Becoming, Doing and Letting Go: (Extra)Ordinary Citizens’ Engagement with Resettled Syrian Refugee Families in Rural France

Schiff, Claire; Clavé-Mercier, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92741-1_6

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“…As outlined by Piper (2017), these include supportive local government and nongovernmental organisations; local 'champions' of resettlement and 'sympathetic local media'; and established volunteering networks, especially in regards to support for diversity and social justice in the community (p. 12). The gradual resettlement of families and individuals over some years also echoes findings from the international literature regarding factors which may lead to more successful outcomes for regional resettlement (Gilhooly & Lee 2017;Schiff & Clavé-Mercier 2019).…”

Section: Welcoming Communities: Boundaries Of Belonging and Localismmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…The reasons for this shift include desires to improve resettlement experiences and outcomes, geographically disperse minorities, reduce urban population pressures and revitalise declining regional communities. These objectives are not always achieved and may at times be mutually incompatible (Gilhooly & Lee 2017;Bose 2018;Schiff & Clavé-Mercier 2019;McDonald-Wilmsen et al 2009;Glorius 2017). In Australia, the 'regional resettlement' approach has been heavily promoted by successive governments (see McDonald-Wilmsen et al 2009), and is likely to be become one of the dominant ways that future refugee resettlement takes place (Grattan 2019).…”

Section: Regional Resettlement Of Refugees In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘I’m a Local…’

2019

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This article discusses the impact and implications of ‘I’m a Local…’, an initiative developed in partnership between a regional university, a refugee resettlement community organisation and former refugees from African nations in a regional Australian community. The initiative sought to improve understandings about refugees, acknowledge their contributions to Australian society and support local, inclusive cultures. It included the development of public resources exploring the process of former refugees in establishing a sense of belonging and becoming ‘locals’. Racialised ‘Others’ continue to be excluded from ‘belonging’ within Australian communities at a wide range of practical and symbolic levels, so it remains an ongoing challenge to broaden the experience of belonging, challenge the borders erected around ‘local’ identities, and work to transform Australia’s post-colonial paradigm. ‘I’m a Local…’ provides an instructive example of how change agents from different sectors working collaboratively can dismantle prevailing discourses and affirm more inclusive and hopeful futures.

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Section: Welcoming Communities: Boundaries Of Belonging and Localismmentioning

confidence: 66%

Section: Regional Resettlement Of Refugees In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

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“…Casati (2017) in a Sicilian reception centre shows how disciplining and indifference may prevail on the part of social workers, partly built upon a moralising contrast between own past migration and their clients’. Focusing on a refugee integration programme in France, Schiff and Clavé-Mercier (2019) have shown how empathy as well as disciplinary regards may be born out of migrant identities of employees and volunteers of the programme.…”

Section: Refugees and Migrants In Institutions Responsible For Refugementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, the perception of similarities and sameness as migrants, layered upon such institutional expectations of producing deserving recipients may also become a disciplinary tool, as described in Schiff and Clavé-Mercier (2019). An experience of struggles and hardship may be channelled into an educating disposition that aims to shape and form the other into an actor of a specific type: one who performs according to the expectations of the reception system.…”

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“…Previous research, however, has shown how social support institutions may also incubate images of the undeserving, morally and culturally inferior Other, and thus may even become major sites of the production of non-responsibility (Pries, 2018) and rejection (Casati, 2017; Vrăbiescu and Kalir, 2018). Moreover, earlier research has also pointed out how narratives and identities of previous generations of migrants may interfere with dealing with refugee and asylum-seeker clients and students in various European contexts (Casati, 2017; Schiff and Clavé-Mercier, 2019).…”

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‘We Are That In-Between Nation’: Discourses of Deservingness of Hungarian Migrants Working in Institutions of Refugee Accommodation in Germany

Zakariás

Feischmidt

2020

Sociology

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The article elaborates on the role of deservingness discourses in regulating membership of non-citizen groups in Germany. Specifically, it focuses on Hungarians working or volunteering in institutions of refugee accommodation in Germany. It asks how personal migration experience and migrant statuses and identities of Hungarian workers are mobilised when recreating discourses of refugee-deservingness. Performance expectations on refugees related to education and employment evoked references to similarities of migration experience, strengthening an empathetic perspective towards refugee clients and students. Deservingness frameworks related to culture were more ambiguous. A ‘mission civilisatrice’, that is educating Muslim Others to European, non-Muslim ways of behaving and thinking, often tied to gender relations, was paralleled by a continuous attempt to challenge and dismantle such discourses of difference and disciplining. These ambivalences of empathetic identification and disciplinary racialisation draw the contours of a characteristic place of (Hungarian) migrant workers in the governance of refugee accommodation in Germany.

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Participation of Refugee Youth in Germany’s VET System: Real-world Labs as Opportunities for Co-constructive Knowledge Production and Innovative Practice Transformation

Korntheuer¹,

Thomas²

2022

Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021

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Germany has become the most important destination country for young refugees in Europe (Destatis, 2021). Vocational education and training can make an important contribution to overcome educational barriers and gain participation in society (Will & Hohmut, 2020). Since 2015, rural regions have faced new challenges in establishing effective support systems for young apprentices with forced migration experience (Ohliger et al., 2017). The participatory LaeneAs research project seeks to identify educational barriers and to promote successful educational pathways for young refugees in vocational training. In four distinct rural areas in Germany, stakeholders in formal, non-formal, and informal learning environments and young refugees will be brought together in real-world laboratories. The authors aim to open space for a co-constructive knowledge production process between scientific and political stakeholders, educational practitioners, and refugee youth. Real-world laboratories are a socio-spatial methodology that combines research and a sustainable capacity building process. The lifeworld expertise will be used for a contextual condition analysis of structural, societal, and individual barriers to education as well as 26 ANNETTE KORNTHEUER AND STEFAN THOMAS for practice transfer. Building on the discussion of the current state of research and the identification of significant gaps in the practice and research landscape, this essay will focus on the critical discussion of the methodological implementation of the study.

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Becoming, Doing and Letting Go: (Extra)Ordinary Citizens’ Engagement with Resettled Syrian Refugee Families in Rural France

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

‘I’m a Local…’

‘I’m a Local…’

‘We Are That In-Between Nation’: Discourses of Deservingness of Hungarian Migrants Working in Institutions of Refugee Accommodation in Germany

Participation of Refugee Youth in Germany’s VET System: Real-world Labs as Opportunities for Co-constructive Knowledge Production and Innovative Practice Transformation

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