Who counts as a refugee?: Online Course from OpenLearn

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 ...

Syllabus

- 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
- References
- Acknowledgements

Who counts as a refugee?

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