Rethinking Resistance: Creativity and potentiality within the UK asylum system.

当代庇护地缘政治的特点是，越来越暴力的边境管制行为在不断扩大。在所谓的“全球北方”（Global North），国家边界已被推向离岸，越过传统国家领土的边缘，进入难民营、加工中心和拘留中心。与此同时，国家边界在国家内部成倍增加，出现在学校、工作场所和公共交通中：“边界”已经破碎（进入）日常生活的结构。然而，这种渗透的边界存在并非没有挑战；移民倡导团体、支持和接待网络不断增加。随着对移民控制的抵制不断扩大，对政策制定者、倡导者和公民社会提出了紧迫的问题，学术工作应运而生，评论、批评并试图干预抵制移民控制的多种实践和政策。然而，到目前为止，这样的工作往往仍然与对抵抗的不加批判的描述联系在一起。在批判性地审视抵抗本身的“范畴”时，我的作品提供了一种新的方法来理解抵抗作为一种固有的创造性、材料性和有时不连贯的实践。因此，我的研究询问我们如何通过对创造力的关注，以不同的方式看待抵抗。借鉴之前与慈善机构在这一领域（包括英国拘留中心的难民和社区中的寻求庇护者）工作的经验，这个奖学金将使我成功地完成三个目标：1。发表我的博士研究成果。提高我的公众影响力。把我的研究向前推进，并制定一个项目提案，在欧洲难民营的背景下继续这项工作。

The contemporary moment of asylum geopolitics, is characterised by an extension of increasingly violent practices of border control. Across the so-called Global North, national borders have been pushed offshore and moved beyond the edges of traditional state territory into camps, processing and detention centres. Simultaneously the national border has multiplied internally within the state, emerging in schools, workplaces and public transport: 'the' border has shattered (into) the fabric of everyday life. This seeping presence of the border is not however, unchallenged; there has been a growth in migrant advocacy groups, support and hospitality networks. As this resistance to immigration control expands, posing urgent questions for policymakers, advocates, and civil society as it does so, academic work has emerged, commenting, critiquing and attempting to intervene within the multiple practices and policies that are resisting practices of immigration control. However, such work has, to date, often remained wedded to an uncritical account of resistance. In critically examining the 'category' of resistance itself, my work offers a novel approach to understanding resistance as an inherently creative, material and at times incoherent practice. My research therefore asks how we can think differently about resistance, through an attention to creativity. Drawing upon previous work with charities working with refugees in this area (including in UK detention centres, and with asylum seekers in the community), this fellowship would allow me to successfully complete three aims:1. Publish from my doctoral research.2. Develop my public impact.3. Take my research forward, and develop a project proposal to continue this work in the context of European Refugee camps.