Who counts as a refugee?

The words 'refugee' and 'asylum seeker' have a wide variety of connotations in Britain, many of them negative. This free course, Who counts as a refugee?, explores how changing social policy and terminology help to shape, and are shaped by, the experiences of people seeking asylum in the UK.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 The aspects and meanings of citizenship
• 1 The aspects and meanings of citizenship
• 2 Personal lives
• 2 Personal lives
• 3 Social policy and citizenship
• 3 Social policy and citizenship
• 4 Refugees, asylum seekers and citizenship
• 4 Refugees, asylum seekers and citizenship
• 4.1 The context and significance of the historical moments under consideration
• 4.2 Feminist perspectives: who counts as a refugee?
• 5 Citizenship, identity and belonging
• 5 Citizenship, identity and belonging
• 5.1 Post-structuralist perspectives: the production of social meaning
• 5.2 National identity and diasporic citizenship
• 5.3 Legal status and belonging
• 5.3. 1 What would you include in such a test?
• 6 Citizenship and access to welfare
• 6 Citizenship and access to welfare
• 6.1 ‘Maybe you can look, but you cannot touch’: asylum and restricting access to welfare
• 6.2 ‘No-choice’ dispersal
• 6.3 Shopping with ‘vouchers’
• 7 Citizenship as ‘participation in social life’
• 7 Citizenship as ‘participation in social life’
• 8 Knowledge and evidence
• 8 Knowledge and evidence
• 8.1 How is ‘knowledge’ about refugees and asylum seekers produced and reproduced?
• 8.1.1 What kind of evidence has been used in this course?
• 8.1.2Why do you think the Home Secretary did not draw on this research when interpreting the asylum statistics presented in the February 2003 press release?
• 9 Conclusion
• 9 Conclusion
• 10 Further resources
• 10 Further resources
• References
• Acknowledgements