ABSTRACT
This chapter documents the different ways in which refugee voices are recognised through the projects described. It argues that this empirical evidence supports and empirically develops Axel Honneth's account of recognition as described in Chapter 1. Honneth distinguishes different kinds of recognition—love, rights and solidarity—and this theorisation might usefully be used as a framework to conceptualise empirical data on refugee recognition observed on the ground. As with Chapter 3, the chapter will be organised around different scales in which refugees might experience recognition. It will begin with recognition experienced on a local scale, before moving on to regional and national forms of recognition. On this basis, this chapter argues that European citizens must be careful to ensure that creative projects that aim to give refugees a voice do so in ways that can secure their genuine recognition rather than cause the misrecognition of refugees as described, or indeed mask refugees’ genuine needs with alternatives created by and for values primarily important to the institutions themselves.
