TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Carly T1 - They don’t look like children BT - child asylum-seekers, the Dubs amendment and the politics of childhood JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies N2 - 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. KW - Politics of childhood KW - child asylum-seekers KW - innocence KW - humanitarianism; Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1417027 SN - 1369-183X SN - 1469-9451 VL - 44 IS - 11 SP - 1757 EP - 1773 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) N2 - This essay reads Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners (1956) as a milestone in the decolonisation of British fiction. After an introduction to Selvon and the core composition of the novel, it discusses the ways in which the narrative takes on issues of race and racism, how it in the tradition of the Trinidadian carnival confronts audiences with sexual profanation and black masculine swagger, and not least how the novel, especially through its elaborate use of creole Englishes, reimagines London as a West Indian metropolis. The essay then turns more systematically to the ways in which Selvon translates Western literary models and their isolated subject positions into collective modes of narrative performance taken from Caribbean orature and the calypsonian tradition. The Lonely Londoners breathes entirely new life into the ossified conventions of the English novel, and imbues it with unforeseen aesthetic, ethical, political and epistemological possibilities. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103285 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bacskai-Atkari, Julia T1 - Theresa Biberauer a. George Walkden (eds.): Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological, and Information – Structural Interactions / [reviewed by] Julia Bacskai‐Atkari T2 - Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur N2 - Rezensiertes Werk Theresa Biberauer u. George Walkden (Hgg.): Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological, and Information – Structural Interactions - Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 418 S. T2 - Theresa Biberauer u. George Walkden (Hgg.): Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological, and Information – Structural Interactions / [rezensiert von] Julia Bacskai‐Atkari T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 326 Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398015 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Eckstein, Lars ED - Bartels, Anke ED - Wiemann, Dirk ED - Waller, Nicole T1 - Postcolonial Justice: An Introduction T3 - ASNEL papers ; 22 N2 - Postcolonial Justice' addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-90-04-33503-5 PB - Leiden CY - Brill ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Kleine Kosmopolitismen JF - Global Citizenship – Perspektiven einer Weltgemeinschaft Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-95829-211-6 SP - 44 EP - 53 PB - Steidel CY - Göttingen ER -