Psychoanalysis, Identity and Asylum.

This paper examines through a psycho-social perspective constructions of whiteness in contemporary Britain. In particular with reference to the Other of our imagination and the changing nature of what we term asylum in the UK. It is a tentative theoretical discussion of the subject of a 3-year ESRC-funded research project and outlines some of the key questions and research methods before offering some theoretical ideas about difference, home and belonging.Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2005) 10, 197–206. doi:10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100048 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]