scholarly journals “It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, Place-Making and Civil Society Response to the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Wales, UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-105
Author(s):  
Taulant Guma ◽  
Michael Woods ◽  
Sophie Yarker ◽  
Jon Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Civil Society Networks ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This article examines the different ways in which local civil society has responded to refugees and asylum seekers in different parts of Wales in the wake of the recent “refugee crisis”. While the events of summer 2015 have generated a considerable amount of scholarly attention, including empirical accounts that look into local community responses to refugees and asylum seekers, the current research has tended to overlook the significance of place and the varied impact of “refugee crisis” across localities; this article aims to fill this gap in the existing research. It draws on findings from qualitative research carried out between 2017 and 2018 with refugee-supporting organisations based in three different locations in Wales. Taking a comparative look at these organisations, the article sheds light on the intensity and variation of civil society response in each of these localities, showing how this is informed by and closely interweaved with processes of place-making and place-framing, contributing to the reshaping of civil society networks and population profiles in these local areas. In conclusion, the article argues that humanitarian responses to “refugee crisis” can be understood not only as instances of hospitality and solidarity but also as practices of locality production.

scholarly journals Limited Resettlement and Ongoing Uncertainty: responses to and experiences of people seeking asylum in Australia and Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. i-iv
Author(s):  
Caroline Fleay ◽  
Lisa Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Civil Societies

In the wake of the Coalition Government’s narrow victory in the first Australian election since the adoption of policies known as Operation Sovereign Borders, this special edition of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies focuses its attention on the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers . It explores some of the experiences of people both in Australia and Indonesia who are seeking a life of safety, as well as the responses of civil society groups and governments, following the commencement of policies that have vastly reduced the opportunities for refugee resettlement in Australia.

Norwegian Asylum Policy and Response to the 2015 Refugee Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-406
Author(s):  
Sumbul Parveen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Asylum Policy

In recent years, Norway has emerged as an important destination of asylum for refugees. During the refugee crisis of 2015, Norway, with a total population of slightly above 5 million, received more than 31,000 applications for asylum. This was close to the total number of asylum seekers it had received in the last three years. This article discusses Norway’s history as an asylum destination as well as policies for the protection and integration of refugees. It focuses on how the refugee crisis of 2015 unfolded in Norway. The domestic political discourse and the response of civil society organizations are analysed. The article also looks at the changes introduced in the asylum policy and the role of the European Union in determining Norway’s response to the crisis.

Hypocritical Inhospitality: The Global Refugee Crisis in the Light of History

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Glanville
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Union Member ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Member States ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
European Union Member States

AbstractOne of the justifications offered by European imperial powers for the violent conquest, subjection, and, often, slaughter of indigenous peoples in past centuries was those peoples’ violation of a duty of hospitality. Today, many of these same powers—including European Union member states and former settler colonies such as the United States and Australia—take increasingly extreme measures to avoid granting hospitality to refugees and asylum seekers. Put plainly, whereas the powerful once demanded hospitality from the vulnerable, they now deny it to them. This essay examines this hypocritical inhospitality of former centers of empire and former settler colonies and concludes that, given that certain states accrued vast wealth and territory from the European colonial project, which they justified in part by appeals to a duty of hospitality, these states are bound now to extend hospitality to vulnerable outsiders not simply as a matter of charity, but as justice and restitution for grave historical wrongs.

scholarly journals Racializing Homophobia: Tracing Sexual Political Discourse within Europe’s “Refugee Crisis” in Berlin

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (Summer) ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Marlene Soulier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
German Nation ◽  
A Site ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Discourses relating to gender and sexualities have long been a tool for the perpetuation of racialized “othering” and have contributed to the strengthening of national identities and boundaries as they reproduce binary constructions of “us” and “them.” As the German nation-state reinvents itself as multicultural, tolerant, and sexually liberated, these discourses serve to mark the racialized body as a site of backwardness, sexism, and homophobia, and thus justify its segregation and exclusion exemplified in the restrictive practices of housing, mobility restrictions, and deportation of asylum seekers and migrants. This paper aims to trace the unfolding of discourses in and between some dominant organizational structures in Berlin that advocate for LGBT refugees and asylum seekers. It argues that the claim for citizenship of some formerly excluded sexual others is contingent on the promotion of a very specific notion of sexual identity and participation in the orientalisation/ethnicisation of homophobia.

