Last Word: What does �hospitality� really mean?
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2018
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Duke University Press
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Last year I filled out an endless number of
forms on the internet and had my photo taken
this way for an American visa, that way for a
Schengen one, another way for Britain. I stood
in queues to gather freshly stamped documents
from my bank, certificates from the revenue
service, municipal verification that I own property,
a letter confirming my long-term employment,
payment slips, certificates of health,
insurance, and so on. During face-to-face interviews
I felt as if every government agent wanted
to tell me: We know you�you sly, diseased, and
poverty-stricken person, wanting permission to
come and sponge off our social security system,
to abuse our precious freedoms with your fundamentalist
ideas, and to infect our population
with your third-world unworthiness.
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Krog, A. (2018). Last Word: What does �hospitality� really mean. World Policy Journal, 35 (1): 115-117