ABSTRACT This paper explores inhuman/human constructions that feature in state responses to refugees. We move beyond straightforward normative claims that dehumanizing or demonizing refugees is unfair, unjust or bad to ask: what kind of inhuman monsters are refugees characterized as when they are ‘demonised’; and, what are the consequences of such a characterization? Our argument is that reading the demonised refugee as the contemporary zombie monster and inversely, reading the resurgence of the zombie monster through the prism of the so-called refugee and migrant crisis, reveals the precise anxieties brought about by refugees and asylum seekers. In particular, we claim that both figures represent the transgression of borders, as well as the failure of containment, borders and border walls as a response to crisis. We also argue that the contemporary zombie, as a race-less catchall monster figure, mirrors the erasure of colonial histories, race and race relations in the casting of refugees as dehistoricized, invading and disorderly bodies. We analyse these themes through the 2013 blockbuster film World War Z (dir. Marc Foster). In the film, the United Nations, US Navy, World Health Organisation, and Gerry Lane (a former UN employee) combine to fight a global zombie war.

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非人性化和妖魔化的难民，僵尸和第二次世界大战

摘要本文探讨了国家对难民的反应中的非人类/人类结构。我们超越了简单的规范性主张，即对难民进行非人性化或妖魔化是不公平，不公正或不易提出的问题：难民将其当成“妖魔化”特征是什么？而且，这种表征的后果是什么？我们的论点是，将妖魔化的难民解读为当代的僵尸怪物，相反，通过所谓的难民和移民危机的棱镜来解读僵尸怪物的复活，则揭示了难民和寻求庇护者所带来的确切焦虑。特别是，我们声称，这两个数字都代表了越界，以及对危机的遏制，边界和边界墙的破坏。我们还认为，当代的僵尸是一个无种族的通盘怪物，反映了在将难民铸造为非历史，入侵和无序的尸体时对殖民历史，种族和种族关系的消除。我们通过2013年的大片《第二次世界大战》（导演马克·福斯特）分析了这些主题。在影片中，联合国，美国海军，世界卫生组织和格里·莱恩（前联合国雇员）联合起来打一场全球僵尸战争。