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Article Dans Une Revue European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology Année : 2021

Impacts of political and social contexts on refugees’ experiences: A comparison between Southeast Asian refugees arriving in France in the 70’s and recent refugee migration

Isabelle Wilhelm
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Anja Bartel
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Résumé

The influx of refugees into France since 2015 has been framed as a crisis and marked by a restrictive turn in arrival and asylum policies. By comparison, in the 1970s Southeast Asian refugees fleeing from communist regimes were welcomed warmly in the country. This article compares two in-depth case studies of refugees, analysed using the biographical policy evaluation method, to retrace how the policies and collective representations of these two different historical moments affect the experiences of refugees over time. It shows that policies play a significant role in shaping refugees’ experiences in respect of their access to papers, housing, language courses and work, thus impacting, but not determining, their possibilities of reconstructing life in exile. The comparison also raises the question of how personal experiences of arrival, viewed as a rejection or a welcome, influence refugees’ life courses.

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Sociologie

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hal-03998098 , version 1 (20-02-2023)

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Isabelle Wilhelm, Anja Bartel. Impacts of political and social contexts on refugees’ experiences: A comparison between Southeast Asian refugees arriving in France in the 70’s and recent refugee migration. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2021, pp.1-21. ⟨10.1080/23254823.2021.1954045⟩. ⟨hal-03998098⟩

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