Refugee advocacy, traumatic representations and political disenchantment

Government and Opposition

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 270-292

  Pupavac, Vanessa ^a  

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EID: 42149169079     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: 14777053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2008.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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2. See the website, at http://www.star-network.org.uk/.
3. See the website, at http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/.
4. For more details, see http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/ EventsExhibitions/Community/Belonging/.
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6. ICAR, Media Image, Community Impact: Assessing the Impact of Media and Political Images of Refugees and Asylum Seekers on Community Relations in London, London, ICAR, 2004.
7. Ibid.
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39. Ibid.
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43. Parsons, Action Theory, pp. 77-8.
44. Furedi, Therapy Culture, p. 98.
45. Ibid.
46. Robert Jackson addresses the problem in international relations and Joanna Macrae addresses the problem more specifically in humanitarian politics. Robert Jackson, Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990; Joanna Macrae, Aiding Recovery? The Crisis of Aid in Chronic Political Emergencies, London, Zed Books, 2001.
47. For example, Furedi, Therapy Culture; Nolan, Therapeutic State.
48. Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, pp. 292-300.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid., p. 294.
51. Ibid., p. 287.
52. ICAR, Reporting Asylum, p. 41, p. 141.
53. Sonya Dyer, Boxed In, London, Manifesto Club, 2007.
54. Ibid., p. 295.
55. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World, New Haven, CT, and London, Yale University Press, 1982, p. 39.
56. ICAR, Reporting Asylum, p. 41.
57. Article 19, What's the Story?, p. 34.
58. 'A Sensible Proposal to Break this Vicious Circle', Independent, leading article, 25 April 2007. See also special pleading for a visa extension in James Randerton, 'I Am Not an Asylum Seeker', Guardian, 23 October 2007.
59. ICAR, Reporting Asylum.
60. Student Action for Refugees (STAR).
61. ICAR, Reporting Asylum, p. 13, p. 141.
62. Ibid., p. 35
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67. Article 19, What's the Story?, p. 9
68. ICAR, Reporting Asylum, p. 31 and 61.
69. Article 19, What's the Story?, p. 10.
70. Frances Nicholson and Patrick Twomey, Refugee Rights and Realities: Evolving International Concepts and Regimes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. For a personal example, my parents-in-law were fortunate in arriving in Britain on the evening before the government introduced visa requirements for Yugoslav citizens in November 1992. Their nephew who tried to travel to Britain the next day failed and was unable to flee the war, although had he managed to enter Britain his claim would probably have succeeded.
71. Rutvica Andrijasevic, 'The Difference Borders Make: (Il)legality, Migration and Trafficking in Italy among Eastern European Women in Prostitution', in S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A. Fortier and M. Sheller (eds), Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, Oxford, Berg, 2003, pp. 251-72.
72. Ibid.
73. ICAR, Reporting Asylum, p. 145.
74. Ibid.
75. Jonny Medland, 'Coleman Petition Slammed', Oxford Student, 19 April 2007.
76. National Union of Students (NUS) 'No Platform', available at http://www.nusonline.co.uk/campaigns/antiracismantifascism/11534.aspx.
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78. Teresa Hayter, 'Watching David Coleman, Comment is Free', Guardian, 16 March 2007.
79. Terence Blacker, 'If Academics Can't Think Freely, Who Can?', Independent, 9 March 2007; Richard Garner, 'The Academic: Oxford Professor Defends his Anti-Immigrant Views', Independent, 9 March 2007.
80. Maria Grasso and Lee Jones, 'If We Want Open Borders, We Need Open Debate', Spiked Online, 5 March 2007.
81. See, for example: BBC online news, 'Asylum Seekers' NHS Use Reviewed', 2 December 2007; BBC online news, 'Are Health Tourists Draining the NHS?', 14 May, 2004; BBC online news, 'Fresh Crackdown on NHS "Tourists" ', 14 May 2004, available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/ ; ' "Health Tourists" Leave Tens of Millions in NHS Bills Unpaid', Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2006, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ; Frances Elliott, 'NHS Bill for Treatment of "Health Tourists" Soars to More Than £62m', The Times, 3 September 2007, available at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk.
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