Asylum, Migration and Community

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Policy Press, Sep 17, 2010 - Political Science - 294 pages
Issues of asylum, migration, humanitarian protection and integration/belonging are of growing interest beyond the disciplines of refugee studies, migration, and social policy. Rooted in more than two decades of scholarship, this book uses critical social theory and the participatory, biographical and arts-based methods used with asylum seekers, refugees and emerging communities to explore the dynamics of the asylum-migration-community nexus. It argues that interdisciplinary analysis is required to deal with the complexity of the issues involved and offers understanding as praxis (purposeful knowledge), drawing on innovative research that is participatory, arts-based, performative and policy-relevant.

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Sangatte Centre queue
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one Globalisation forced migration humiliation and
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two Asylummigrationcommunity nexus
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Maggie O'Neill is Reader in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. She has extensive research experience in the field of forced migration using ethnographic, visual and participatory methodologies. Her previous publications include Adorno, culture and feminism (1999), Prostitution and feminism (2001) and Prostitution: Sex work, policy and politics co-authored with Teela Sanders and Jane Pitcher (2009). Maggie was co-editor of Sociology from 1999-2002 and has recently co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Visual Studies.

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