scholarly journals Temporary Text(iles)

2020 ◽  
pp. 313-322
Author(s):  
Thao Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Forced Migrations ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

Text and textiles share etymological roots and also have cultural and historical similarities. Temporary Text(iles) is project led research which investigates the relationship between text and textiles in hopes of harnessing its communicative powers. Techniques such as subtraction cutting, embroidery and writing are utilised to produce textile installations that are both performative and ephemeral. These spatial interventions are activated within contemporary art contexts and public spaces such as Altona beach, Campbell Arcade, Testing Grounds and Assembly Point. These experimental sites offer a gentle disruption to people’s everyday routine as well as a space for critical reflection and conversation. In this chaotic time of global grief and tension, the author commits herself to understand the connections between environmental sustainability, forced migrations and the mistreatment against marginalized communities such as refugees and asylum seekers. Temporary Text(iles) describes the different spatial interventions in the research project and analyses its effect in relation to these major social issues.

scholarly journals The Asylum Hump: Why Country Income Level Predicts New Asylum Seekers, But Not New Refugees

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Ruhe ◽  
Charles Martin-Shields ◽  
Lisa Maria Groß
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Statistical Finding ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Refugee response has become an important topic in economic-development policy, but the majority of macro-level analyses do not find an association between country income level and refugee numbers. We argue that the apparent lack of association stems from using the United Nations High Commission for Refugees’ count of refugees as the dependent variable in these analyses. Refugee counts reflect processes that take place in countries of arrival. In contrast, the decision to seek asylum may be more closely linked to conditions, including income, in countries of origin. Drawing on the ‘migration-hump’ concept from economic migration, we model counts of refugees and asylum seekers from conflict-affected countries for the same time period and find that differences in the level of gross domestic product (GDP) predict new asylum applications but not new refugee numbers. We outline reasons for this statistical finding, and discuss theoretical and practical consequences for our understanding of the relationship between country income and asylum-seeking.

scholarly journals Biopolitics, borders, and refugee camps: exercising sovereign power over nonmembers of the state†

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Zeveleva
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
Treat All ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between the concepts of national identity and biopolitics by examining a border-transit camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers in Germany. Current studies of detention spaces for migrants have drawn heavily on Agamben's reflection on the “camp” and “homo sacer,” where the camp is analyzed as a space in a permanent state of exception, in which the government exercises sovereign power over the refugee as the ultimate biopolitical subject. But what groups of people can end up at a camp, and does the government treat all groups in the same way? This article examines the German camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers as a space where the state's borders are demarcated and controlled through practices of bureaucratic and narrative differentiation among various groups of people. The author uses the concept of detention space to draw a theoretical link between national identity and biopolitics, and demonstrates how the sovereign's practices of control and differentiation at the camp construct German national identity through defining “nonmembers” of the state. The study draws on ethnographic fieldwork at the Friedland border transit camp and on a discourse analysis of texts produced at the camp or for the camp.

scholarly journals LAWYER COMPETENCIES FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE: TWO EMPIRICAL STUDIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-208
Author(s):  
Sarah Marsden ◽  
Sarah Buhler
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
The Relationship

The definition and framing of legal competencies affects how lawyers learn and enact their roles and forms a necessary site of engagement in evaluating the relationship between law and justice.      Drawing on two community-based studies with members of marginalized communities and lawyers and advocates who work with those communities, we outline the need for a transformation of the idea of legal competencies to emphasize relationality, critical reflection, and deep attention to context.  We argue that such a change is a necessary precursor to meaningful engagement with access to justice by the legal profession.

