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.
Aaron, M. ( 2004). New queer cinema: An introduction. In M. Aaron (Ed.), New queer cinema (pp. 3-14). Edinburgh , Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
2.
Agamben, G. ( 1996). Means without end. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
3.
Agamben, G. ( 1998). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
4.
Ahmed, S. ( 2004). The cultural politics of emotion. London, England: Routledge.
5.
Appadurai, A. ( 1997). Modernity at large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
6.
Appadurai, A. ( 2006). Fear of small numbers: An essay on the geography of numbers . Durham, NC: Duke University Press .
7.
Augé, M. ( 1995). Non-places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity . London, England: Verso.
8.
Bauman, Z. ( 2004). Wasted lives: Modernity and its outcasts. Oxford, England: Polity Press.
9.
Berlant, L., & Warner, M. ( 1998). Sex in public. Critical Inquiry, 24, 547-566.
10.
Brah, A. ( 1996), Cartographies of diaspora: Contesting identities. London, England: Routledge.
11.
Bryant, J. ( 1996). Turner: Painting the nation: English heritage properties as seen by JMW Turner. London, England: English Heritage.
12.
Burman, J. ( 2006). Co-motion in the diasporic city: Transformations in Toronto’s public culture. In C. Teelucksingh (Ed.), Claiming space: Racialization in Canadian cities (pp. 101-120). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
13.
Crawley, H. ( 2009). Understanding and changing public attitudes: A review of existing evidence from public information and communication campaigns. London, England: Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund in partnership with Paul Hamlyn Foundation, City Parochial Foundation, Barrow Cadbury Trust, and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
14.
de Certeau, M. ( 1988). The practice of everyday life. Berkley : University of California Press.
15.
Derrida, J., & Dufourmantelle, A. (2000). Of hospitality (R. Bowlby, Trans.). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. (Original work published 1997)
16.
Douglas, M. ( 2002). Purity and danger: An analysis of concept of pollution and taboo. London, England: Routledge .
17.
Dyer, R. ( 1990). Now you see it: Studies on lesbian and gay film. London, England: Routledge.
18.
Gibbons, F. ( 2001, March 9). Meet me in Margate. The Guardian . Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/mar/09/culture.features
19.
Gilman, S.L. ( 1985). Black bodies, white bodies: Toward an iconography of female sexuality in late nineteenth century art, medicine and literature. In H. L. Gates Jr. (Ed.), " Race," writing, and difference (pp. 223-261). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
20.
Gilroy, P. ( 1987). There ain’t no Black in the union jack. London, England: Hutchinson.
21.
Gilroy, P. ( 1993). Small acts: Thoughts on the politics of Black cultures . London, England: Serpent’s Tail.
22.
Good, A. ( 2007). Anthropology and expertise in the asylum courts. London, England: Routledge-Cavendish.
23.
Griffiths, R. ( 2006). Introduction: Queer Britannia: A century of sinema. In R. Griffiths (Ed.), British queer cinema (pp. 1-19). London, England: Routledge.
24.
Grillo, R. ( 2005). "Saltdean can’t cope": Protests against asylum-seekers in an English seaside suburb. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28, 235-260.
25.
Gurnah, A. ( 2006, September 25). Beside the Seaside. New Statesman. Retrieved from http://www.newstatesman.com/200609250043
26.
Hayter, T. ( 2004). Open borders: The case against immigration controls. London, England: Pluto Press.
27.
Helsinger, E.K. ( 1997a). Land and national representation in Britain. In M. Rosenthal, C. Payne, & S. Wilcox (Eds.), Prospects for the nation: Recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880 (pp. 13-35). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
28.
Helsinger, E.K. ( 1997b). Rural scenes and national representation: Britain, 1815-1850 . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
29.
Higson, A. ( 2006). The limiting imagination of national cinema. In E. Ezra & T. Rowden (Eds.), Transnational cinema: The film reader (pp. 15-25). London, England: Routledge.
30.
Howkins, A. ( 1997). Land, locality, people, landscape: The nineteenth-century countryside. In M. Rosenthal, C. Payne, & S. Wilcox (Eds.), Prospects for the nation: Recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880 (pp. 97-114). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
31.
