This paper is an analysis of the plasticity of love and its appropriation as an effective strategy for those in power to deal with the refugee crisis. It contends that a contextualization of love is needed to point to some of the ways in which love’s plasticity is employed to combat refugee uprisings. Through an analysis of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Sharon Bala’s The Boat People (2018), this paper demonstrates how the ruling governments, of different contexts, either overtly or covertly, resort to politicizing love in order to defuse tensions between refugees and “insiders”.

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在途中的爱情：莫辛·哈米德（Mohsin Hamid）的西出口和莎朗·巴拉（Sharon Bala）的《船民》中的爱情可塑性

本文分析了爱的可塑性及其挪用，将其作为当权者应对难民危机的有效策略。它认为，需要对爱进行情境化，以指出利用爱的可塑性来抵抗难民起义的某些方式。通过对Mohsin Hamid的Exit West（2017）和Sharon Bala的The Boat People（2018）进行的分析，本文证明了不同背景下的执政政府如何公开或秘密地将爱政治化，以化解难民和“内部人员”。