PAT NOXOLO is Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests surround the nexus between security, identity and postcoloniality.JEF HUYSMANS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Open University, UK. His research centres on the political significance of security practice in Western societies, the securitization of immigration, asylum and refugees, and the politics of fear and exception.