsis\nThe confrontation between asylum seeking and sovereignty has mainly focused on ways in which the movement and possibilities of refugees and migrants are limited. In this volume, instead of departing from the practices of governance and surveillance, Puumala begins with the moving body, its engagements and relations and examines different ways of seeing and sensing the struggle between asylum seekers and sovereign practices. \n\nPuumala asserts that our political imagination is being challenged in its ways of ordering, practicing and thinking about the international and those relations we call international. The issues relating to asylum seekers are one example of the deficiencies in the spatiotemporal logic upon which these rel.