Fabricar a memória da violência: imagens do massacre de eldorado dos carajás na arte contemporânea

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Gil Vieira da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Complex Mediums ◽  
The Relationship

ResumoEste ensaio pretende investigar as relações entre arte, violência e políticas da memória, por meio da comparação entre obras de arte produzidas a partir do Massacre de Eldorado dos Carajás. Estuda-se a relação entre a criação artística e a produção de imagens memorialistas, analisando de que maneiras a arte contemporânea tem atuado no campo das políticas da memória, constituindo meios complexos às imagens de acontecimentos históricos, assim como meios de reflexão crítica sobre a própria fabricação de tais imagens.AbstractThis essay intends to investigate the relations between art, violence and politics of memory, by comparing artworks produced about the Eldorado dos Carajás Massacre. The relationship between artistic creation and the production of memorialist images is studied, analyzing in what ways contemporary art has acted in the field of politics of memory, constituting complex mediums to the images of historical events, as well as mediums of critical reflection on very fabrication of these images.

Introduction: Queer migration, asylum, and displacement

Sexualities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 911-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A Lewis ◽  
Nancy A Naples
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Critical Conversation ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue of Sexualities emerges in response to the growing visibility of LGBTQI immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers within global gay rights advocacy. Despite the increasing prominence of LGBTQI issues on the international human rights agenda, there has been relatively little discussion of the relationship between queer migration and LGBTQI human rights activism in the field of sexuality studies. This special issue seeks to bring queer migration and sexual citizenship studies into critical conversation with current literature in the area of gender, sexuality and human rights.

Recognizing voice and redistributing power: Community theatre with refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Keziah Berelson ◽  
Tamsin Cook
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Community Theatre ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract This article analyses the experience of creating Women of Power (2018) with a diverse group of refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds. Using the normative framework of a dialogic continuum of micro and macro dramaturgies to guide the analysis, the risks and tensions present in several forms of theatre facilitation are considered. The article examines the complexities of critical reflection and language in relation to creating theatre and draws on Nancy Fraser's analysis of social injustice to consider the position of the facilitator when working with migrant populations. The article contends that an effective way to create an engaging aesthetic and to work as 'redistributors' of privilege may be to offer sustainable, dramatic and pragmatic structures for participants to add their voices to.

Forced Migration, Refugees, and Asylum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine El-Enany ◽  
Eiko R. Thielemann
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Burden Sharing ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Forced Migrations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Persecution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

Forced migrations, as well as the related issues of refugees and asylum, profoundly impact the relationship between the countries of origin and the countries of destination. Traditionally, the essential quality of a refugee was seen to be their presence outside of their own country as a result of political persecution. However, the historical evolution of the definition of a refugee has gradually become more restricted and defined. Commentators have challenged the current refugee protection regime along two principal lines. The first is idealist in nature and entails the argument that the refugee definition as contained in the 1951 Refugee Convention is not sufficiently broad and thus fails to protect all those individuals deserving of protection. The second line of argument is a realist one, taking a more pragmatic approach in addressing the insufficiencies of the Convention. Its advocates emphasize the importance of making refugee protection requirements more palatable to states, the actors upon which we rely to provide refugees with protection. With regard to the question of how to design more effective burden-sharing institutions, the literature has traditionally focused on finding ways to equalize refugee responsibilities directly by seeking to equalize the number of asylum seekers and refugees that states have to deal with.

scholarly journals Expansion of Self-Boundaries Foster Humans’ Ecological Behaviors: Relationship Between Self-Transcendence and Connectedness to Nature

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
M. Satheesh Varma ◽  
K. Sreenath
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Self ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Relationship

Environmental sustainability is one of the major social issues discussed in the current scenario. Connectedness to nature is the key factor fosters humans’ ecological behaviors. Self-transcendence is the expansion of the self-boundaries through connectedness with the self, individual, environment and transcendent beings. The current study examines the relationship between self-transcendence and connectedness to nature. We hypothesized that self-transcendence significantly predicts connectedness to nature feelings of participants. To verify this hypothesis we conducted a survey among 102 participants in the age group 20 to 58 from the southern states of India. Selected tools were administered to the participants and obtained data was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and linear regression. The results showed that self-transcendence significantly predicted the participants’ feelings of connectedness to nature.

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