“It’s ok if it’s hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales
Parker, Samuel (2018) “It’s ok if it’s hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 28. pp. 111-122.
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Abstract
Wales has a long history of migration, however the introduction of dispersed asylum seekers in 2001 has led to Wales becoming a more superdiverse nation. Wales has often been positioned as a more ‘tolerant nation’ than England, however the increasingly superdiverse nature of Wales in a post-devolution era may now be calling this tolerance thesis into question. Models of refugee and asylum seeker integration suggest that the absence of racism plays a key role in integration. This paper reports the findings of research which centres on refugee and asylum seeker integration in Wales. 19 interviews were conducted with refugees and asylum seekers who had been living in Wales for between 1 month and 12 years. Each interview was analysed using a discursive psychology approach. In this paper I show that the interviewees appeared to negotiate a dilemma when talking about experiencing potentially racist incidents within the interviews, constructing them as trivial so as not to appear critical of the protection they have received in Wales. The findings also highlight the more everyday and banal forms of racism that are regularly experienced by refugee and asylum seekers living in Wales.
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| Subjects: | CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Psychology | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Samuel Parker | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2019 14:14 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2022 11:39 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7963 |
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