Departures An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies
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Biografisk notat
The Critical Refugee Studies Collective is a group of interdisciplinary scholars who advocate for and envision a world where refugee rights are human rights. Committed to community-engaged scholarship, the Collective charts and builds the field of critical refugee studies by centering refugee lives—and the creative and critical potentiality that such lives offer. In addition to studying refugees, many Collective members are themselves refugees with long and deep ties to refugee communities in California and beyond."<i>Departures</i> works best as a critical manifesto ‘by and for refugees.’ Bold and provocative, it will not fail to spark conversations in the coming years."
Review of International American Studies
"<i>Departures</i> illuminates us in a brave and stimulating way on many layers and levels. The authors of this influential book succeed in eloquently articulating how to dishonour and dismantle not only dated methodologies to understand refugee issues but also the treatment of refugees."
Ethnic and Racial Studies
"This compact book performs two significant functions for the field of critical refugee studies: it provides a name for a growing body of critical analyses of the forced displacement of people by conflicts, their experiences of forced migration, and the history and discourse of the humanitarian sector, and it claims a refugee-centered and critical feminist place in the scholarly literature. . . . Recommended."
CHOICE
"<i>Departures</i> represents both an excellent introduction to Critical Refugee studies and something like a refugee manifesto. It is an unabashed polemic against the dehumanization of refugees and a forceful demonstration of the unlimited value and contributions of refugees themselves in terms of—but not limited to—knowledge and cultural production, world views, narratives, and more."
American Literary History
Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities
Introduction: Departures
1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On "Fear and Persecution"
2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability
3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal
4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity
Conclusion: In/Verse
Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR
Notes
References
Index
"In flipping the script and 're-storying' dominant narratives and visualizations, the authors make a compelling case for developing new analytics, new names, and new tools to grapple with refugee conditions, knowledge, and consciousness. This book is sure to be widely read and referenced."—Susan Koshy, Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign