Upload
rmborders
View
26
Download
1
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Slide 1
Where were you?
Hard words for hard times languages and justice in a time of war on refugees.
Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow
1
Lampadusa 2013:
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? in that gray vault. The sea. The seahas locked them up. The sea is History.
(Derek Walcott)
Australia and Boat PeopleBarat Ali Batoor
Silence & Vigils
Chronic humanitarian situation facing refugeesChronic situation of well over 15 years.-UK dispersal policyUse of detention and deportationSuccessvie Immigation ActsDevelopment of a culture of disbeliefSystematic abuse of human rights in UK
Refugee Crisis2 Events (Badiou)
The change of heart by a politician and a country.
Aylan Kurdi image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9kv-rmvGKg
(TM1.20)
Refugee Crisis responsesWe have RoomGlasgow sees SyriaTask ForceResettlement (VPR) schemeLesvos/Calais AidMSFRefugee/EU/ UK policy based on Australian Solutions
RefugeesDesignated as in need of special care under UN convention, 1951.
Until status is granted there is no escape from the liminal state and the danger it poses.
Categories of protection.
Refugee MigrationsTwo-thirds of the world's 61 million refugees (2015) are living in developing countries. Many are living in large refugee camps. (Source: UNHCR.) In 2012 Scotland hosted around 2,000 asylum seekers- a tiny proportion of the world's refugee population, and around 10% of the total number of asylum seekers making claims in the UK. (Source: UK Government, 2013.)
Contd/Asylum seekers make up less than 0.5% of the population of Glasgow (where the vast majority of asylum seekers in Scotland live). If all the refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland gathered at Hampden stadium it would be less than 40% full. In Europe, in 2012 the UK ranked 11th in the European Union in terms of asylum applicants per head of population. In terms of absolute numbers of applications, France, Germany and Sweden all received more thanthe UK. France and Germany both received almost three times more than the UK. (Source: UK Government, 2013.)
Human Capital vs Human Lives
Lederach & Lederach Project-driven mentalities & logistical sequencing of events for addressing change misses out on the metaphors of lived experience.
Underlying Stories: Languages, justice & healing?
You are stingy with your language. You do not speak to us in the street
Where were you?
The Churches: Ambivalence and Courage
Presence and AbsenceSt Andrews MaltaCaritasNight ShelterGosford AnglicanBute
Where were you?
Hell exists and its Destitution/ Detention/ Deportation
Sharing the World: Crossing again
Meeting a stranger outside of our own boundaries is rather easy, and even satisfies our aspirations, as long as we can return home and appropriate between ourselves what we have in this way discovered. To be forced to limit and change our home, or our way of being at home, is much more difficult, especially without being unfaithful to ourselves. (Irigarary, 113)
You have to Change your LifePractice of hospitalityLoss of an innocenceChurch & CommunityConversion to the way of the poor.Miracles, faith, hope.Justice not charity.
An Open Letter
Its War
Where were you?: GRAMNetPTC principlesEvents, networks, projectsPolicy interventionsMediaArt
Singing Good-bye to Red Road
AHRC: Researching Multilingually at Borders
Languages as a social categoryLanguages under Pain and Pressure.Troubling the cult of English/monolingually masked research.
Languages and Creativity in the Pursuit of HealingLanguages as data-bytes or languages as the primary facilitators of social integration and healing.
Liturgies of welcome and prayer as an antedote to Babel
Multilingual DemocraciesTo the forces of monolingualism and English-only policies the multilingual subject stands as a quixotic figure.
A killjoy.
Sanctions. Deportations based on language (& gender)
A condition requiring artistry. And defiance.
Good English
How to become a multilingual DemocracyESOL provisionLanguage deficit modelsLearn from International Relations and diplomacyStop using languages as a proxy for diversity.Learn from multilingual contests and places of pain and pressure.
Learning with Gaza
1 month later: Designing Arabic Training in GazaNazmi Al Masri TEFL model/ AFL qualityEmployability/peace projectConflict and Compassion are central concerns
Notes for ALison
Describe in brief the context of the project i.e. attempt to create an SME out of an EU funded programme of reflection and benchmarking from which Arabic training for language teachers for work in online environments, but which was highly contextualised and meeting those moved to compassion and humanitarian work.
Noticable points- Highest regard for EFL/ESOL programmes and in a context of academic scarcity of articles and electricity/material resources a desire to use Western CCC methods uncritically to quickly establish a marketable product. Internationalisation linked with Saudi and EU partners etc.Partnership working and the insertion of critically framings both regarding digital resources but also regarding the postcolonial context have allowed the aspects of conflict and compassion and context to be brought front and centreCreativity in response - sign language; alos Chomsky classes.
IUG Multilingual campus: 6 languages English BrailleArabic sign languageArt, Languages & technology designing gifts & furniture by engineers & physically impaired people (Mosaic Works, Arabesque work)
Gaza teaches back
Language and the Arts of Resistance
We Refugees: ArendtThe concomity of the European peoples went to pieces, when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted. (p119).
AgambenIf in the system of the nation-state the refugee represents such a disquieting element, it is above all because by breaking up the identity between man and citizen, between nativity and nationality, the refugee throws into crisis the original fiction of sovereignty. (Agamben, Symposium, We Refugees p.117)
Where were you? What did you do?Reverential Contexts (Sontag)Cultural actionsChanging language and languagesArtistryNew theologies of hospitality.Prayer & Protest on the streetsAnd the church?
The Academic Border Guard
Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State
[email protected]@alison_phipps
http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com