The Language of Asylum
Refugees and Discourse
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Constructing Peace and Violence in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
One emerging theme in peace psychology has been the need for a more differentiated perspective on the meanings and types of peace and violence. Recent work has sought to distinguish between direct and structur...
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The Self
Following the early work of James, mainstream social psychological approaches to the self have, first, treated individuals and society as separable and distinguishable entities and, second, located the psychol...
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Attitudes and Attributions
Much social psychological study of attitudes and attributions has treated these as properties that are intrinsic to the individual, indicating how the individual evaluates or explains phenomena in the external...
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Introduction
Above we see the words of 15-year-old Qadir describing the effects for him of a two-year journey made to the UK to escape imminent danger in his local village outside Kabul, Afghanistan. In making this journey...
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Conclusion
We described in the introduction to this text the need for asylum and refuge in a world full of conflict, poverty and ensuing upheaval that has led, and continues to lead, to the mass displacement of millions ...
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Theory and Method in Understanding the Experiences of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers
In the excerpt above, taken from the well-known children’s story Through the Looking Glass, we see a debate between Alice and Humpty Dumpty as to how words are to be understood. Alice’s argument, as we see, is th...
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Places of Safety — Constructing Countries of Refuge
There is a range of evidence to suggest that asylum-seekers in the UK are fleeing dangerous situations in their countries of origin as shown in the previous chapter. These situations include persecution based ...
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Asylum-Seekers and the Right to Work
For many people, the right to work is taken for granted. It is assumed that being in employment of some kind, earning a wage to support yourself and your family, is something to which everyone is entitled. How...
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Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Integration
The concept of integration is often used in academic literature, policy discussions, the media and everyday conversations when discussing the experiences of migrants. Despite (or perhaps because of) its wide u...
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Policy and Research on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers
Above we see an excerpt from a speech given by the UK Prime Minster, David Cameron, on the topic of immigration and welfare reform. In the course of his speech, encapsulated within this excerpt, Cameron sets o...
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Places of Death — Constructing Asylum-Seekers’ and Refugees’ Countries of Origin
Becoming a refugee means leaving one’s home and being an international refugee means leaving one’s country of origin behind, which is true of asylum-seekers in the UK. The literature on asylum-seeking and refu...
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Who Counts as an Asylum-Seeker or Refugee?
As demonstrated in Chapter 1, a refugee is defined by the 1951 Refugee Convention as someone who:
owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, memb...
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Destitution, Detention and Forced Return
Asylum-seekers face the constant threat of having their claims for asylum refused, in which case they may have their support ended and become destitute, or may be detained or forced to return to their country of ...
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Relationships with Local Residents — Antagonism, Racism and Belonging
Research has found that public attitudes in the UK towards asylum-seekers and refugees are characterized by ambivalence and can include open hostility (Kushner, 2006; Lewis, 2005, 2006). More worryingly, many ...
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The Research Interview in Adult Mental Health: Problems and Possibilities for Discourse Studies
The aim of this chapter is to critically discuss the research interview in adult mental health by examining the ways in which discourse studies can further contribute to the understanding of research practice....
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Living with falls: house-bound older people’s experiences of health and community care
Despite world-wide emphasis on falls prevention, falls and their consequences remain a major health issue for older people, and their health care providers. Many systematic reviews have been undertaken to eval...
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Cancer-related psychosocial research: what are the perspectives of cancer care centre users on participation?
To explore the perspectives of cancer care centre users on participation in psychosocial research to inform research design and ethics.
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Femininity, Mental Weakness, and Difference: Male Students Account for Anorexia Nervosa in Men
The purpose of this study was to examine how men account for the diagnosis in men of anorexia nervosa (AN), a condition commonly associated with women. Male students participated in focus group discussions of ...
