The Figure of the Refugee in 1970s Britain

通过英国难民援助委员会（BCAR）安置乌干达、亚洲、智利和越南难民的工作，本项目将研究1970年代英国难民他者的话语建构。它将把BCAR对语言和图像的使用置于更广泛的国家和媒体主导的辩论中，以研究难民如何成为重新制定和推进英国性叙事的场所。通过将档案资料与口述历史相结合，它将寻求探索植根于难民机构代表的想法如何被折射到公众舆论中。

Through the lens of the British Council for Aid to Refugees' (BCAR) work resettling Ugandan Asian, Chilean, and Vietnamese refugees, this project will study the discursive construction of the refugee Other in 1970s Britain. It will situate the BCAR's use of language and iconography within wider state and media-led debates to examine how refugees became a site for reformulating and advancing narratives of Britishness. By fusing archival sources with oral histories, it will seek to explore how the ideas that rooted institutional representations of refugees were refracted into public opinion.