Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change (1) (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

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Synopsis
This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Swedish asylum context, together with data collected in other European countries, to explore how the circumstances of those navigating asylum processes evolve and connect to their notions of hope and the future. Departing from the ambiguities and fragility surrounding hope in the asylum context, Hope and Asylum analyses people’s lived experiences and their navigation of uncertainty and precariousness during the migration process. While hope can provide individuals with support and empowerment, it can also cause pain and be exploited by authorities to control and disempower. The book argues that critically scrutinising current asylum regimes and exposing the enduring emotional and embodied scars they inflict through the bureaucratic violence of welfare states is essential for mobilising efforts toward social justice and human rights. Demonstrating the importance of hope and related concepts to our understanding of daily life experiences, social interaction, and precariousness within the asylum context, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora, immigration policy, refugee studies, and asylum regimes.Book: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Size:
182 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040369487
Related ISBNs:
9781032333045, 9781003319030, 9781040369470
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson and Marcus Herz, The right of Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson and Marcus Herz to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
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