Becoming bare life: Asylum, hospitality, and the politics of encampment

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 649-665

  Darling, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; ETHICS; LOGISTICS; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; POLITICAL REPRESSION; STATE ROLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350402337     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d10307     Document Type: Article

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