society. The invocation of people into the category of refugee or Refugian does not do away with their (gendered, ethnic, national, religious, sexual) preferences and differences. While (in 2030) millions of refugees flee violent “identity conflicts
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Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime
Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett, and Helma Lutz
Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants
From Dubs to Doubt
Rachel Rosen and Sarah Crafter
control of national borders ( Gabrielatos and Baker 2008 ), with migrants representing a “drain” on fiscal systems ( Caviedes 2015 ). In these accounts, “the nation” is frequently presented in nostalgic and xenophobic terms, with migrants constituted as a
Giving Aid Inside the Home
Humanitarian House Visits, Performative Refugeehood, and Social Control of Syrians in Jordan
Ann-Christin Wagner
: 512 ). In Jordan, hospitality has become a major feature of post-independence national identity, to the extent that its commodified version figures prominently in the heritage industry ( Shryock 2004 ). But it also informs an increasingly restrictive
Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal
“Cultural Orientations” and “Contextual Protection”
Elizabeth Challinor
What is hospitality? The answer is not as straightforward as the phrase “Refugees Welcome” implies, displayed on banners across European cities by local populations asserting our common humanity in defiance of national boundaries in the wake of the
Sabina Barone, Veronika Bernard, Teresa S Büchsel, Leslie Fesenmyer, Bruce Whitehouse, Petra Molnar, Bonny Astor, and Olga R. Gulina
. Individualistic in orientation, the theory posited that immigrants and their children would shed their ethnic identities and become American. Nonetheless, earlier European immigrants maintained their communitarian traditions through American denominations. With
Re/Making Immigration Policy through Practice
How Social Workers Influence What It Means to Be a Refused Asylum Seeker
Kathryn Tomko Dennler
refused asylum seekers seeking social care provisions—services provided by local authorities in accordance with national legislation to protect the well-being of adults and children—in London to illustrate how social workers’ legal consciousness about