Seeking Refuge, Resisting beyond Borders: On Security, Recognition and Rights in Dina Nayeri’s Refuge and The Ungrateful Refugee

Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI:10.3390/h13010035
Maria Jennifer Estevez Yanes
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This article examines the nuanced discourse of hospitality in Dina Nayeri’s works Refuge (2017) and The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), attending to the ethics of interdependency that transcend beyond borders of different natures. By making the limits of hospitality evident, both texts bring forth the ethical implications beyond borders that are present in opposing, yet equally significant paradigms: security and danger—depending on whose interests prevail; recognition and non-recognition—attending to the precarious conditions that potential guests are requested to endure or fulfil to be acknowledged and hosted; and rights and duties—considering borders as exclusive and independent rather than as contact zones. Following Jacques Derrida (2000) Jeffrey Clapp and Emily Ridge (2016), and Judith Butler (2009, 2015, 2016), among others, I will consider the complexities of locating home after forced displacement and the (dis)connection between belonging and identity. In both of Nayeri’s works, the direct experience of displacement becomes key to understanding the need for refuge in the recreation of a home-like experience beyond home and borders. This is particularly evident in the negotiated spaces of vulnerability and resistance that refugees inhabit.
寻求庇护,超越边界:Dina Nayeri 的《难民》和《忘恩负义的难民》中的安全、认可和权利
本文研究了迪娜-纳耶里的作品《难民》(2017)和《忘恩负义的难民》(2019)中细致入微的好客话语,关注超越不同性质边界的相互依存伦理。通过明确好客的局限性,两部作品都提出了超越边界的伦理意义,这些意义存在于对立但同样重要的范式中:安全与危险--取决于谁的利益占上风;承认与不承认--关注潜在客人被要求忍受或满足的不稳定条件,以获得承认和接待;权利与义务--将边界视为排他性的独立区域,而非接触区。继雅克-德里达(2000 年)、杰弗里-克莱普和艾米丽-里奇(2016 年)以及朱迪斯-巴特勒(2009 年、2015 年、2016 年)等人之后,我将考虑被迫流离失所后寻找家园的复杂性,以及归属感与身份之间的(不)联系。在纳耶里的两部作品中,流离失所的直接经验成为理解避难需求的关键,即在家园和边界之外再现类似家园的体验。这一点在难民所居住的脆弱和反抗的协商空间中尤为明显。
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