So, I now have the beginnings of some content for the blog - a growing list of really great links, plus several news feeds from some of my favourite sources on asylum and refugee issues. The feed from Phillipe Legrain (author of Immigrants Your Country Needs Them, 2006 is concerned with immigration more generally rather than asylum and refugee issues. It's necessary in my view though, to engage with the broader network of ideas which surround and construct asylum discourse in order to properly explore it, so I feel quite justified in including this. Legrain's interventions are often really interesting and they tend to generate political debate.
The blog is now also now linked to my Facebook profile and because of this, a few people have let me know that they've noticed it...which means that this blogging Asylum in the Media business suddenly feels a bit more real! Asylum in the Media has the beginnings of 'a public'...admittedly it's actually just my friends so far... but then it's quality, and not necessarily quantity that counts... and it is very early doors after all.
Right, that's quite enough introversion and shameless self-aggrandising. Next post soon to follow - hopefully including a bit more substance and a bit less of the patter.
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