Naslov
Hostipitality in Post - War Society

Autori
Lana Pavić

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners: The Politics of Othering from Migrants to Corporations

Urednik/ci
Sonnis - Bell, Marissa ; Elijah - Bell, David ; Ryan, Michelle

Izdavač
Brill ; Rodopi

Grad
Leiden : Boston (MA)

Godina
2018

Raspon stranica
47-58

ISBN
978-90-04-38310-4

ISSN
1570-7113

Ključne riječi
hospitality, hostipitality, migrant, stranger, asylum seeker, refugee

Sažetak
Following the theoretical path of hospitality – a principle strongly marked by its aporia from antiquity until present, this paper examines the contemporary problem of hospitality towards migrant strangers, from the perspective of Croatian political practice. Croatia, as a society that has for centuries produced economic and political migrants, is the only EU state with recent experience of serious warfare. The Homeland War (1991–1995) has made hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people and refugees. Nonetheless, social experience of displacement did not make contemporary Croatian policy more inclined towards asylum seekers and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. In late summer 2015, Croatia was confronted with daily flow of thousands of migrants on their way to Germany and Scandinavia. Even though the left-liberal government at the time, in cooperation with the group of civil society organisations, answered humanely and provided corridors, food and medical help, dominant public opinion called for more caution and closure of the borders. These acts of both hospitality and hostility provoke "hostipitality", a theoretical and practical concept that disables true acceptance of Others – strangers migrants in need.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Filozofija

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