Geographies of asylum, legal knowledge and legal practices

White, Allen

doi:10.1016/s0962-6298(02)00086-0

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“…90 This post-imperial hazard was closely linked with refugees, asylum seekers, the homeless and poverty, inspiring an imagery of Britain invaded with foreign migrants bringing disease into the country. Although the national newspaper media did not employ the hydraulic metaphors often associated with the reporting of asylum and immigration issues, 91 the tuberculosis outbreak in Leicester was positioned nevertheless in relation to them. Indeed, it is clear that for some national newspapers the outbreak represented further evidence of the supposed threat to the nation's health.…”

Section: The Threat Of a Borderless Citymentioning

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Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester, UK, 2001

Bell

Brown

Faire

2006

cultural geographies

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This paper is inspired by an outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in the British East Midlands city of Leicester in 2001. In an era characterized by unprecedented advances in Western medical science an event of this kind might appear surprising. It challenges the feeling of wellbeing held in many Western countries, particularly in relation to diseases that appear both temporally and spatially distant. The paper examines how the event was reported in regional and national newspaper media and considers the significance attached to scale in the interactions between experts, the media and the public. In our analysis we mobilize a particular reading based on two biological metaphors, the membrane and the gene. We use this reading to reconsider the connectivity between disease, nation and identity in a world that is increasingly fluid, mobile, anxious and uncertain.

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Section: The Threat Of a Borderless Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester, UK, 2001

Bell

Brown

Faire

2006

cultural geographies

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“…Hyndman, 2000;Sales, 2002;White, 2002). In a British context, such work has been given considerable impetus by the widespread public concern expressed about the number of refugees seeking asylum in the UK.…”

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“…Lynn and Lea (2003, p. 426) argue this concern is mirrored in the news media, where asylum seekers are routinely depicted as a social, administrative, welfare and security problem, and hence cast into the role of modern 'folk devils'. In response, successive Conservative and Labour administrations have introduced policies designed to quell the 'flood' of asylum seekers that seemingly threatens to 'swamp' the state (White, 2002;Young, 1995). For example, the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act introduced new immigration controls, imposed severe restrictions on the civil rights of asylum seekers, and replaced welfare payments with vouchers for food, clothing and other expenses.…”

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‘Inappropriate and incongruous’: opposition to asylum centres in the English countryside

Hubbard

2005

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Different institutions are structured in different social contexts and have different goals to pursue, so different narratives are produced to meet the institutional requirements and assign the 'Other' to the right place. Immigrants are often described as the 'Other' who must be placed in a right position, like asylum seekers and clandestine illegal immigrants in the UK, who are identified by the media circles as the possible original carriers of the foot and mouth virus (White 2002(White , pp. 1055(White -1056.…”

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Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship

Bélanger

2008

Citizenship Studies

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Taiwan holds the Asian record for the proportion of families that involve so-called 'foreign brides'. Marriage migration has brought close to half a million immigrant spouses into the country over the past decades. Most of these women come from Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This paper discusses how the Taiwanese state and society have actively pursued the integration of immigrant spouses since 2002, with a set of policies that acknowledge the massive migration of 'foreign brides' and the impact of this phenomenon on society. It argues that the attempt to integrate new immigrants is fraught with a discourse that serves to further stigmatize these women, discriminate against them, and, therefore, create an 'Other' that is used to erect the ideology of nation-building in Taiwan. The paper provides a critical analysis of policies, academic discourse and NGOs fundraising strategies to show how these institutions reinforce the idea that immigrant spouses are problematic and, therefore, need to be 'Taiwanized'. This results in a system of differential legal and social citizenship in which immigrant spouses are at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Taiwanese society.

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Geographies of asylum, legal knowledge and legal practices

Cited by 56 publications

References 22 publications

Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester, UK, 2001

Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester, UK, 2001

‘Inappropriate and incongruous’: opposition to asylum centres in the English countryside

Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship

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