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At 11:33 02/12/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>This is just to announce that a copy of my paper "Geography and refugees:
>some theoretical reflections" has gone online on the crit-geog-forum
>website. The address is:
>http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/crit-geog-forum/files/white.htm
>Another copy of this paper is also available at the Popfest site:
>http://come.to/popfest/
>thanking you
>Allen
>
>Abstract follows:
>
>In this paper I argue that research into asylum-seekers and refugees has
>rested on a separation within Refugee Studies into two discursive
>formations - one of 'asylum' and one of '(re)settlement'. I argue that
>these two discursive formations occupy very different asylum spaces. In
>'asylum' literature the scale is often transnational and global, whereas
>the scale is sub national, more localised and often individualised in
>'(re)settlement' literature. This dichotomy doesn't arise simply because of
>particular types of research in refugee studies, instead it is linked to a
>deeper, more structural separation in the discourses and institutional
>framework of the refugee world and is the result of the under theorisation
>of refugee flows in human geography. This is partly because the social
>sciences and the humanities accept at face value legal discourses on
>refugees, asylum and asylum-seeking, and also because refugee flows are not
>seen in the context of international migration flows, and by extension
>international migration theory. I conclude by arguing that refugee and
>asylum institutions comprise a research 'space' that we can use to
>overcome this separation. Refugee and asylum institutions offer refugees
>and asylum seekers access to social resources and resettlement networks as
>well as being the places asylum law is given meaning and where asylum
>claims and appeals are prepared etc.
>
>Allen White email: [log in to unmask]
>Lecturer in Human Geography tel: 01570 424753
>University of Wales Lampeter fax: 01570 424714
>Ceredigion SA 48 7 ED
>Wales
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>
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