Hunt, A. (IN PRESS). The civilizing process and emotional life: The Intensification and hollowing out of contemporary emotions. In A. Hunt, D. Spencer & K. Walby (Eds.), Emotions matter. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
32.
Hyndman, J., & Walton-Roberts, M. (2000). Interrogating borders: a transnational approach to refugee research in Vancouver. Canadian Geographer, 44, 244-258.
33.
Jennings, R. ( 2006). Beautiful thing: British queer cinema, positive unoriginality and the everyday. In R. Griffiths (Ed.), British queer cinema (pp. 183-195). London, England: Routledge.
34.
Leung, H. ( 2008). Undercurrents: Queer culture and postcolonial Hong Kong . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
35.
Marks, L. ( 2000). The skin of the film: Intercultural cinema, embodiment, and the senses. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
36.
Massey, D. ( 1993). Power-geometry and a progressive sense of place. In J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson, & L. Tickner (Eds.), Mapping the futures: Local cultures, global change (pp. 59-69). London, England: Routledge.
37.
McAllister, K. ( 2008). Human cargo: Global connections in the living rooms of the Canadian nation. In Z. Druick & A. Kotsopoulos (Eds.), Between reality and fiction on Canadian television (pp. 311-332). Waterloo, Ontario , Canada: University of Wilfred Laurier Press.
38.
Memmi, A. ( 1965). The colonizer and the colonized. New York, NY: Orion Press.
39.
Morley, D. ( 2000). Home territories: Media, mobility and identity. London, England: Routledge.
40.
Moor, A. ( 2006). Beyond the pale: The politics of Neil Jordan. In R. Griffiths (Ed.), British queer cinema (pp. 157-169). London, England: Routledge.
41.
Mullen, S. ( 2009). It wisne us: The truth about Glasgow and slavery. Glasgow, Scotland: Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
42.
Muñoz, J. ( 2007). The autoethnographic performance: Reading Richard Fung’s queer hybridity. In J. Stacey & S. Street (Eds.), Queer screen: A screen reader (pp. 163-180). London, England: Routledge.
43.
Naficy, H. ( 2001). An accented cinema: Exilic and diasporic filmmaking. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
44.
Nyers, P. ( 2005). Rethinking refugees: Beyond states of emergency. London, England: Routledge.
45.
Paulson, R. ( 1982). Literary landscape: Turner and Constable. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
46.
Pirouet, L. ( 2001). Whatever happened to asylum in Britain: A tale of two walls. Oxford, England: Berghahn Book.
47.
Pratt, A. ( 2005). Securing borders: Detention and deportation in Canada . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
48.
Rayner, J. ( 2000, July). Race victims await their fate. The Observer. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/jul/02/foodanddrink.expertopinions
49.
Roberts, L. ( 2002). "Welcome to Dreamland": From place to non-place and back again in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort. New Cinemas , 1(2), 78-90.
50.
Said, E. ( 1979). Orientalism. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
51.
Shields, R. ( 1991). Places on the margin: Alternative geographies of modernity . London, England: Routledge.
52.
Sinclair, I. ( 2001, March). The cruel seaside. Sight & Sound, 11, 16-18.
53.
Sorensen, N.N. ( 1998). Narrating identities across Dominican worlds. In M. P. Smith & L. E. Guarnizo (Eds.), Transnationalism from below (pp. 241-269). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
54.
Stacey, J., & Street, S. ( 2007). Introduction: Queering screen. In J. Stacey & S. Street (Eds.), Queer screen: A screen reader (pp.1-18). London, England: Routledge.
55.
Stoler, A.L. ( 1996). Race the education of desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
56.
Urry, J. ( 1990). The tourist gaze: Leisure and travel in contemporary societies. London, England: SAGE .
57.
Walters, W. ( 2008). Acts of demonstration: Mapping the territory of (non-) citizenship. In E. F. Isin & G. M. Nielson (Eds.), Acts of citizenship (pp. 182-206). London, England: Zed Books.
