Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Spectacular images and imaginaries of migration fuel political and legal debate in the United Kingdom. The state responds to this spectacle through various modes of hypervisibility and invisibility in asylum law and policy. These concepts have previously accounted for the use of offshore asylum processing in other jurisdictions – the invisibilisation of hypervisible arrivals. This article however identifies hypervisibilisation and invisibilisation as shaping UK asylum law whereby, these concepts are deployed within the borders of the state in addition to externally as in other jurisdictions. The spectacle and specifically the spectacle of deterrence shapes and informs these processes.
Source: Law Culture and the Humanities
Author: Anne Neylon
Institution: University of Liverpool
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,650
OpenAlex ID: W4410061311