Book Launch: The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum & Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship

'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum is an important addition to critical literature on the politics of refuge in Europe. Squire's assured dissection of the discourses and practices through which the problematic figure of the asylum seeker is produced underpins a fascinating mediation on securitization, sovereign power and territoriality in the contemporary European political order.'

- David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK -

'Umut Erel significantly contributes to our understanding of issues relating to citizenship, racism, nationalism and their intersecting gender and class dimensions. (...) Erel develops a normative perspective in which migrant women are not constructed as potential danger to 'social cohesion' of the citizen body but rather as helping to transform citizenship to become more inclusive as well as more vital.'

- Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK -