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Another Letter from the Home Office: Reading the Material Politics of Asylum (2014)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2014). Another Letter from the Home Office: Reading the Material Politics of Asylum. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(3), 484-500. https://doi.org/10.1068/d13067p

In an era of technologically mediated modes of border enforcement, this paper focuses upon a seemingly more anachronistic mode of governmental intervention: That of the letter. Exploring the use of letters by the UK Border Agency to communicate decis... Read More about Another Letter from the Home Office: Reading the Material Politics of Asylum.

Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship (2013)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2014). Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46(1), 72-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12026

This paper explores the ways in which practices of asylum governance serve to depoliticise those seeking asylum in the UK. In critiquing claims over the “post‐political” nature of contemporary governance, the paper proposes a focus upon situated prac... Read More about Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship.

Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique (2013)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2013). Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique. Environment and Planning A, 45(8), 1785-1801. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45441

The city of Sheffield was the UK's first ‘City of Sanctuary’, an identification which suggested that the city would act to welcome asylum seekers and refugees through promoting a ‘culture of hospitality’. In this paper I seek to interrogate such clai... Read More about Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique.

‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? challenging myths about race and migration by N. Finney and L. Simpson. Policy Press, Bristol, 2009. No. of pages: x + 218, ISBN 978 1 84742 007 7 (paperback), 978 1 84742 008 4 (hardback) (2009)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2009). ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? challenging myths about race and migration by N. Finney and L. Simpson. Policy Press, Bristol, 2009. No. of pages: x + 218, ISBN 978 1 84742 007 7 (paperback), 978 1 84742 008 4 (hardback). Population, Space and Place, 15(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.571

Becoming Bare Life: Asylum, Hospitality, and the Politics of Encampment (2009)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2009). Becoming Bare Life: Asylum, Hospitality, and the Politics of Encampment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(4), 649-665. https://doi.org/10.1068/d10307

This paper examines the politics of contemporary encampment within the UK with reference to the positioning of asylum seekers as a group subjected to a biopolitical logic of ‘compassionate repression’. The paper opens by examining the utility of pres... Read More about Becoming Bare Life: Asylum, Hospitality, and the Politics of Encampment.