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Article published In: X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves
[Linguistic Landscape 5:2] 2019
► pp. 142–159

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Regimes of voice and visibility in the refugeescape

A semiotic landscape approach

 | University of Limerick
Published online: 22 July 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.19002.mor
Abstract
This paper proposes refugeescapes as a framework for expanding the focus of semiotic landscape studies by centering migration, inequality, and social exclusion. In so doing, the article adds to the work of Mpendukana, S. & Stroud, C. 2018. Of monkeys, shacks and loos: Changing times, changing places. In Peck, A., Stroud, C. & Williams, Q. (Eds.), Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes (pp. 183–200). London: Bloomsbury Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar and Kerfoot, C. & Hytlenstam, K. (Eds.), 2017. Entangled Discourses: South-North Orders of Visibility. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar in uncovering how place is structured by issues of affect, voice, and visibility. In my paper, I turn to a case study of the spatializing practices of refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland, and the ways they counteract the mainstream semiotic mediation of their experiences. In particular, I focus on the semiotic landscapes of transgressive intent where asylum seekers address mistreatment in their host country. By examining material produced by refugees and asylum seekers themselves, my paper demonstrates how enclosed spaces are a methodological venue for the field, while arguing also for a more thorough engagement with the theory and politics of visibility/voice.
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Molann an páipéar seo go mbeadh dídeanaithe mar chreat chun fócas staidéar tírdhreacha semiotach a leathnú trí imirce, éagothroime agus eisiamh sóisialta a lárnú. Le linn an méid sin a dhéanamh, cuireann an t-alt le hobair Mpendukana, S. & Stroud, C. 2018. Of monkeys, shacks and loos: Changing times, changing places. In Peck, A., Stroud, C. & Williams, Q. (Eds.), Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes (pp. 183–200). London: Bloomsbury Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar agus Kerfoot, C. & Hytlenstam, K. (Eds.), 2017. Entangled Discourses: South-North Orders of Visibility. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar chun an chaoi a ndéantar áit a struchtúrú le saincheisteanna tionchair, gutha agus infheictheachta a nochtadh. I mo pháipéar, casaim ar chás-staidéar ar chleachtais spásánaithe dídeanaithe agus iarrthóirí tearmainn in Éirinn, agus ar na bealaí ina ndéanann siad gníomhú in aghaidh idirghabháil phríomhshruthach na n-eispéiris. Go háirithe, dírím ar na tírdhreacha semioticeacha a bhfuil rún trasghearrtha acu nuair a thugann iarrthóirí tearmainn aghaidh ar mhí-úsáid ina dtír aíochta. Trí scrúdú a dhéanamh ar ábhar a tháirgeann dídeanaithe agus iarrthóirí tearmainn iad féin, taispeánann mo pháipéar conas is spás modheolaíochta don réimse iad spásanna faoi iamh, agus ag an am céanna ag argóint freisin le haghaidh rannpháirtíocht níos críochnúla le teoiric agus le polaitíocht infheictheachta / gutha.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Outlining the refugeescape
  • 3.Transgressive semiotic landscaping: Bottom-up social activism
  • 4.Case Study: Transgressive Semiotic landscaping as resistance to Ireland’s Direct Provision Policy
    • 4.1Direct provision
    • 4.2Transgressive semiotic landscaping in the arrival domain
      • 4.2.1Asylum archive
      • 4.2.2End DP
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
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