Asylum, migration and community
- Author/Editor(s):
- Maggie O'Neill
- Format:
- Hardback
, 312 pages
, 234 x 156 mm
Other formats available - ISBN
- 9781847422231
- Published:
- 15 Sep 2010
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Like the asylum seekers and migrants she works with, Maggie O'Neill brings a rich cargo of ideas and images to the terrain she enters, from critical theory 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
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
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
Introduction
Globalisation, forced migration, humiliation and social justice
Asylum-migration-community nexus
Researching the asylum-migration-community nexus
Representing refugees and asylum seekers in the mainstream and alternative media: discourses of inclusion and exclusion
Diasporic communities: citizenship, social justice and belonging
Children, young people and unaccompanied young people
Women refugees and asylum seekers
Refused asylum seekers, destitution, poverty and social networks
Human dignity, humiliation and social justice: beyond borders - re-imagining the asylum-migration-community nexus.
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