On Stories, Storytelling, and the Quiet Politics of Welcome
Keywords:
Storytelling, refugees, welcome, narratives, encountersAbstract
Focusing on a collaborative storytelling project with refugees and asylum seekers in the London borough of Waltham Forest, this paper explores the potential offered by creative storytelling and story-sharing for providing alternative narratives and spaces for inclusion, welcome and mutual care against a backdrop of hostility and exclusion. It challenges tendencies within prevailing discourses to either treat asylum narratives as ‘bogus’ or to essentialise individual refugee stories through the prevailing tropes of ‘victim’ or ‘hero’. Instead, we draw attention to the actual process of making, telling and sharing stories between refugees and local residents, in the Global Story Café project led by Stories & Supper. The paper examines how the spaces that emerged through sharing stories with refugees and asylum seekers in a series of creative workshops and targeted storytelling cafes with public participation opened up possibilities for what we refer to as a quiet politics of welcome – a form of welcome that moves beyond notions of charity or sympathy, disrupts perceived host-guest binaries and instead demonstrates the importance of ‘being with’. The paper highlights the need for more engagement and understanding of these ‘quiet’ acts of welcome, which can provide insights for challenging the overriding discourses about, and practices towards, refugees and asylum seekers.
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Bulley, Dan. 2017. Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics. London: Sage.
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Cameron Emilie. 2012. “New Geographies of Story and Storytelling.” Progress in Human Geography 36, no. 5: 573–592.
Calais Writers. 2017. Voices from the ‘Jungle’: Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp. London: Pluto Press.
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Crawley, Heaven and Dimitris Skleparis. 2018. “Refugees, migrants, neither, both: Categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44, no. 1: 48-64.
Dabiri, Emma, Leah Green and Bruno Rinvolucri. 2015. “Africans are being left behind by a two-tier refugee system.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree
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Eastmond, Marita. 2007. “Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research.” Journal of Refugee Studies 20, no. 2: 248-264.
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Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena. 2016. “Refugees Hosting Refugees.” Forced Migration Review 53: 25-27.
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Friese, Heidrun. 2010. “The Limits of Hospitality: Political Philosophy, Undocumented Migration and the Local Arena.” European Journal of Social Theory 13, no. 3: 323–41.
Gill, Nick. 2018. “The Suppression of Welcome.” Fennia 196, no. 1: 88-98.
Goodfellow, Maya. 2019. Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats. London: Verso Books.
Hall, Sarah Marie. 2019. “Everyday Austerity: Towards Relational Geographies of Family, Friendship and Intimacy.” Progress in Human Geography 43, no. 5: 769–789.
Harsch, Leonie. 2018. “Giving Refugees a Voice? Looking Beyond ‘Refugee Stories’.” Blog for Refugee Hosts https://refugeehosts.org/2018/01/08/giving-refugees-a-voice-looking-beyond-refugee-stories/
Horton, John and Peter Kraftl. 2009. “Small Acts, Kind Words and ‘Not too Much Fuss’: Implicit activisms.” Emotion, Space and Society 2, no. 1: 14-23.
Humphris, Rachel. 2019. Home-land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Space and the State. Bristol: University of Bristol Press/University of Chicago Press.
Huysmans, Jef. 2000. “The European Union and the Securitisation of Migration.” Journal of Common Market Studies 38, no. 5: 751-777.
Jackson, Michael. 2006. The Politics of Storytelling – Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press/University of Copenhagen.
Jeffers, Alison. 2011. Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jones, Reece. 2016. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. London: Verso.
Kallio, Kirsi P., Isabel Meier and Jouni Häkli. 2020. “Radical Hope in Asylum Seeking: Political Agency Beyond Linear Temporality.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47, no. 17: 4006-4022.
Khiabany, Gholam. 2016. “Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor.” Media, Culture and Society 38, no. 5: 755–762.
Kisiara, Otieno. 2015. “Marginalised at the Centre: How Public Narratives of Suffering Perpetuate Perceptions of Refugees’ Helplessness and Dependency.” Migration Letters 12, no. 2: 62-17.
Knudsen, John C. 1995. When Trust Is on Trial: Negotiating Refugee Narratives. In Mistrusting Refugees, edited by E. Valentine Daniel and John Chr. Knudsen. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Lawson, Victoria A. 2000. “Arguments within Geographies of Movement: The Theoretical Potential of Migrants’ Stories” Progress in Human Geography 24, no. 2: 173–189.
Loizos, Peter (1999) “Ottoman Half-Lives: Long-Term Perspectives on Particular Forced Migrations.” Journal of Refugee Studies 12, no. 3: 237–263.
Massey, Doreen. 1994. “A Global Sense of Place.” Marxism Today 38: 24-29.
McKittrick, Katherine. 2020. Dear Science and Other Stories. Durham, USA: Duke University Press.
McNevin, Anne and Anje Missbach. 2018. “Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen).” Journal of Refugee Studies 31, no. 3: 292–313.
Meretoja, Hanna. 2018. The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Millbank, Jenni. 2009.“‘The Ring of Truth’: A Case Study of Credibility Assessment in Particular Social Group Refugee Determinations.” International Journal of Refugee Law 21, no. 1: 1–33.
O’Neill, Maggie. 2010. Asylum, Migration, Community. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Passarly, Gulwali and Nadene Ghouri. 2017. The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy's Journey of Escape to A New Life in Britain. Atlantic Books, London.
Pottinger, Laura. 2017. “Planting the Seeds of Quiet Activism.” Area 49, no. 2: 215–222.
Price, Patricia L. 2010. “Cultural geography and the stories we tell ourselves.” Cultural Geographies 17, no. 2: 203-210.
Raanaas, Ruth K., Sissel Ø. Aase and Suzanne Huot. 2019. “Finding Meaningful Occupation in Refugees’ Resettlement: A Study of Amateur Choir Singing in Norway.” Journal of Occupational Science 26, no. 1: 67–76.
Refugee Tales. www.refugeetales.org/about
Riessman, Catherine K. 2005. “Exploring Ethics: A Narrative about Narrative Research in South India.” Health 9, no. 4: 473-490.
Rogaly, Ben. 2020. Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Rosello, Mireille. 2002. Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Rud, Jeremy. 2018. “After Asylum: Hermeneutic Composability in Former Refugee Narratives.” Narrative Inquiry 28, no. 1: 30-55.
Sheringham, Olivia, Janetka Platun, Caoimhe McAvinchey and Alison Blunt. 2019. “Globe's Encounters and the Art of Rolling: Home, Migration and Belonging.” Cultural Geographies 27, no. 2:177-199.
Sirriyeh, Ala. 2013. “Hosting Strangers: Hospitality and Family Practices in Fostering Unaccompanied Refugee Young People.” Child and Family Social Work 18, no. 1: 5-14.
Smith-Khan, Laura. 2017. “Telling Stories: Credibility and the Representation of Social Actors in Australian Asylum Appeals.” Discourse and Society 28, no. 5: 512-534.
Sparke, Matthew B. 2018. “Welcome, its Suppression, and the In-Between Spaces of Refugee Sub-Citizenship – Commentary to Gill.” Fennia 196, no. 2: 215-219.
Stavropoulou, Nelli. 2019. “Understanding the ‘Bigger Picture’: Lessons Learned from Participatory Visual Arts-Based Research with Individuals Seeking Asylum in the United Kingdom.” Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 10, no. 1: 95-118.
Stories in Transit: http://www.storiesintransit.org/info/about/
Tamboukou, Maria. 2020. “Narrative Rhythmanalysis: The Art and Politics of Listening to Women’s Narratives of Forced Displacement.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 24, no. 2: 149-162.
Taylor, Helen. 2015. Refugees and the Meaning of Home: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Trilling, Daniel. 2019. Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe. London: Picador.
Tsing, Anna. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group. 2018. “Still Falling Short: The Standard of Home Office Decision-making in Asylum Claims Based on Special Orientation and Gender Identity.” London.
Vogl, Anthea. 2013. “Telling Stories from Start to Finish: Exploring the Demand for Narrative in Refugee Testimony.” Griffith Law Review 22, no. 1: 63-86.
Warner, Marina. 2019. Stories in Transit. See https://www.marinawarner.com/teaching-and-other-activities/current-projects/
Westerman, William. 1998. Central American Refugee Testimonies and Performed Life Histories in the Sanctuary Movement. In The Oral History Reader, edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson. London: Routledge.
Wilson, Helen F. 2016. “On Geography and Encounter: Bodies, Borders and Difference.” Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 4: 451–471.
Woolley, Agnes. 2017. “Narrating the ‘Asylum Story’: Between Literary and Legal Storytelling.” Interventions 19, no. 3: 376-394.
Yuval-Davis, Nira, Georgie Wemyss and Katheryn Cassidy. 2018. “Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation.” Sociology 52, no. 2: 228–244.
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