PART I: INTRODUCING THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: THE MANAGEMENT OF DISLOCATION A Dislocated Territorial Order? Introducing the Asylum 'Problem' Challenging Managerial Operations: Developing a Discursive Theory of Securitisation PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: POLITICAL, PUBLIC AND POPULAR NARRATIVES OF CONTROL Moving to Europe: Charting the Emergence of Exclusionary Asylum Discourse Restricting Contestations: Exclusionary Narratives and the Dominance of Restriction PART III: THE EXTENSION AND DIFFUSION OF THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: DETERRENT TECHNOLOGIES OF 'INTERNAL' AND 'EXTERNAL' CONTROL Interception as Criminalisation: The Extension of Interdictive Controls Dispersal as Abjectification: The Diffusion of Punitive Controls PART IV: CONTESTING THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM: FROM DETERRENCE TO ENGAGEMENT Sovereign Power, Abject Spaces and Resistance: Contending Accounts of Asylum Rethinking Asylum, Rethinking Citizenship: Moving Beyond Exclusionary Politics Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography