Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- one Globalisation, forced migration, humiliation and social justice
- two Asylum-migration-community nexus
- three Researching the asylum-migration-community nexus
- four Representing refugees and asylum seekers in the mainstream and alternative media: discourses of inclusion and exclusion
- five Diasporic communities: citizenship, social justice and belonging
- six Children, young people and unaccompanied young people
- seven Women refugees and asylum seekers
- eight Refused asylum seekers, destitution, poverty and social networks
- nine Human dignity, humiliation and social justice: beyond borders – re-imagining the asylum-migration-community nexus
- Bibliography
- Index
two - Asylum-migration-community nexus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- one Globalisation, forced migration, humiliation and social justice
- two Asylum-migration-community nexus
- three Researching the asylum-migration-community nexus
- four Representing refugees and asylum seekers in the mainstream and alternative media: discourses of inclusion and exclusion
- five Diasporic communities: citizenship, social justice and belonging
- six Children, young people and unaccompanied young people
- seven Women refugees and asylum seekers
- eight Refused asylum seekers, destitution, poverty and social networks
- nine Human dignity, humiliation and social justice: beyond borders – re-imagining the asylum-migration-community nexus
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
If there is to be a community in the world of individuals, it can only be (and needs to be) a community woven together from sharing and mutual care: a community of concern and responsibility for the equal right to be human and the equal ability to act on that right. (Bauman, 2001, pp 149-50)
‘Imagine a long free fall without knowing what's going to happen to you whether you are going to smash on the ground or land on something smooth and comfortable and suddenly you get news that your case has been accepted, here it is, the documents I have been waiting for. Yes we are proud of our new home, life and the way that we can gather round the table like this, and just you know, to feel as a family again, that is a wonderful thing. For several months now we have been living here but you know, quite happily, and trying to settle down, lovely neighbourhood. I felt like I was reborn you know and even in the eyes of the family you feel decent, you feel that you have finally managed to protect them, and I feel that I will be able to help these children become decent members of this society, where they live, now their home.’ (quoted on www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/asylum-seeking-asylum/6375.html)
This chapter discusses the asylum-migration-community nexus as it is experienced in the UK within the context of globalisation and discussions of social justice raised in Chapter One. Concepts and understandings of ‘community’ linked to asylum and migration are discussed in the context of broader social, relational and historical processes. Indeed, as Schoene (2009) argues, globalisation demands an account and understanding of community, ‘how we connect one to the other, starting with the most intimate levels of everyday existence (our lives as family members, lovers and friends) via our communal neighbourhoods right up to the abstract heights of the nation and the globe as a whole’ (Schoene, 2009, p 180).
This chapter aims to problematise the concept of community, and argues that it is important to explore the tensions between asylum, migration and community in the lives of people seeking asylum and refuge as well as in relation to the broader social processes and structures identified in Chapter One.
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