TEACHING HUMANITARIANISM IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

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Class Topic 1 | Introduction to the International Refugee System

Sovereignty, Welcome, and Epistemic Hospitality

Abstract
In 2010, Australian Aboriginal elders and activists began to issue First Nation passports to refugees and asylum seekers detained and deterred under the terms of Australian border security. How might this gesture of welcome be read in light of contending sovereignties at stake? In this talk Anne McNevin reflects on the epistemic conditions that shape the reception of this gesture. Building out from this example, she draws on Indigenous articulations of sovereignty, responsibility and care as sources of theory about hospitality. Examining some of the limits to engaging those ideas in abstraction, she works towards a notion of epistemic hospitality as a way of approaching an exchange of knowledges about hospitality between putative hosts and guests, and across the putative terrain of the Global North and South.
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00:00 Sawyer Seminar Introduction
07:33 Introduction: Sovereignty, Welcome, and Epistemic Hospitality
08:03 Recognition of the Indigeneous Lenape, Wurundjeri and Coast Salish Peoples
10:08 Australia’s Pacific Solution, “humanitarian” border control, and offshore detention camps
12:21 First Nation Passports, refugees and epistemic hospitality
14:58 Beyond Eurocentric forms of humanitarianism
20:41 Decolonizing strategies and First Nations passports as a tactic
27:37 Indigenous sovereignty and hospitality
31:31 Manus Island, Indigeneous critiques of sovereignty, responsibility
39:44 Concluding remarks: Hospitality, migration, and care in settler-colonial contexts
​41:07 Q&A
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Recommended Assignments
Anne McNevin and Antje Missbach, "Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen)," Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 31, No. 3, 292–313. (Link)