Context Flashcards
(39 cards)
What is the ‘Good Immigrant’?
An immigrant that respects rules and regulations of a host community.
What is the American Dream?
The freedom and opportunity to succeed and attain a better life.
What is colonialism?
The idea that the ways of the west were better than the colonised.
What is Edward Said’s theory?
Theory of otherness - “the other is everything that lies outside of the self”
What is orientalism?
How the East is stereotyped and dominated by Western cultures.
What happened to the Windrush Generation after 50 years?
Faced deportation, regardless of being invited to the UK to help rebuild the country.
What did Hubert Leslie say?
“I feel like an alien in this country”.
What did Theresa May do to the UK’s environment?
“hostile environment was created to expel illegal immigrants”.
What was the Windrush?
In 1948, the mass migration of Caribbean immigrants to the UK began.
What did the labour exchange promise?
That they would navigate jobs for immigrants within days, if they were employable.
What does the speaker of ‘Our Jamaican Problem’ reassure “white workers” about?
“There is work for all. Coloured and white”.
What does Hortense’s “just this?…just this?” reaction connote to?
The naive immigrant, who remained unaware of the “acute housing problem”, which left 10000 immigrants waiting for homes.
What does ‘Our Jamaican Problem’ label the West Indies?
“gay sunlit islands, a tourist paradise” - connotes to impermanence and colonialism.
What did Bill Stratton say was the immigrants of the Wind rush’s main aim in Britain?
To be “completely happy and cooperative with the British people”.
What view does Dalia Mogahed reflect upon in her TED talk?
Viewing muslims as “an airport security line delay”.
What percentage of news coverage about muslims is negative?
80%
What was Dalia Mogahed asked by her friends when she began practicing Islam?
“Why are you oppressing yourself?”
What does Dalia Mogahed label the process of converting to Islam?
“slow surrender” - links to assimilation process in Small Island & Changez’ gradual acceptance of own culture or surrender to american culture.
What did Dalia Mogahed say about 9/11 on her status in an american society?
turned her from a “citizen to a suspect”
What was Dalia Mogahed’s tumour analogy?
Muslims, post-9/11, were viewed as “a tumour in the body of America…malignant or benign”
She instead proposed that muslims are instead a “vital organ”
What does Dalia Mogahed label Islamophobia as?
“a tool for public manipulation”.
What genre does Jean Mattern label RF?
“magic realism”
What does Mohsin Hamid say about identity?
“To be a human being and to be a hybrid being are the same thing.”
Define ‘immigrant’
someone who migrates to a country with the intention of settling in it
