Refugees in Britain

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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.