Border Politics and Hospitable Spaces in Stephen Frears’s<i>Dirty Pretty Things</i>

Gibson, Sarah

doi:10.1080/09528820601069631

Cited by 25 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…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.…”

Section: Hospitality As Social Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, the fortress signals defensive nationalism, with strong and secure borders, inhospitable rather than hospitable. Entering these spaces will depend on the diff erent imperatives which regulate them --the political (fortress), ethical (house), and commercial (hotel) forms of hospitality (Gibson, 2006). Intra-tribal hospitality: Intra-tribal hospitality in largely focused on reciprocity as diff erent families in the tribe provide feasting in the understanding that they will be guests of their guest on another occasion.…”

Section: Offi Cial Hospitality: Th Ough Telfermentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

What is Hospitality?

Kunwar

2017

The Gaze: J Tourism & Hosp.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Hospitality As Social Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Offi Cial Hospitality: Th Ough Telfermentioning

confidence: 99%

What is Hospitality?

Kunwar

2017

The Gaze: J Tourism & Hosp.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This ever-widening gulf of inequality, therefore, has been integral to the growth of London as global city. This disparity between utopia and reality is further illuminated by Gibson (2006), who demonstrates how the film illustrates New Labour's recent policies on immigration. Although New Labour has maintained a 'rhetoric of hospitality and tolerance' towards immigrants, it has simultaneously welcomed some but expelled others (Gibson, 2006: 696).…”

Section: A Dirty Pretty Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Between the dirty and the pretty

Whittaker

2011

International Journal of Cultural Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A B S T R A C T • This article demonstrates how Stephen Frears' 2002 British film Dirty PrettyThings can further our understanding of the paradoxical structures of globalized space. In examining the interdisciplinary relationship between geography and film, it will examine the ways in which a contemporary, globalized London is constructed of two conflicting, but mutually reinforcing geographical imaginations. Western political parties have often been quick to proclaim the boundless, utopian freedom that the economic process of globalization brings to bear. However, as Dirty Pretty Things demonstrates, this powerful geographical imaginary of utopia is in fact sustained by the exploitation of migrant bodies, who service the lifestyle of the city's burgeoning tourists and professional classes. These two contradictory geographical imaginations are, in turn, examined through Michel Foucault's well known notion of 'heterotopia' and the geographer Doreen Massey's writing on the 'double imaginary' of globalization. In doing so, the article will show how illegal migrants, whose bodies are exploited and commodified, inhabit a 'placeless place' between the two geographical imaginations: between London as a utopian 'pretty' place on the one hand, and a 'dirty' hidden place of surveillance and exclusion on the other. •

show abstract

“…The image of certain populations as hard-working people has, however, not prevented their racialisation or exclusion historically. Hrefna's implication that 'real' foreigners are a burden on society, reflects how migrants and refugees are frequently described in the media and in public discourse in Europe as parasites that do not contribute to society (Gibson 2006;Hervik 2004), which is also the case in Norway (Olwig 2011). Her emphasis on being hard working, as a justification for not being perceived as 'a foreigner', therefore builds on a discourse that assumes that migrants do not work and are dependent on welfare (Olwig 2011, 184).…”

Section: Not Foreignersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway

Guðjónsdóttir

Loftsdóttir

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the aftermath of the financial crisis that hit Iceland in October 2008, increased numbers of Icelanders migrated to Norway to seek employment due to difficult economic circumstances in Iceland. Using critical perspectives from postcolonial studies and critical whiteness studies, the paper explores how these Icelandic migrants in Norway make sense of their new position as economic migrants within a global economy characterised by a growing sense of precariousness, while past inequalities and racism continue to matter. We also examine how these migrants are perceived in Norwegian media, and how social discourses of Icelandic migrants reflect larger Norwegian debates on racism, desirability and cultural belonging. Media discourses in Norway and interviews with Icelandic migrants reveal a hierarchy of acceptability of migrants. Icelanders are positioned as highly desirable compared to other migrant groups due to the intersection of perceived racial belonging, nationality and class. Our discussion contributes, furthermore, towards a critical analysis of the category migrant, by exploring how the term immigrant (innvandrer/innflytjandi) is used in narratives of Icelandic migrants in Norway and in Norwegian media discussions, showing the negative and racialised connotations of the term immigrant and how its understanding is linked with vulnerable positions and discrimination. ARTICLE HISTORY

show abstract

Border Politics and Hospitable Spaces in Stephen Frears’sDirty Pretty Things

Cited by 25 publications

References 1 publication

What is Hospitality?

What is Hospitality?

Between the dirty and the pretty

Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About