Journal article
How a Body becomes a Boat: The Asylum Seeker in Law and Images
Law and Literature, Vol.30(1), pp.105-121
2018
Abstract
Asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to seek protection have been the catalyst for significant legal reform and the proliferation of political discourses. The paper analyses the metaphor of the boat as being a common trope in the legislative category of the "unauthorized maritime arrival" and in the government images that advertised this legal change. The figure of the boat effaces the asylum-seeker's body from the frame of law and discourse and constructs a myth about sovereignty and borders that enables coercive control over asylum seeker bodies.
Details
- Title
- How a Body becomes a Boat: The Asylum Seeker in Law and Images
- Authors
- Justine Poon (Author) - Australian National University
- Publication details
- Law and Literature, Vol.30(1), pp.105-121
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/1535685X.2017.1346960
- ISSN
- 1541-2601
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99542808802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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