ABSTRACT

Where do refugees belong? Who is responsible for the safety, welfare and happiness of migrants seeking refuge? And what constitutes a ‘right and proper’ response to refugee migration? In this paper, I explore one civic organization’s approach to answering these questions. LocalHouse is a volunteer organisation that provides support to refugees arriving in Wattle City, Australia. The aim, for LocalHouse, is not only to overcome the ‘barriers’ to settlement, but to develop a sense that one belongs in the city. Elaborating Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the ‘refrain’ as a territorial assemblage, I chart how LocalHouse produces a historically and geographically contingent form of care as a territorial force in the city. Particular working arrangements of care are made more or less possible through LocalHouse-as-refrain, which centre around their ethos of ‘friendship-based support’. Understanding refugee resettlement in this way, we can see it is not about absorbing difference into an already existing social body, but something significantly more processual, dynamic and iterative. It involves establishing a provisional space, through repeated movements and expressive marks, in which particular ways of understanding, doing and feeling care are sustained.

摘要

难民属于哪里？谁来为寻求避难的移民的安全、福利和幸福负责？什么是对难民迁移的“正确和适当”的回应？在本文中，我探讨了一个公民组织回答这些问题的方法。LocalHouse 是一个志愿者组织，为抵达澳大利亚沃特城的难民提供支持。LocalHouse 的目标不仅是要克服定居的“障碍”，还要培养一种归属于城市的感觉。详细阐述德勒兹和加塔里将“副歌”视为领土集合的概念，我描绘了 LocalHouse 如何在城市中产生一种历史和地理上偶然的关怀形式作为领土力量。通过 LocalHouse-as-refrain 或多或少地使特定的护理工作安排成为可能，围绕他们的“基于友谊的支持”的精神。以这种方式理解难民安置，我们可以看到它不是将差异吸收到一个已经存在的社会主体中，而是一种更具过程性、动态性和迭代性的东西。它涉及通过重复的动作和表达标记建立一个临时空间，在其中维持特定的理解、做事和感受关怀的方式。