How cities shape refugee centres: ‘deservingness’ and ‘good aid’ in a Sicilian town

Casati, Noemi

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1354689

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“…If we consider this from the framework of economic deservingness (Sales 2002), the decision to exclude the most vulnerable refugees also indicates the tensions between different dimensions of deservingness. While from a moral point of view (Malkki 1996;Casati 2017), the most vulnerable need care more than anyone else; from an economic viewpoint it is more rational to invest resources in the group that is most likely to benefit from the project.…”

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“…In recent years, "deservingness" has increasingly become a focus of attention for those studying public discourse on refugees. Most authors investigating these issues highlight how these categories shape refugee reception systems, programmes of social assistance and the views of those who work in these programmes (Casati 2017;Hardy and Philipps 1999;Holmes and Castañeda 2016;Sales 2002;Walaardt 2013). While analysing Germany's reception context in the midst of the 2015 refugee crisis, Holmes and Castañeda (2016) argue that the lexicon of terror used to frame refugees and the crisis can have fatal consequences.…”

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Shaping the “Deserving Refugee”: Insights from a Local Reception Programme in Belgium

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Mahieu

Belloni

et al. 2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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The sudden increase of asylum applications in the aftermath of the 2015 “refugee crisis”, has sparked the debate on the concept of “deservingness” in public discourse. Who deserves to enter into European territory? Who deserves to receive state-funded assistance? This article unpacks the notion of “deservingness” by analysing the rationalities of care underpinning a European-funded local support programme in Antwerp (Belgium). The programme offers special assistance to former unaccompanied minors, recognised as beneficiaries of legal protection, who have recently turned 18. By examining the categories, attitudes and perceptions shaping this local project, we show how the idea of “deservingness”, a central notion in wider European discourses on refugee reception, is reproduced and critically implemented by local actors of refugee assistance. Drawing on focus group interviews with five municipal and civil society organizations, we untangle legal, moral and economic dimensions of deservingness and illustrate how these can overlap or contradict each other within stakeholders’ perspectives. The analysis of the different stakeholders’ perspectives about the assumed characteristics of this “new” category of refugees deserving special care shows the significance of stakeholders’ respective organisational backgrounds. On a deeper level, ideas on deservingness reflect stakeholders’ different aspirations about the kind of citizens young refugees should become. As such, this chapter contributes to deeper understanding of moralities and rationalities shaping public discourse and local reception of refugees in Europe. It also highlights the role of localities in shaping innovative policies and in the wider debate on refugee assistance.

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Section: Tensions Between Different Dimensions Of Deservingnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping the “Deserving Refugee”: Insights from a Local Reception Programme in Belgium

Ravn

Mahieu

Belloni

et al. 2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…Indeed, the system has been criticized for being driven by an emergency logic, such as during the migration flows from the Balkans in the 1990s and the North-African emergency in 2011/12. Also, another line of research that is expanding in recent years looks at the local dimension and experiences of the reception and integration system (Loprieno et al, 2019, Casati 2018, providing insights on the highly diverse local and regional realities in Italy. Studies on the local dimensions have also documented the multiplicity of configurations of multi-level governance (Campomori & Caponio 2017).…”

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“…However, experiences of reception were not all synonymous with bad quality and dysfunctionalities. There has also been an increased interest in examining local experiences of reception and integration (Casati, 2018;Loprieno & Elia, 2018), looking at both virtuous and less virtuous reception projects.…”

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Rethinking the Economics and the Governance of Reception of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants: The Case of Italy

Ricard-Guay

2019

SSRN Journal

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The significant numbers of arrivals through the Central Mediterranean route to Italy between 2014 and 2017 have put the Italian reception system under pressure, and pushed its rapid expansion. This paper examines how the governance of reception has evolved between 2011 and 2018, a time during which the reception system went through two major yet contrasting reforms while at the same time facing an emergency. Based on desk research and qualitative interviews with reception workers, the paper looks simultaneously at the interplay between the changes in terms of regulations, actors and modalities, and the economic aspects of reception governance. The paper adopts the concept of moral economy of reception, which enables to analyse the evolving context in which are differentiated those deserving and undeserving of reception, and the meaning attached to reception. The changes in the governance of reception has also brought changes in the moral economy of reception, shifting from some form of solidarity to discriminatory moral economy based on a hierarchy of deservedness.

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“…Il est intéressant de noter ce glissement de l'appréhension de la vulnérabilité à l'économie du soupçon (Linhardt, 2001). Cela illustre la tension existante entre une appréciation du migrant basée sur son statut de victime et une évaluation de sa légitimité basée sur la mesure de sa (bonne) volonté (Casati, 2017), que l'on retrouve vis-à-vis de ces deux « publics », surtout lorsque les réactions et demandes des « accueillis », ne correspondant pas au comportement de gratitude attendu, ce qui semble démentir l'idée qu'on se fait de leur « vulnérabilité ». C'est ainsi le cas lorsqu'en découvrant son logement à son arrivée dans une commune, une femme syrienne se plaint de l'absence de machine à laver, alors que la référente, pensant que la priorité première est la sécurité et la mise à l'abri de la famille, se préoccupe de la rassurer quant aux bruits provoqués par le passage régulier d'avions 41 .…”

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L’école française face aux nouvelles figures de l’immigration : le cas d’enfants de migrants roms bulgares et de réfugiés syriens dans des territoires scolaires contrastés

Clavé-Mercier¹,

Schiff²

2018

Raisons Éducatives

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Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Université de Genève. © Université de Genève. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Document téléchargé depuis www.cairn.info ---44.224.250.200 -06/07/2020 07:50 -© Université de Genève Document téléchargé depuis www.cairn.info ---44.224.250.200 -06/07/2020 07:50 -© Université de Genève 196 Raisons éducatives -n° 22 ABSTRACT -Making adjustments to new types of migrant pupils in French schools: the case of Bulgarian Roma and Syrian refugee children in urban versus rural contextsBased on an ethnographic study conducted in different localities in a French region, this article examines the adjustments made by schools in order to cope with the difficulties posed by the arrival of children from migrant populations as yet scarce in France. These include Bulgarian Roma families concentrated in precarious settlements in urban centers and isolated Syrian refugee families who have been 'resettled' in various rural communities which have volunteered to receive them. The comparison highlights the fact that multiplying special education provisions and resources dedicated to foreign language students does not necessarily lead to their inclusion, while the absence of such services is not in itself an obstacle to their integration at school, as long as various actors are mobilized around these children. Our assessment of reception conditions and of the impact of commonly held beliefs which distinguish economic migrants from refugees reveals that when support for these pupils becomes everyone's business, their presence acquires a legitimacy which encourages educational innovation and widespread acceptance of their differences.

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How cities shape refugee centres: ‘deservingness’ and ‘good aid’ in a Sicilian town

Cited by 45 publications

References 26 publications

Shaping the “Deserving Refugee”: Insights from a Local Reception Programme in Belgium

Shaping the “Deserving Refugee”: Insights from a Local Reception Programme in Belgium

Rethinking the Economics and the Governance of Reception of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants: The Case of Italy

L’école française face aux nouvelles figures de l’immigration : le cas d’enfants de migrants roms bulgares et de réfugiés syriens dans des territoires scolaires contrastés

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