The fragility of welcome – commentary to Gill

Darling, Jonathan

doi:10.11143/fennia.75756

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“…To place the concept of "welcome" into context, we refer to Webster dictionary which defines the term as the act of being received with a friendly greeting or an extension of kindness or pleasantry. Darling (2018) expands on this definition by highlighting that the motives behind the gesture depend on the pleasure of the individual presence. Darling (2018) explores how the "culture of welcome" is fostered.…”

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“…Darling (2018) expands on this definition by highlighting that the motives behind the gesture depend on the pleasure of the individual presence. Darling (2018) explores how the "culture of welcome" is fostered. A culture of welcome may take many forms or modes and comes with varying degrees of intentionality and recognition.…”

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“…A welcoming environment may be either intentionally and personally conveyed or resulting from a generalized disposition or commitment. Regardless of the form, welcoming is deemed a negotiated process that involves varying durations, demands, and levels of commitment (Darling, 2018).…”

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Welcoming Ain’t Belonging: A Case Study that Explores How Two-year Predominantly White Colleges Can Foster an Environment of Validation and Mattering for Men of Color

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Zepeda²

2021

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The qualitative case study explored the factors that foster an atmosphere of belonging for men of color (MOC) attending a 2-year Predominantly White Institution. The pressing issue is the PWI colleges make the erroneous assumption that an extension or invitation of welcome is the same as fostering a sense of belonging for men of color (MOC). This led colleges to construct policies and practices that do not intentionally and deliberately create an atmosphere where MOC feel valued, validated, and visible. According to Maestas, Vaquera, and Zehr (2007), fostering a sense of belonging is paramount to the retention and graduation of students of color. The study surfaced three central themes: (a) experiencing an atmosphere of welcome, (b) desire for cultural representation and celebration (c) importance of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training. Though most colleges boast of creating a sense of belonging, the National Center for Education Statistics (2019) reports 25% of men of color graduate from a community college within 150 % or three-years of normal time. Additionally, the Community College Survey of Men (CCSM) reports a lack of validation, engagement, and high attrition rate for men of color attending these institutions (Harris & Wood, 2013). This can be problematic considering the majority of men of color began their academic journey by attending 2-year colleges. Community and 2-year colleges are critical to the educational system and positioned to improve access and equity for students of color, particularly males (Bailey, Jaggars, & Jenkins, 2015).

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Section: You Are Welcomementioning

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Welcoming Ain’t Belonging: A Case Study that Explores How Two-year Predominantly White Colleges Can Foster an Environment of Validation and Mattering for Men of Color

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Zepeda²

2021

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“…A "refuweegee" is defined as "a person who upon arrival in Glasgow is embraced by the people of the city, a person considered to be local", under the banner "We're all fae somewhere", communicating a message that what matters is not the process that placed asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow, but their presence in the city here and now (Refugweegee, 2017). Dispersal created not just conditions for dissent, but also conditions for the emergence of fragile and often temporary cultures of welcome in everyday urban life (Darling, 2018;Gill, 2018). Seeing like a city allows for these uncertain effects of dispersal to come to the fore, wherein the cultural responses of Glasgow, together with its political histories of solidarity and internationalism (Featherstone, 2012), combine with the lived realities of dispersal to present opportunities for challenging dominant narratives of asylum as an issue of securitization, regulation, and suspicion.…”

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Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum “like a city”

Darling

2020

Urban Geography

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This paper explores how asylum might be understood from an urban perspective. The paper focuses on a range of conceptual interventions mobilized around the notion of 'seeing like a city', which foreground the pragmatic and compositional nature of urban politics. These debates are placed in conversation with discussions over the changing nature of relations of power, to examine the dispersal of asylum seekers in the UK, arguing that current research on dispersal has tended to focus too exclusively on the regulatory and sovereign aspects of this policy. In doing so, such research has overlooked the urban manifestation of dispersal as a process that has created new knowledges and forms of expertise, whilst being sustained through spatially complex relations of present authority and distant accountability. In exploring these relations, the paper argues that a focus on 'refugee urbanism' may open productive new avenues for critically exploring urban asylum.

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“…Jonathan Darling (2018) continues the debate drawing upon a decade of fieldwork in a drop-in centre for asylum seekers and refugees in the city of Sheffield, UK. He takes Gill's (2018) essay as a starting point for reflection on how 'cultures of welcome' are produced.…”

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