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Lifeboat politics in the Pacific: Affect and the ripples and shimmers of a migrant saturated future
University of New South Wales, School of Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0225-5093
2015 (English)In: Emotion, Space and Society, ISSN 1755-4586, E-ISSN 1878-0040, Vol. 16, p. 99-107Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Affect is explored in relation to the governance of irregular migrants and asylum seekers that turn such vulnerable individuals into a feared category. How are emotions as practices developed, fostered and enacted? The examples developed in the article focus on illegal maritime arrivals (asylum seekers arriving by boat) and the emotionally charged response to them in Australia. The article argues that the state, far from embodying a detached and neutral arbiter utilising various steering mechanisms of care and due process, instead governs through fear and anxiety generated in relation to outsiders. The state draws on, and indeed creates, dispositions and feelings, generating a distinct politics of affect. The motif of the lifeboat is an example of a diversion from the anxieties and fears in everyday life; a metaphor for scarcity and a battle for survival. The asylum seeker as illegal maritime arrival (boat person) is the exemplar of such a lifeboat politics in the Australian case. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD , 2015. Vol. 16, p. 99-107
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Affect; Asylum seekers; Australian state; Emotions; Irregular migration; Lifeboat politics
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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-181618DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2015.04.002ISI: 000361863600016OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-181618DiVA, id: diva2:1616879
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