Enacting Cosmopolitanism: Postcolonial Performances of 'European' Care for Asylum-Seekers in Reykjavík, Iceland

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dc.contributorMorgan, Lynn
dc.contributorHouston, Serin
dc.contributor.advisorBabül, Elif
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Leora
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-12T21:07:05Z
dc.date.available2017-05-12T21:07:05Z
dc.date.gradyear2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-05-12
dc.description.abstractThis thesis, based on the presenter’s fieldwork in Reykjavík, Iceland from May-July 2016, brings ethnographic evidence into conversation with anthropological scholars on humanitarianism, activism, migration, and cosmopolitanism. This work traces Iceland’s involvement with the 1951 UNHCR Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and the European Commission’s Dublin Regulation as, respectively, universalist and nationalist models for modern membership in a globally connected society. Specifically, this work examines the engagement of Laugarneskirkja (an Icelandic Lutheran church) with asylum-seekers as well as the activists and activisms of Andrými (the Icelandic chapter of No Borders International) as ways to understand a contemporary Icelandic interaction with displaced peoples as part of Iceland’s national cultural narrative.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSociology & Anthropologyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/4023
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedrestricteden_US
dc.subjectIcelanden_US
dc.subjectcosmopolitanismen_US
dc.subjectpostcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectintegrationen_US
dc.subjectEuropeen_US
dc.titleEnacting Cosmopolitanism: Postcolonial Performances of 'European' Care for Asylum-Seekers in Reykjavík, Icelanden_US
dc.typeThesis
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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