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控制做法的延伸。在所谓的全球北方，国家边界被推向海外，从传统国家领土的边缘转移到营地、处理和拘留中心。与此同时，国家边界在国家内部扩大，出现在学校、工作场所和公共交通中：边界已经打破(进入)日常生活的结构。然而，这种渗透在边境上的存在并不是没有挑战的；移民倡导团体、支持和接待网络的增长。随着这种对移民管制的抵制不断扩大，向政策制定者、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管制做法的多种做法和政策。然而，到目前为止，这样的工作往往停留在对抵抗的不加批判的描述上。在批判性地审视抵抗本身的“范畴”时，我的工作提供了一种新的方法，将抵抗理解为一种内在的创造性、物质的、有时甚至是不连贯的实践。因此，我的研究提出的问题是，我们如何通过关注创造力，以不同的方式思考阻力。借鉴之前在这一领域(包括英国拘留中心和社区中的寻求庇护者)与从事难民工作的慈善机构所做的工作，这一奖学金将使我能够成功地完成三个目标：1.发表我的博士研究成果。发挥我的公众影响力。将我的研究向前推进，并制定一个项目提案，以便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.