'Gimme Shelter': The 'othering' of refugees in forming identity in Australia and New Zealand

Kolesova, Elena; Allen, M.

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2016-11
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Kolesova, E., & Allen, M. (2016, November). "Gimme Shelter": The "othering" of refugees in forming identity in Australia and New Zealand. Paper presented at Performing Precarity: Refugee Representation, Determination and Discourse, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Abstract
Questions to consider: How are refugees perceived in Australia and New Zealand (historically and currently)? How does ‘othering’ refugees influence how we contruct ideas of who ‘we’ are? How does Edward Said’s Orientalism speak to the notion of ‘othering’ in the current context?
Keywords:
refugees, identity, Other (Philosophy), Gimme Shelter Project (Unitec Institute of Technology), Said, Edward (1935-2003)
ANZSRC Field of Research:
160303 Migration, 160510 Public Policy
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