“Let’s help our own”

• Published in: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
• Main Author: Carmela Murdocca
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Basque; French; Portuguese
• Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2024
• Subjects: humanitarian governance; settler colonialism; indigenous; syrian refugees; canada; Social legislation; K7585-7595; Attawapiskat
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1067; https://doaj.org/article/2ad9e9b8100b4aa4b3bee5138a736e35

This article explores narratives of humanitarian compassion as rendered intelligible through the relational intersecting concerns about Syrian refugees and the suicide crisis in the Indigenous community of Attawapiskat, Ontario. Fuelled by a combination of anti-refugee rhetoric, racism and ongoing c...