European Union Asylum Law, Extraterritoriality and the State of Exception

Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

Second Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Hicks, Barbara

Keywords

European Union, Refugees, Asylum Law, Agamben, Giorgio

Area of Concentration

International and Area Studies

Abstract

The overruled are those groups of people who find themselves outside of the community of democratic lawmaking, while still being exposed to the sovereign power of those laws. Using the theoretical framework of Giorgio Agamben this study argues that foremost among the overruled are refugees and asylum-seekers who find themselves as “bare life,” living in a state of exception without the rights of citizens. Extraterritorialization is found to be central to both asylum law and the immigration policy decisions taken by the EU.

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