TY - JOUR
T1 - Ebola’s Would-be Refugees
T2 - Performing Fear and Navigating Asylum During a Public Health Emergency
AU - Lawrance, Benjamin N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2018/8/18
Y1 - 2018/8/18
N2 - Chronic and acute illnesses sit uncomfortably with asylum claiming and refugee mobilities. The story of a Sierra Leonean, an athlete who feared Ebola and sought refuge in the UK, provides an opening to examine protection discourses that invoke fear, trauma, and crisis metaphors, to understand how asylum claims are performed, and how related petitions are adjudicated during public health emergencies of international concern. Ebola is revealed as a novel claim strategy, and thus a useful subject matter to investigate the shifting modalities of migrant agency, the unstable fabric of medical humanitarianism, and knowledge production in moments of exceptionality.
AB - Chronic and acute illnesses sit uncomfortably with asylum claiming and refugee mobilities. The story of a Sierra Leonean, an athlete who feared Ebola and sought refuge in the UK, provides an opening to examine protection discourses that invoke fear, trauma, and crisis metaphors, to understand how asylum claims are performed, and how related petitions are adjudicated during public health emergencies of international concern. Ebola is revealed as a novel claim strategy, and thus a useful subject matter to investigate the shifting modalities of migrant agency, the unstable fabric of medical humanitarianism, and knowledge production in moments of exceptionality.
KW - Ebola
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - United Kingdom
KW - public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)
KW - refugees/asylum
KW - trauma
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U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2018.1457660
DO - 10.1080/01459740.2018.1457660
M3 - Article
C2 - 29677461
SN - 0145-9740
VL - 37
SP - 514
EP - 532
JO - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
JF - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
IS - 6
ER -