The Discursive Violence of Postcolonial Asylum in the Irish Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4465306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nilmini Fernando (0000-0003-3364-4657, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 393-408 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postcolonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688790.2016.1317390 |
| OpenAlex | W2617359123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This paper situates postcolonial asylum as a dominant global encounter between the West and the Rest. Rather than a humanitarian gift, the paper argues that discursive violence of asylum regimes forces the materialization of identities, spaces and structural conditions that encamp and re-colonise asylum-seeking bodies. It first examines the global instrumentalization of images and bodies of Third World women in refugee representations to act as a humanitarian alibi that re-signifies the white saviour discourse. Moving to the Irish context where childbearing bodies of African women were targeted in a political campaign that ended birthright Citizenship for children of non-EU parents in 2004, it examines the performativity and affective entanglements of visual representations of ‘Third World Women’ and illustrates how NGO policies and projects force performances of black female bodies that exploit their representational and affective labour. Meanwhile, the material labour-of waiting- is appropriated from bodies detained in Direct Provision (a form of open asylum detention) by the asylum industry. The paper argues that postcolonial asylum is non-performative of the promise it makes, but a colonial continuity that serves a number of uses for white Western states and preserves a humanitarian face while detracting critical attention from the root causes of forced displacement from the South-necropolitics in the South
Aesthetics · Alibi · Art · Citizenship · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Irish · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Refugee · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |