12 research outputs found
A welcoming nation? Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales
Full text linkThis volume addresses current debates around migration in, from and through Wales. It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand the diverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives.
A Welcoming Nation? adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences, which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusion and marginalisation take place. The volume is not only a book about migration, therefore, but also about the ways in which migratory experiences and status can intersect with other factors – such as age, gender, race and sexuality – providing original analyses of migration in Wales
Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation: The Mask of Piety, Williams, Colin H. (2013). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 343 p. ISBN : 978-1-137-00083-5
No full textLanguage-in-education policies, immigration and social cohesion in Catalonia: the case of Vic
No full textCommunity versus Commodity in Francophone Canada: A Multilevel Approach to the Neoliberalization of Immigration
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A Welcoming Nation?::Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales
No full textThis volume addresses current debates around migration in, from and through Wales. It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand the diverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives. A Welcoming Nation? adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences, which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusion and marginalisation take place. The volume is not only a book about migration, therefore, but also about the ways in which migratory experiences and status can intersect with other factors – such as age, gender, race and sexuality – providing original analyses of migration in Wales
The power of symbolic sanctuary: insights from Wales on the limitations and potential of a regional approach to sanctuary
Full text linkThis article explores sanctuary policies and practices for refugees and asylum seekers from a regional perspective. Following a declaration by the Welsh government in 2019, Wales became the first and only European region to explicitly connect to the wider sanctuary movement, with the stated intention of becoming a true ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ (NoS) (Welsh Government 2019). While European regions are traditionally unable to legislate and govern on immigration flows, they engage with the policy field by steering immigrant integration policies, which can both complement and contradict state frameworks. We argue that the Welsh government’s approach to sanctuary is richly symbolic and is used strategically to compensate for the lack of formal legislative competencies in the field of immigration and asylum, and to position itself in opposition to the UK government and its ‘hostile environment’ policy. We first trace the emergence of sanctuary as a concept in Wales. We then review the Welsh government’s policies and practices in the field and analyse their implications. Our analysis is based on parliamentary debates on sanctuary in the Senedd (Welsh parliament) between 2015 and 2020, responses to a parliamentary consultation on refugees and asylum seekers in 2016, and 19 semi-structured interviews with key actors from governmental and non-governmental bodies working with refugees and asylum seekers. The article highlights the potential of symbolic policies to underpin a regional form of sanctuary, along with their limitations. First, we show that regions such as Wales can use symbolic policies to overcome their lack of legislative competency in asylum policies. Second, we argue that symbolic policies allow regional governments to position themselves as allies to those supporting refugees and asylum seekers, and as an opponent of the state. Third, we illustrate how a regional government’s symbolic commitment facilitates concerted action on the part of relevant governmental and non-governmental actors within the region. However, we also highlight the fragility and inconsistency of symbolic sanctuary.This article explores sanctuary policies and practices from a regional perspective. Following a declaration by the Welsh government in 2019, Wales became the first and only European region to explicitly connect to the wider sanctuary movement, with the stated intention of becoming a true ‘Nation of Sanctuary' (NoS) (Welsh Government. 2019. “Nation of Sanctuary: Refugee and Asylum Seeker Plan.” Cardiff: Welsh Government). We argue that the Welsh government’s approach to sanctuary is richly symbolic and is used strategically to compensate for the lack of formal legislative competencies in the field of immigration, and to position itself in opposition to the UK government. The article highlights the potential of symbolic policies to underpin a regional form of sanctuary, along with their limitations. We show that regions can use symbolic policies to overcome their lack of legislative competency in asylum policies and argue that symbolic policies allow regional governments to position themselves as allies to those supporting refugees and asylum seekers, and as an opponent of the state. In addition, we illustrate how a regional government's symbolic commitment facilitates concerted action on the part of relevant actors within the region. However, we also highlight the fragility and inconsistency of symbolic sanctuary.</p
Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices:Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?
No full textThis article explores sanctuary in Wales, focusing on the Welsh Government’s recent declaration to become a Nation of Sanctuary (NoS), and identifying how the national scale provides an alternative locus for progressive sanctuary measures. In revealing the nation’s emergence as another crucial site of sanctuary, the work reconceptualizes the nation’s place in sanctuary policies and practices in two ways: (i) it locates sanctuary through a national scale, thus moving beyond the city/state dichotomy that has dominated explanations of sanctuary, and (ii) it shows the importance of decoupling the nation-state compound while simultaneously integrating the nation(al) into discussions on sanctuary without being bound to the state or xenophobic populism. In showing how “nations against the state” can participate in sanctuary measures, we expand the current understanding of where sanctuary can be found, and capture the various forms of national belonging and identities that exist within plurinational states, including alternative, progressive forms of civic belonging. This is particularly significant in light of the tightening of state immigration policies, greater regulation of immigrant entry at state borders, and continuation of restrictive citizenship policies witnessed in recent years, which have ignited sanctuary measures aimed at creating safe spaces beyond the reach of state measures
Translating sanctuary:Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context
Full text linkThis paper explores the rescaling of sanctuary to the national scale, distinct from the state scale. While scholarship has largely focussed on how sanctuary, hospitality and citizenship are provided at city scales, we analyse how substate nations respond to people seeking sanctuary by focussing on the case of Wales, an officially bilingual nation (multilingual in practice) within a plurinational state. By unpacking different meanings of Nation of Sanctuary (NoS)/Cenedl Noddfa (CN) in English and Welsh, we demonstrate the importance of adopting a ‘national gaze’ for complex, nuanced and heterogeneous understandings, rather than singular and homogenous assumptions (often associated with national perspectives). In interrogating etymology and meanings of sanctuary and delving into the (subtly) different meanings of lloches and noddfa, we illustrate the nuances and complexities of sanctuary politics and practices in a bilingual nation. This highlights the significance of considering the presence of competing, contrasting or complementary understandings of sanctuary in multilingual nations along with the various histories, cultures and ideas of belonging that shape sanctuary practices, rather than leaving translation as an afterthought. In uncovering the complexities and different meanings of NoS/CN, we develop a novel perspective on understandings of host/guest relations and provide an alternative way of understanding this dyadic distinction central to extant hospitality scholarship.</p
