Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law

Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a Professor at the University of Helsinki. She specialises in topics of othering and exclusion particularly in the area of human rights, and is the author of Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice (2016).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: LAW AND THE ETHICS OF LOOKINGChapter 1: The migrant in our gazeChapter 2: Looking, feeling, and judging the lawPART II: FIGURES OF THE MIGRANTChapter 3: The figures of a ‘genuine’ refugee and a ‘bogus’ asylum seeker.Chapter 4: The spectre of the invisible illegal.Chapter 5: The figure of the absolute otherChapter 6: The migrant as an inhuman massChapter 7PART III: THE COMPLICITY OF THE PICTUREChapter 8: The challenge of navigating the ethics of law in the pictorial eraConclusionsBibliography

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