| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 |
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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 Practices of Hospitality -- Hospitality as Resistance -- Conclusion: The 'Christmas Invasion'? -- A New Approach to Hospitality -- The Racialised Refugee Subject |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Services for -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Refugees -- Services for
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474447188 |
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147444718X |
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9781474447195 |
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1474447198 |
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