Creating hospitable urban spaces: A multicultural city for refugees and asylum seekers. (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sidhu, Ravinder; Rossi-Sackey, Donata
• Other Names: Ye Junjia guest-editor.; Yeoh Brenda SA guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban studies. Volume 59:Number 16(2022)
• Page Start: 3404
• Page End: 3421
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: affective solidarities -- hospitality -- multicultural city -- protest -- refugees and asylum seekers -- urban citizenship; 情感团结 -- 热情好客 -- 多元文化城市 -- 抗议 -- 难民和寻求庇护者 -- 城市公民身份; Cities and towns -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; 307.1216
• DOI: 10.1177/00420980221109050
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0980

Abstract

Australia is one of a handful of countries offering permanent settlement to refugees. It also has some of the harshest border-controlling measures. Drawing on Derrida's writing on hospitality, and related work on hospitality's affective and spatial dimensions, we examine the micropolitics of hospitality towards forced migrants in an Australian city (Brisbane). Our interest is in the affordances of affective hospitality to interrupt practices of differential inclusion in the city. The first part of the paper examines practices of embedded activism in health and education encounters, while the second part explores affect's influence on the protest sensibility in urban movements against mandatory detention. The paper furthers understandings of the embodied and affective dimensions of hospitality in social justice work performed in urban spaces.