Bauman as a refugee
We should not call refugees 'migrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4480985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Wagner (0000-0002-6521-0477, Collegium Civitas, corresponding author), Izabela Wagner-Saffray (Collegium Civitas, Poland; Institut Convergences Migration, France) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 156 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-117 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513619899499 |
| OpenAlex | W2998837135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper claims that Bauman's personal experiences deeply shaped his work. In the first part, I draw upon my own research, combining archive documents and interviews data, as well as - for the very first time - details taken from Zygmunt Bauman's own unpublished autobiography, accessed courtesy of the Zygmunt and Janina Bauman Archive project at the University of Leeds. The second part of the paper draws upon my wider ethnographical study into the lived experiences of asylum seekers, conducted between 2017 and 2019 in Southern Europe. I focus here upon their experience of escape and their present life conditions in order to highlight important parallels with Bauman's own experiences as a refugee. The conclusion draws both cases together in order to understand a less overt aspect of Bauman's sociology and to claim that the term 'migrant' is both discriminatory and, in academic terms, incorrect. I argue that this diagnosis is reinforced further by the voices of intellectuals who themselves experienced the status of refugees: namely, Zygmunt Bauman and Hannah Arendt
Biography · Courtesy · Ethnography · Media studies · Order (exchange · Parallels · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |