Gillian McFadyen

Refugees in Britain (eBook, ePUB)

Practices of Hospitality and Labelling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An empirical examination of contemporary refugee practices in BritainInnovative theoretical framework , weaving for the first time together the theories of hospitality and labeling and applying them to the refugee regimeExpansion of the theoretical framework of hospitality, with development towards an understanding of externalized humanitarian hospitalityResearch underpinned by rich empirical material- 34 interviews and 30+years of archival research on government framing of the refugeeOffers three, empirically grounded, case studies on the British asylum system from the national, regional and grass-roots level.This book provides a multi-faceted way of assessing the British approach to refuge on local, state and regional levels, by intertwining the theories of hospitality and labelling before applying them to the study of refugees. This novel method of looking at the British refugee regime allows for deeper insights into the notions of power, identification, responsibility, language and externalisation of refugee politics.The book argues that the British refugee regime has developed towards an externalised humanitarian hospitality whereby the practice is geographically projected beyond the territorial confines of the state in order to both control and exclude the refugee. In tandem, the book also engages with counter-discourses by examining local practices of British hospitality and showing acts of solidarity that challenge the statist logic. The result is a theoretically informed account of the British approach to externalisation and geographical seclusion of refugees, particularly in response to the current Mediterranean Crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474447195
• Artikelnr.: 72413262

Autorenporträt

Dr Gillian McFadyen is Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her research focuses on International Politics, Postcolonial and Poststructural theory and Asylum. Her work was published in key journals, including the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Hospitality, Hostility, Hostipitality: The Ethical Question of Hospitality
The Conditionality of Hospitality
'Parasitical' Guests and Hostility
Externalising Hospitality: A geographical hierarchy of humanitarian hospitality
2. Labelling the Refugee 'Other' Theories of Labelling: Zetter, Becker and Foucault
The Politics of Labelling
Labelling, the Other and Resistance
The Power of the Labeller
3. The British Hostile Environment and the Creation of a Genuine Refugee: Constructing the Genuine Refugee
1. Travel Documentation
2. Correct Routes of Travel
3. A Well-Founded Fear
4. The Role of Welfare Benefits
5. A Minority Figure
The Hostile Environment
4. British Political Labelling of the Refugee during the Mediterranean Crisis: Britain, Labelling and the Mediterranean Crisis
The Significance of the Camps
Distant Suffering
5. Local Practices of Hospitality: Local Practices of Hospitality: Trigger Events
Undertaking Local Practices of Hospitality: Spaces of Hospitality
Internal Practices of Hospitality
Community Sponsorship
External Practice of Hospitality
Hospitality as Resistance
Conclusion
Bibliography.