Asylum, migration and community
- Author/Editor(s):
- Maggie O'Neill
- Format:
- Paperback, 312 pages, 234 x 156 mm
- ISBN
- 9781847422224
- Published:
- 17 Sep 2010
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"This thoughtful and broad-ranging book will appeal to students, researchers and academics at all levels as well as those working on the ground with asylumseekers and refugees."
--Crime Media Culture journal
"Maggie O'Neill's book is an essential and superb contribution to refugee and migration studies. It is indispensable reading for those who wish to create global and local communities without humiliation."
Evelin G. Lindner, MD, PhDs, Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
"Like the asylum seekers and migrants she studies, Maggie O'Neill brings a rich cargo of ideas and images to the terrain she enters, from psychoanalysis and Marxism, to creative and innovative participatory methods. Her book should engage scholars across a wide range of disciplines."
Janice Haaken, Professor of Psychology, Portland State University
About This Book
Issues of asylum, migration, humanitarian protection and integration/belonging are of growing interest beyond the disciplines of refugee studies, migration, and social policy. Rooted in more than two decades of scholarship, this book uses critical social theory and the participatory, biographical and arts-based methods used with asylum seekers, refugees and emerging communities to explore the dynamics of the asylum-migration-community nexus. It argues that interdisciplinary analysis is required to deal with the complexity of the issues involved and offers understanding as praxis (purposeful knowledge), drawing on innovative research that is participatory, arts-based, performative and policy-relevant.
Author Biography
Maggie O'Neill is Reader in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. She has extensive research experience in the field of forced migration using ethnographic, visual and participatory methodologies. Her previous publications include Adorno, culture and feminism (1999), Prostitution and feminism (2001) and Prostitution: Sex work, policy and politics co-authored with Teela Sanders and Jane Pitcher (2009). Maggie was co-editor of Sociology from 1999-2002 and has recently co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Visual Studies.Contents
Part one: Globalisation and the asylum-migration-community nexus: Introduction: the asylum-migration-community nexus
Globalisation, humiliation, transnational communities and social justice
Human rights and the law
Part two: Contemporary Theoretical and Methodological approaches: Researching the asylum-migration-community nexus
Re-presenting refugees and asylum seekers in the British media
Diasporic communities and the impact of dispersal: participatory action research and participatory arts
Unaccompanied children and young people
Women Refugees: a safe haven?
Part three: Performative Praxis: Social Policy and the asylum-migration-community nexus: Fortress Europe? Borders, containment and emerging communities
Refused asylum seekers, destitution, poverty and the role of social networks
The Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HDHS) global network and the search for social justice
Conclusion: asylum, migration and communities - what next?
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