During the time period in Germany history from 1989-1990 known as the Wende, activist writing, movies, and mass protests highlighted the exclusion of racial minorities from Germany's unity story. These activists decried the racial violence and scapegoating that followed the mass…
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In a global asylum system that is increasingly hostile to refugees, queer Middle Eastern refugee narratives undeniably do political work. In this thesis, I examine three overlapping discursive sites—testimony, popular news stories, and memoir—where queer Middle Eastern refugee n…
On 20th July 2001, the Council Directive 2001/55/EC on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences…
Global estimates suggest 20 million children from hundreds of different countries and cultures are currently displaced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced persons (USCR, 2000). Each year hundreds of thousands of children are resettled in second or third countrie…
This thesis sits at the nexus of three important contemporary issues: health, migration and ageing. A growing literature problematises the UK's current restrictive approach to immigration, whilst concurrent health research increasingly recognises that exile environments determin…
Issues concerning immigration and asylum have attracted considerable news media coverage in countries of the Global North such as the United Kingdom during recent decades. The UK national press famous for its longevity, mass appeal and partisanship has been uniquely placed to re…
Post-reunification developments in German society, including the intensification of racism andnationalism, and the question of German identity, have led to a wide-ranging internationaldebate. My thesis discusses some of the controversial issues and arguments raised, in an effort…
This thesis looks at justice and home affairs (JHA) policy-making in the European Union(EU). JHA refers to those areas which have traditionally been the domain of interior andjustice ministries on the national level and which are now dealt with on the EU level on thebasis of the…
This dissertation examines the role of the Bosnian refugee crisis in generating support within EU Member States for a centralized, EU-level asylum policy after the 1992-95 Bosnian war. As the Bosnian war occurred on the heels of the Cold War and the signing of the Maastricht Tre…
Since 1994, an increasing number of persons fleeing persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender request asylum in the United States, yet few empirical studies explore their experiences from flight through resettlement. Muslims in these categories, shouldering the ad…
This thesis is focused on The Psychogram newsletter, which was a periodical that ran from 1916–1977 at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey. Patients played a role in every facet of its production. It provided the reader with information regarding the…
This dissertation provides three studies on the state’s treatment of noncitizens in the United States, focusing on two groups in particular: asylum seekers and farmworkers. Together, these three chapters probe decisionmaking in each branch of the government, with particular atte…
The practice of seeking asylum at sacred places has a rich and varied history. When John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, entered into that history in 399 C.E. by sheltering the fallen consul eunuch Eutropius, he provided a fascinating lens through which to view the custom …
This dissertation examines how the experiences of patients in nineteenth-century American asylums were portrayed in first-hand accounts, contemporary journalistic exposés, and popular fiction. Together, these portrayals created a counternarrative of discontent and skepticism tha…
Institutional bioarchaeology is a growing sub-field within bioarchaeology, particularly social bioarchaeology as informed by the biocultural approach. However, the majority of studies in this vein have primarily addressed English-speaking contexts, to include analyses of institu…
The evolution of immigration law in the United States represents a unique history of exclusion based along lines of race, reaction and capital. This history has become all the more relevant in our contemporary age of anti-immigrant rhetoric with new forms of restrictionist legis…