Emerging Frameworks for Engaging Precarity and “Otherness” in Greek Contemporary Dance Performances

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Natalie Zervou
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
European Refugee Crisis ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Professional Dancers ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

At the dawn of the European refugee crisis, and in the middle of the ongoing sociopolitical and financial crisis in Greece, Greek choreographers started creating dance works that engaged immigrants and refugees. In most such initiatives, improvisation became the tool for bridging the disparity between the professional dancers and the “untrained” participants, who were often the vulnerable populations of refugees and asylum seekers. In this essay, I question the ethics and aesthetics of these methodological approaches utilized for staging encounters between natives and migrants through dance. In particular, I consider the significance of improvisation as potentially perpetuating hierarchical inequalities in the framework of Western concert dance, while I also highlight the ways that such artistic endeavors end up presenting immigrants and refugees as “Others.”

scholarly journals Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis: Individual and Cultural Stereotypes and Prejudices and Their Relationship With Behavior Toward Asylum Seekers

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hege H. Bye
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intergroup Behavior

In this paper, I investigate intergroup relations between natives and asylum seekers during the European refugee crisis, and contribute to the reemerging methodological debate on the measurement of stereotypes and prejudices as individual and collective constructs. Drawing on data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel (NCP; N = 1,062), I examined how Norwegians stereotyped asylum seekers at the height of the refugee crisis and the emotional prejudices asylum seekers as a group elicited. By experimentally manipulating the survey question format, I examined whether and how stereotypes and emotional prejudices toward asylum-seekers differed depending on their measurement as individual or collective constructs. A subset of respondents (n = 228) had reception centers for asylum-seekers established in their local community during the crisis. These participants reported their behaviors toward the asylum seekers in their neighborhood. In this subsample, I investigated how individual facilitating and harming intergroup behavior was related to individual and collective conceptualizations of stereotypes and prejudices. The results showed that both low warmth and low competence stereotypes, as well as negative emotions toward asylum seekers, were rated as stronger when measured as collective as compared to individual-level constructs. In the individual condition, respondents reported feeling more admiration and sympathy than respondents in the collective condition attributed to others. Individual stereotypes and prejudices correlated systematically with individual facilitating and harming intergroup behaviors. The perception that others hold more negative stereotypes of asylum seekers, and the perceived anger and fear of others, did correlated with individual harming behaviors. Perceptions of others’ anxiety correlated negatively with facilitating behaviors. Implications and future directions for the conceptualization and measurement of stereotypes and emotional prejudices are discussed.

What Are Refugees Represented to Be? A Frame Analysis of the Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016 Concerning the Treatment of Refugees “from Abroad”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract The Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016 concerning the Treatment of Refugees (PR) was a promising step to a better humanitarian response for refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Indonesia. It also provided a much-needed legal framework to validate refugees’ presence and to ground civil -society organizations’ advocacy on their behalf. However, a closer look at the PR and earlier drafts of the document shows serious compromises that: (1) reproduce the notion that refugees are only transiting in Indonesia; (2) frame refugees as passive objects, failing to recognize them as subjects with rights; and (3) prioritize security concerns that position refugees at odds with Indonesian society (masyarakat). Using the “What’s the Problem Represented to be” approach, this article highlights what is included and excluded from the PR and how it falls short of guaranteeing meaningful protection for refugees while living in Indonesia.

Republicanism on the borders: Jewish activism and the refugee crisis in Strasbourg and Nice

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
MEREDITH L. SCOTT-WEAVER
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Flexible Networks ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:This case-study of Jewish activism in Strasbourg and Nice, interwar urban locales situated along the frontiers with National Socialist Germany and fascist Italy, respectively, examines critical facets of Jewish advocacy during the refugee crisis of the 1930s. It focuses on how urban spaces engendered dense thickets of community activism unlike that which took place in Paris. Whereas friction and ineffectiveness characterized aid efforts in Paris, these cities offer alternative views on the nature of the refugee crisis in France and the ways that Jews overcame obstacles to help asylum-seekers. It advances much-needed discourse on the complexity of French Jewish experiences during the interwar years and highlights the city as both location and a conduit for diverse activist strategies. Although circumstances varied in Strasbourg and Nice, Jews in these two borderland cities followed similar patterns of engaging urban civil society to build flexible networks that addressed the plight of refugees from multiple angles.

The refugee crisis and fear

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gale
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Boat People ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Representations of asylum seekers, commonly referred to as ‘boat people’, became a central issue during the 2001 election campaign amidst claims that Australia was at risk of a flood of refugees. This article explores the intersection between populist politics and media discourse through analysis of media representations of refugees and asylum seekers.

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