Asylum, Migration and Community

Asylum, migration and community......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 7
List of abbreviations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Copyright acknowledgements......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Asylum-migration nexus......Page 21
Legal context to the asylum-migration nexus......Page 23
Asylum-migration-community nexus......Page 28
Community......Page 29
Asylum and the ‘deviant other’......Page 33
Theory......Page 35
Methodology......Page 37
Performative praxis (purposeful knowledge)......Page 40
1. Globalisation, forced migration, humiliation and social justice......Page 46
Modernity and globalisation......Page 47
Negative globalisation......Page 53
Forced migration, exemption and refugee regimes......Page 55
Refugees: humiliation, human dignity and social justice......Page 68
Social justice: rights, recognition and community......Page 73
Social justice......Page 74
2. Asylum-migration-community nexus......Page 80
What do we understand by ‘community’?......Page 81
Community diaspora, cosmopolitanism and hybridity......Page 84
Community: togetherness, the established and the outsiders......Page 89
Imagined community of the nation......Page 92
Imagined community of governmental discourse/governance......Page 93
Community as being-together, being-in-common and being-with......Page 106
Forced migration, research and public scholarship......Page 110
Critical theory and researching the asylum migration-community nexus......Page 113
Renewed methodologies: ethno-mimesis......Page 115
Participatory action research......Page 119
What is the impact of participatory action research?......Page 122
Participatory action research and participatory arts......Page 123
Narrative, biographical methods......Page 125
Narrative and memory......Page 127
Ethno-mimesis and community/participatory arts......Page 128
4. Representing refugees and asylum seekers in the mainstream and alternative media: discourses of inclusion and exclusion......Page 140
Representations of ‘asylum’ in the mainstream media......Page 142
Making the Connections between arts, migration and diaspora: the role of the alternative media?......Page 150
Alternative media and diasporic voices: strategies for representation, participation and belonging......Page 152
Broadcasting and the role of the public sphere......Page 156
5. Diasporic communities:citizenship, social justice and belonging......Page 160
Wider social context to the research......Page 161
Global refugees: exile, displacement and belonging......Page 162
Making the Connections: Arts, Migration and Diaspora regional network......Page 163
Transnational communities: towards a sense of belonging......Page 167
A sense of belonging......Page 171
National context......Page 194
Hidden voices: migration and belonging......Page 205
Dreamers: land of dreams......Page 207
Leaving and arriving… and leaving…......Page 211
Research recommendations......Page 213
Hidden voices......Page 214
7. Women refugees and asylum seekers......Page 222
Women claiming asylum......Page 224
Research on women refugees and asylum seekers......Page 225
The migration-trafficking nexus......Page 227
Making women visible......Page 229
Research with refugee and asylum-seeking women......Page 231
A gender-sensitive asylum system?......Page 239
Making the Connections manifesto: ‘Women and migration: art, politics and policy’......Page 241
8. Refused asylum seekers, destitution, poverty and social networks......Page 250
European policy context......Page 254
Destitution in the UK......Page 255
Refusal and return......Page 260
Participatory action research and the HDHS network......Page 264
Diaspora, humiliation and belonging......Page 265
Importance of humiliation......Page 269
Radical democratic imaginary......Page 274
Beyond borders: making connections......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 282
Index\n......Page 304