Author(s)
Casco Solís, SaraContributor(s)
Fraile Marcos, Ana MaríaKeywords
Hill, LawrenceThe illegal
Canadian imaginary
Precarious
Refugee
Asylum seekers
Non-status migrants
Hospitality
Civil rights
Nation-state
Citizenship
Vulnerable subjects
Resilience
Invisibility
Migration
Empowerment
Illegal
Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Literature
Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Social anthropology/ethnography::Social anthropology
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Trabajo de fin de Grado. Grado en Estudios Ingleses. Curso académico 2015-2016[EN]This paper examines the precarious conditions endured by defenceless refugee seekers 
 impelled to risk their lives in other countries. Lawrence Hill emphasizes the role of literature 
 as an effective means to portray an extremely current situation in the world. In his recent 
 novel, The Illegal, Hill depicts the hardships and mistreatment of non-status refugees who are 
 deprived of their civil rights as human beings. While becoming vulnerable subjects at the 
 mercy of the wealthy, asylum seekers are treated as inferior beings without dignity and 
 identity. In the novel, non-status refugees become invisible and dependent subjects without a 
 voice in a strange land. However, Hill turns this inhumane life of humiliation into one of 
 empowerment by portraying a character, Keita Ali, who is able to survive in a strange land 
 where his presence is considered illegal. [ES]En este ensayo se examinan las condiciones de precariedad sufridas por refugiados 
 indefensos y carentes de estatus social que arriesgan sus vidas en otros países. Lawrence Hill 
 trata de destacar el rol de la literatura como un medio eficaz para la representación de una 
 situación muy actual hoy en día. En su última novela, The Illegal, Hill muestra las 
 adversidades, el maltrato y el abuso que reciben diariamente los refugiados sin estatus tras ser 
 privados de sus derechos civiles como seres humanos. De esta manera, se convierten en 
 sujetos vulnerables a merced de las personas acomodadas, quienes los tratan como seres 
 inferiores sin dignidad e identidad. En la novela, los refugiados son personas invisibles y 
 dependientes sin derecho a revelarse. Sin embargo, Hill desafía esa vida inhumana y 
 humillante a través del personaje de Keita Ali, capaz de sobrevivir en un lugar desconocido 
 donde su presencia es considerada ilegal.
Date
2017-12-12Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesisIdentifier
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