Asylum, migration and community

Description

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.

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, ethnographic, visual and participatory methodologies. Her previous publications include 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.

"Like the asylum seekers and migrants she studies, Maggie O'Neill brings a rich cargo of ideas and images to the terrain she enters, from psychoanalysis and Marxism, to creative and innovative participatory methods. Her book should engage scholars across a wide range of disciplines." Janice Haaken, Professor of Psychology, Portland State University "Maggie O'Neill's book is an essential and superb contribution to refugee and migration studies. It is indispensable reading for those who wish to create global and local communities without humiliation." Evelin G. Lindner, MD, PhDs, Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "This thoughtful and broad-ranging book will appeal to students, researchers and academics at all levels as well as those working on the ground with asylumseekers and refugees." Crime Media Culture journal "Asylum, Migration and Community provides the reader with a taste of more than a decade of O'Neill's highly valuable research crossing the boundaries of ethnography, community building and arts." - Critical Sociology