Accommodating strangers: British hospitality and the asylum hotel debate

The hospitable city: social relations in commercial spaces

“…Cosmopolitan tourism is enabled through another cosmopolitanism, of migrant workers staffing bars, restaurants, hotels and visitor attractions (Werbner, 1999;Gibson, 2003). These workers are undertaking labours of hospitality different from both the critical infrastructure sketched earlier, and the idealized host in philosophical accounts which centre on the generosity of the 'master of the house'.…”

What is Hospitality?

“…Th e writings of Emmanuel Kant (born in 1724-died in 1804), the humanist; Jacques Derrida (born in 1930-died in 2004), the deconstructionist; and Emmanuelis Levinas (born in 1906Levinas (born in -died in 1995, the philosopher (Lynch et al, 2011;Gibson, 2003Gibson, , 2006Gibson, , 2007O'Dell, 2007;Friese, 2004;Zlomislic, 2004;Cresswell, 2007;Laachir, 2007;Germann Molz, 2007) have recently inspired much philosophical deliberation on the ethics and politics of hospitality. In these philosophical accounts writers have used hospitality to refl ect critically a boarder questions about citizenship, human rights and the ethical treatment strangers.…”

The Im/mobilities of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan: Pan-Arabism, ‘Hospitality’ and the Figure of the ‘Refugee’

“…In this framework, the 'host' state is seen as the victim of the dangerous and 'parasitical' refugee (Laachir, 2007, p. 177;Germann Molz & Gibson, 2007, pp. 9-10) Such frameworks have meant that the (limited) humanitarian space for refugees has only contracted over the years (Malkki, 1992(Malkki, , 1995Peteet, 2007b;Gibson, 2003Gibson, , 2007Shami, 1996). Indeed, as Peter Noble outlines, states in the Global North have reacted to such flows in an 'arms race against humanitarianism' and an 'escalation of unilateral measures against refugees ' (1988, pp.…”