Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization

Yeğenoğlu, Meyda

doi:10.1353/pmc.2003.0012

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“…However, as Derrida suggests, the enactment of absolute hospitality as a universal ideal is “inconceivable and incomprehensible” (cited in Westmoreland, 2008: 3), because there is a contradiction at the heart of hospitality. Absolute hospitality’s ethics demands a surrender of power and control to an outsider or guest—in the very home space (region/nation) that one legally possesses, and in which local governance policies and cultural values are operative (Yegenoglu, 2003: 10–11). For Derrida, this very restricting of hospitality calls into place claims of ownership, entitlements, and obligations.…”

Section: Hospitality As a Technology Of Settler Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Derrida, this very restricting of hospitality calls into place claims of ownership, entitlements, and obligations. In other words, particularized practices of law and culture (Yegenoglu, 2003) mobilized in the name of hospitality (and welcoming) enact dynamics of power and control (Derrida and Dufourmantelle, 2000: 5).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Derrida also reminds us that, when hosts enact hospitality as a series of conditional rules and responsibilities, then this practice not only “prescribes the other” (2000: 147), but also reinvigorates the hosts’ claim to ownership of the domain (nation, region or city). If it is “the master of the house who lays down the laws of hospitality” (Derrida and Dufourmantelle, 2000: 149), then the very nature of “conditional welcoming” defines the place from which one welcomes (Yegenoglu, 2003). “The law”, in other words, as reconceptualized within the framework of liberal multiculturalism and its associated logics of whiteness, stages “the conditions for appropriating for oneself a place to welcome the [racialized] other” (Derrida, cited in Yegenoglu, 2003: 6).…”

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Speaking welcome: A discursive analysis of an immigrant mentorship event in Atlantic Canada

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This article offers an analysis of a business mentorship event in Fredericton, NB, which targeted immigrants sponsored through the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program (NBPNP)—an economic revitalization program designed to attract foreign business people and skilled workers to settle in the province. Applying Derrida’s concept of hospitality as a technology of whiteness, we examine the stated and implicitly understood expectations for the NBPNP, including the mechanisms at play for regulating newcomer’s behavior and comportment. We locate our analysis in the context of a regionally expressed Canadian multiculturalism, extending the relevance of our findings beyond Fredericton to Atlantic Canada. We ask: how do associated discourses of whiteness, multiculturalism and hospitality come into play to shape dynamics of power existing between hosts (settlement workers, various shadow state actors and mentor volunteers) and racialized newcomer guests? As a racialized threshold event, the Sip, Greet and Meet facilitated an exchange of hospitality such that the New Brunswick native hosts marked newcomers as perpetual arrivants, while holding the immigrants responsible for the success of their settlement in the Fredericton region. We show how the discourses regarding newcomers’ duties cleared nativist inhabitants of any accountability for the success of immigrant settlement. We also show how the process of welcoming conveyed a message that the future success of the local community, the province and even Atlantic Canada depended on the business class immigrants’ ability to serve as dutiful and grateful guests.

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Speaking welcome: A discursive analysis of an immigrant mentorship event in Atlantic Canada

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“…Derrida was known, among other things, as an apologist for multiculturalism, promoted by the European political elite (Yegenoglu, 2003). Characteristically, in 1995, Derrida was associated with the campaign of the French Socialist Party candidate, Lionel Jospin.…”

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The Intellectuals in Contemporary Europe: Between Conformism and Non-Conformism

Chernoperov¹,

Usmanov²

2016

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Various issues related to the European intellectuals and their place in modern socio-political developments are explored in this paper. A new model of intellectuals' involvement in the civic and political life is proposed, suggesting three levels of relations with the authorities: that of the-powerless people,‖ of the-independent experts,‖ and of the-outsiders/nonconformists‖. Within this framework, the leading feature defining the European intellectuals' identification, their stance with regard to the state and society, and their motive for social action is shown to be the distinction between conformists and nonconformists.

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“…Consequently, he suggests, under liberal legal principles, hospitality necessarily reproduces an asymmetrical power relationship which valorizes the position of those defined as hosts and owners of national space. In this sense, "the welcoming of the [immigrant] other within the limits of law is possible on the condition that the host, the owner of the home, the one who accepts, remains the master of the home and thereby retains his/her authority in that place" (Yegenoglu 2003: ][15).…”

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(Re)negotiated identifications : reproducing and challenging the meanings of Arab, Canadian, and Arab Canadian identities in Ottawa

Sabra¹

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Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization

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Speaking welcome: A discursive analysis of an immigrant mentorship event in Atlantic Canada

Speaking welcome: A discursive analysis of an immigrant mentorship event in Atlantic Canada

The Intellectuals in Contemporary Europe: Between Conformism and Non-Conformism

(Re)negotiated identifications : reproducing and challenging the meanings of Arab, Canadian, and Arab Canadian identities in Ottawa

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