| Title | Have You Ever Heard of British Hospitality? Neither Have I |
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| Contributor | Vjosa Musliu (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331.09 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331/chapters/10.11647/obp.0331.09 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Vjosa Musliu |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2023-05-11 |
| Long abstract | “Why do you want to come to my country; are you going to put my entire existence at risk when you do so; how long will you stay; show me how much money you have before I consider letting you in; are you a terrorist; what is your skin colour”. These questions are the very antidote of hospitality. Yet, they are completely normalized in visa application procedures of Western and European countries. In this auto-ethnographic piece I show the impossibility of British hospitality in its visa procedures for nationals of the Global South. Walking the reader through a personal Kafkaesque visa procedure, I reveal how British hospitality is regulated by governmentality and surveillance, organised by a neoliberal economic model and inherently racist. |
| Page range | pp. 83–94 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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| https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331 | Landing page | https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0331.09.pdf | Full text URL | Publisher Website | |
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