Tourism and refugee-crisis intersections: co-creating tour guide experiences in Leeds, England

Forcibly displaced people like refugees and asylum-seekers can be socio-culturally integrated in receiving societies through tourism. Our poststructuralist approach to ethics explains this potential as we combine three concepts: Zygmunt Bauman’s “strangerhood”, Emmanuel Levinas’ “ethical responsibility”, Jacques Derrida’s “hostipitality”. We draw on the initiative of a social enterprise English city Leeds which encourages contribute tour-guides. During 2017 2019 conducted in-depth individual focus-group interviews with refugees, asylum-seekers, public sector stakeholders examine integration via Findings highlight that contributing tourism sector, are provided meaningful platform for self-representation moving beyond tokenistic notions participation, become co-creators diverse inclusive societies.