scholarly journals Epistemic communities: Extending the social justice outcomes of community music for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Sunderland ◽  
Phil Graham ◽  
Caroline Lenette
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Community Music ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

scholarly journals The Imagination of the Other in a (Post-)Sectarian Society: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Divided City of Belfast

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike M. Vieten ◽  
Fiona Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
Do So

This article explores the ways a salient sectarian community division in Northern Ireland frames the imagination of newcomers and the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. We examine the dominant ethno-national Christian communities and how their actions define the social-spatial landscape and challenges of manoeuvring everyday life in Northern Ireland as an ‘Other’. We argue all newcomers are impacted to some degree by sectarianism in Northern Ireland, adding a further complexified layer to the everyday and institutional racism so prevalent in different parts of the UK and elsewhere. First, we discuss the triangle of nation, gender and ethnicity in the context of Northern Ireland. We do so in order to problematise that in a society where two adversarial communities exist the ‘Other’ is positioned differently to other more cohesive national societies. This complication impacts how the Other is imagined as the persistence of binary communities shapes the way local civil society engages vulnerable newcomers, e.g. in the instance of our research, asylum seekers and refugees. This is followed by an examination of the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland. We do so by contextualising the historical situation of newcomers and the socio-spatial landscape of the city of Belfast. In tandem with this, we discuss the role of NGO’s and civil support organisations in Belfast and contrast these views with the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. This article is based on original empirical material from a study conducted in 2016 on the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees with living in Northern Ireland.

scholarly journals Sacred Welcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Benjamin Boudou ◽  
Hans Leaman ◽  
Maximilian Miguel Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Moral Reasons ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

This special section explores the role of religious ideas and religious associations in shaping the response of states and non-state actors to asylum-seekers and refugees. It brings together insights from anthropology, law, history, and political theory to enrich our understanding of how religious values and resources are mobilized to respond to refugees and to circumvent usual narratives of secularization. Examining these questions within multicultural African, European, and North American contexts, the special section argues that religion provides moral reasons and structural support to welcome and resettle refugees, and constitutes a framework of analysis to better understand the social, legal, and political dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in contexts of migration.

scholarly journals Mental health of African asylum-seekers and refugees in Hong Kong: using the social determinants of health framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Chi Wai Wong ◽  
Sealing Cheung ◽  
Heidi Yin Hai Miu ◽  
Julie Chen ◽  
Kelley Ann Loper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

Characteristics of migrants coming to Europe: A survey among asylum seekers and refugees in Germany about their journey

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 825-835
Author(s):  
Sebastian Paul
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eu Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Restrictive Policy

The year 2015 was significant in the history of the EU when millions of asylum seekers and refugees from the Middle East and Africa fled to Europe. Where some European countries accept immigrants from non-EU regions, others blame migrants for taking advantage of the social systems in Europe and followed restrictive policy measures. Thus, everyone speaks about migrants, but not with migrants. The article examines the characteristics of asylum seekers and refugees and their motives for coming to Europe. Over 100 interview-based surveys were conducted in this study. The findings of the paper show who these people are and from where they originated. Furthermore, there is evidence supporting the hypothesis that the majority of people flee because of severe danger (e.g., armed conflicts) and are not ‘economic migrants’ despite the claims of nationalistic governments in the EU.

Bologna, My Love: Il Cinema Ritrovato

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
Carla Marcantonio
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Francis Ford Coppola ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ongoing Project

FQ books editor Carla Marcantonio guides readers through the 33rd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival held each year in Bologna at the end of June. Highlights of this year's festival included a restoration of one of Vittorio De Sica's hard-to-find and hence lesser-known films, the social justice fairy tale, Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951). The film was presented by De Sica's daughter, Emi De Sica, and was an example of the ongoing project to restore De Sica's archive, which was given to the Cineteca de Bologna in 2016. Marcantonio also notes her unexpected responses to certain reviewings; Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019), presented by Francis Ford Coppola on the large-scale screen of Piazza Maggiore and accompanied by remastered Dolby Atmos sound, struck her as a tour-de-force while a restoration of David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) had lost some of its strange allure.

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