The narrative assemblage of civil society interventions into refugee and asylum policy debates in the UK

Abstract

This article explores how pro-refugee civil society organisations discursively navigate the challenges of influencing policy in contexts that are largely hostile to their perspective, and the tensions implicit in doing so. It draws on rich documentary data to present an analysis of the policy narratives of seven case study organisations in the UK. Through this analysis, the article argues that these narratives form an 'assemblage' of discursive conformity to and contestation of the dominant construction of the policy problem, with the organisations concurrently positioned both as experts in the field and as facilitating expert knowledge transfer from refugees themselves. It is through this assemblage that the organisations negotiate the dilemmas arising from their largely adversarial positioning in the policy debate.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204080518X15265487191463
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy
Additional Information: Copyright The Policy Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Voluntary Sector Review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Tonkiss, K. (2018) The narrative assemblage of civil society interventions into refugee and asylum policy debates in the UK, Voluntary Sector Review, vol 9, no 2, 119–35, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204080518X15265487191463
Uncontrolled Keywords: Assemblage,Civil society,Policy narratives,Refugees,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Publication ISSN: 2040-8064
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2024 08:14
Date Deposited: 18 Apr 2018 08:50
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-07-01
Published Online Date: 2018-06-25
Accepted Date: 2018-04-16
Authors: Tonkiss, Katherine (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0671-3357)

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