Asylum in the Margins of Contemporary Britain: The Spatial Practices of Desire in <i>Gypo</i>
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Abstract
This article examines Jan Dunn’s film Gypo in the context of a wider field of films referred to as home territory asylum films, which portray asylum seekers as figures of movement who transform the lives of those living in the economic and social margins of the British home territories. In these films, desire compels the characters to cross the boundaries separating asylum seekers and local residents, transforming the spaces of exclusion with their spatial practices. Unlike other home territory asylum films, in Gypo it is queer desire that draws the characters together. Like de Certeau’s tactics, queer desire in Gypo is fluid and operates within while eluding spaces of control, revealing how heteronormative desire reproduces spaces of exclusion that are articulated with global capital. The article ends with a discussion of how the film uses the Romantic imagery of Turner and Constable to situate the seemingly insignificant struggles of characters on the larger stage of globalization, creating an emotional landscape with disturbing forces that the article argues are difficult to decipher without an examination of the troubling realm of desire.
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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