par Van Neste-Gottignies, Amandine ;Mistiaen, Valériane Marie
Référence 1st Annual CESSMIR Conference: Needs and Care Practices for Refugees and Migrants (17-19-09-2018: CESSMIR, Gent University)
Publication Non publié, 2018-09-19
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : This presentation studies the relation of communication constructed between the Belgian Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) and asylum seekers during the reception period. This research is the continuation of a previous study (Van Neste-Gottignies and Mistiaen, forthcoming 2018) revealing that Fedasil communication to asylum seekers is hardly visible. Asylum seekers are found to experience ‘information precarity’ (Wall et al. 2015). Although the ‘invisibility’ of reception discourses seems to prevail, there is an exception: communication regarding voluntary return programmes. This article aims to understand more deeply how and why this communication is predominant. We adopted a multi-site approach that combines various survey methods conducted between 2014 and 2017 with Corpus Linguistics tools. Our main finding lies in the differentiation of treatments according to asylum seekers’ country of origin. These differences seem to match the representation of the ‘legitimate refugee’ versus the ‘illegitimate refugee’.