Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World

Whittaker, David J.

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“…The findings from this exploratory study support a greater understanding of the systemic effects of displacement among C/MFTs but also resettlement processes (Weingarten, ). This is particularly important because misinformation is a prominent source of discrimination and prejudice among refugees (Whittaker, ). A foundational understanding may also prevent misattribution of complaints.…”

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A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Syrian Asylum‐Seekers and Refugees in the United States

Utržan

Wieling

2018

Family Process

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Violence in Syria has displaced an unprecedented number of people from their homes. While couple/family therapy (C/MFT) scholars have explored migration experiences, particularly among refugees, there is still limited research using a bioecological framework. This exploratory study examined the experiences of Syrian asylum‐seekers and refugees living in the United States using a qualitative phenomenological approach. Twelve Syrians (n = 8 men, n = 4 women) between 20 and 52 years of age (M = 35.8, SD = 10.7) were interviewed about their experiences across three stages of resettlement: (1) pre‐resettlement, (2) resettlement/migration, and (3) post‐resettlement. Findings suggest that the effects of conflict‐induced displacement and resettlement permeate across multiple ecologies. These range from the individual and his or her interpersonal relationships to their larger community and society. C/MFTs should account for contextual factors while becoming familiar with the sociopolitical impact of displacement and resettlement in their clinical work with this population.

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A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Syrian Asylum‐Seekers and Refugees in the United States

Utržan

Wieling

2018

Family Process

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“…Countries' obligations to refugees were similarly clear; to provide political refuge in the short term and the right to work and settle after that. Forty years later the picture had changed dramatically and by the early 1990s refugees were increasingly non-Europeans from poorer countries in the global south (Dummett, 2001;Marfleet, 2006;Pirouet, 2001;Schuster, 2003;Whittaker, 2006). Refugees were also present in much greater numbers and, while asylum claims to Western Europe averaged 13,000 in the 1970s, annual totals had risen to 690,000 by 1992 (Gibney, 2006: 145).…”

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Refugees, Theatre and Crisis

Jeffers

2012

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Performance Interventions is a series of monographs and essay collections on theatre, performance, and visual culture that share an underlying commitment to the radical and political potential of the arts in our contemporary moment, or give consideration to performance and to visual culture from the past deemed crucial to a social and political present. Performance Interventions moves transversally across artistic and ideological boundaries to publish work that promotes dialogue between practitioners and academics, and interactions between performance communities, educational institutions, and academic disciplines.

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“…But there is a parallel logic of informality at work in how these groups evade laws in Hong Kong and China. For overstayers and asylum seekers fleeing their countries for places that are safer and more conducive to making a living (see Bacon ; Marfleet ; Whittaker ), states and their laws are viewed as something alien. Recent ethnographies have vividly depicted how traders (MacGaffey and Bazenguissa‐Ganga ; Stoller ) and asylum seekers (Khosravi ) from the developing world evade the surveillance of states in the developed world, but these do not address the commonalities between these different groups, drawn together in a desire to evade the state, and the common strategies they follow to slip past the state.…”

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How to Evade States and Slip Past Borders: Lessons from Traders, Overstayers, and Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong and China

2014

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This paper analyzes how traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers in Hong Kong and south China experience and evade the state. It does this by utilizing two of AnanyaRoy's key ideas-the organizational logic of informality, and "unmapping" as an informalization of the state. It considers the organizational logic of informality by examining the individual strategies followed by traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers in their conduct of low-end globalization. These strategies include laying low beneath the notice of the state, using one's social networks and cultural capital in one's evaluation of uncertain information, and engaging in self-presentation that remains carefully concealed. The paper applies Roy's concept of unmapping to the governments of Hong Kong and China in their informalization of state control over immigration and police, rendering the enforcement of low-priority laws a matter of the individual discretion of state agents. However, even if the state does not usually act, it could act, making the lives and livelihoods of these immigrants particularly uncertain. This paper shows how Roy's ideas may be applied to a realm of analysis far from her original purview. [traders, overstayers, asylum seekers, low-end globalization,

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Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World

Cited by 22 publications

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A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Syrian Asylum‐Seekers and Refugees in the United States

A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Syrian Asylum‐Seekers and Refugees in the United States

Refugees, Theatre and Crisis

How to Evade States and Slip Past Borders: Lessons from Traders, Overstayers, and Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong and China

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