@article{McLaughlin2017, author = {McLaughlin, Carly}, title = {They don't look like children}, series = {Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies}, volume = {44}, journal = {Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies}, number = {11}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1369-183X}, doi = {10.1080/1369183X.2017.1417027}, pages = {1757 -- 1773}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In October 2016, following a campaign led by Labour Peer Lord Alfred Dubs, the first child asylum-seekers allowed entry to the UK under new legislation (the 'Dubs amendment') arrived in England. Their arrival was captured by a heavy media presence, and very quickly doubts were raised by right-wing tabloids and politicians about their age. In this article, I explore the arguments underpinning the Dubs campaign and the media coverage of the children's arrival as a starting point for interrogating representational practices around children who seek asylum. I illustrate how the campaign was premised on a universal politics of childhood that inadvertently laid down the terms on which these children would be given protection, namely their innocence. The universality of childhood fuels public sympathy for child asylum-seekers, underlies the 'child first, migrant second' approach advocated by humanitarian organisations, and it was a key argument in the 'Dubs amendment'. Yet the campaign highlights how representations of child asylum-seekers rely on codes that operate to identify 'unchildlike' children. As I show, in the context of the criminalisation of undocumented migrants', childhood is no longer a stable category which guarantees protection, but is subject to scrutiny and suspicion and can, ultimately, be disproved.}, language = {en} } @book{Widdau2011, author = {Widdau, Christoph Sebastian}, title = {Kennen Sie Randegg?}, edition = {2. Auflage}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-116-5}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49868}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {41}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Seit seiner ber{\"u}hmt-ber{\"u}chtigten Friedenspreisrede von 1998 nimmt die Anzahl der literaturwissenschaftlichen und -politischen Publikationen, die Martin Walsers Werk eine nationalistische und antisemitische Tendenz unterstellen, zu. Bisweilen wird behauptet, Walser suche {\"u}ber die Ausschließung des J{\"u}dischen das Nationale zu st{\"a}rken und postuliere die Unvers{\"o}hnlichkeit von T{\"a}tergemeinschaft und Opfergemeinschaft nach 1945. Das bislang in der Forschung wenig beachtete H{\"o}rspiel „Das Gespenst von Gattnau" l{\"a}sst die Annahme einer anderen Tendenz zu: die Tendenz zur Vers{\"o}hnung.}, language = {de} } @book{Widdau2010, author = {Widdau, Christoph Sebastian}, title = {Kennen Sie Randegg?}, isbn = {978-3-86956-077-9}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-44788}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Seit seiner ber{\"u}hmt-ber{\"u}chtigten Friedenspreisrede von 1998 nimmt die Anzahl der literaturwissenschaftlichen und -politischen Publikationen, die Martin Walsers Werk eine nationalistische und antisemitische Tendenz unterstellen, zu. Bisweilen wird Walser unterstellt, er suche {\"u}ber die Ausschließung des J{\"u}dischen das Nationale zu st{\"a}rken und behaupte die Unvers{\"o}hnlichkeit von T{\"a}tergemeinschaft und Opfergemeinschaft nach 1945. Das bislang in der Forschung wenig beachtete H{\"o}rspiel "Das Gespenst von Gattnau" l{\"a}sst die Annahme einer anderen Tendenz zu: die Tendenz zur Vers{\"o}hnung.}, language = {de} }