Reification and the Refugee: Using a Counterposing Dialogical Analysis to Unlock a Frozen Category

Thousands of individuals each year seek refugee status and the question of who can be accepted requires politicians within democracies to seek a public mandate. Unlike other socio-political categories individuals cannot self-identify as refugee; the category must be bureaucratically conferred. There...

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Main Authors: Kesi Mahendran, Nicola Magnusson, Caroline Howarth, Sarah Scuzzarello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/656