Abstract
Until recently, studies of hospitality have been less prominent within the broader context of studies of global mobilities. Yet, both are entangled. In this special section of the Journal of Sociology, we explore the effects of narratives of ‘migration crisis’ or ‘refugee crisis’ in contemporary, intersected global and local politics and studies of hospitality. In doing so, contributors bring hospitality and mobility studies into closer dialogue by turning their attention to the dilemmas of intimate life and refugee hosting.
Highlights
Until recently, studies of hospitality have been less prominent within the broader context of studies of global mobilities
There can be no discussion of hospitality without recognition of the movement of subjects across borders, and a discussion of mobility without attention to practices of reception, hospitality and hostility cannot capture the socio-political impacts of human migration in host countries
2016) and led to increased policing of already tightly securitised European borders. In this special section of the Journal of Sociology, we explore the effects of narratives of ‘migration crisis’ or ‘refugee crisis’ in contemporary, intersected global and local politics and studies of hospitality
Summary
Studies of hospitality have been less prominent within the broader context of studies of global mobilities. While the support and care for displaced people and grief for the suffering and death of unknown others offers a challenge to the xenophobia that underpins the current European border regime (Danewid, 2017; Liebsch and Goodwin, 2016), a decolonising approach offers insight into how refugees’ (im)mobilities on the one hand, and the hospitality practices of the hosts on the other, are intimately intertwined with genealogies of global colonial relations (Picozza, 2021; Wolfe, 2016).
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