Topographies of Exclusion: Refugees, Windrush, and the Politics of Space in Recent British Film

Through an analysis of recent film and moving image work documenting the Hostile Environment, this essay challenges distinction often drawn between postcolonial migrants refugees, arguing that Britain's punitive immigration asylum policy broadens what it means to be made stateless. With particular reference Windrush docudrama Sitting in Limbo (2020) Remi Weekes' horror His House (2020), explores how a series documentaries, docudramas fiction films have successfully spatialised hostile environment; is, they exposed topography exclusion containment determines migrant subjectivities contemporary Britain. By setting Scandal larger context representation, aim is expose continuities groups their historical relationship nation state. The representational politics space offers keen insight into these entangled histories.