Displacement: Global conversations on refuge

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This book is a collective effort by sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, political scientists, historians, migration studies scholars to develop new ways of thinking about forced displacement. We engage in a historical, transnational, interdisciplinary dialogue to offer different ways of theorizing about refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless people and others that have been forcibly displaced. Our work opens critical discussions of forced displacement, bringing it into conversation with other contemporary issues in different disciplines such as urbanization, securitization, race and imperialism. The book brings together different regions and countries into dialogue with each other- from Latin America, to sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, North America, South and South-East Asia. The book while being of particular interest to scholars of forced migration would be an important text for those interested in studying the intersection between displacement and contemporary political, social and economic issues. Front matter Contents List of figures List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: global conversations on refuge Part I: Experiments of categorizing and control Creating proper subjects: the politics of Hmong refugee resettlement in the United States ‘Niche openings’ and compassionate exclusions: the UK’s response to children during the refugee crisis The banality of displacement: re-reading Hannah Arendt to instil critical thought in the Colombian refugee crisis Refugees welcome? The politics of repatriation and return in a global era of security Part II: Inhabiting displacement and crafting futures At sea: maritime Palestine displaced Privatized housing and never-ending displacement: the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians Voice through exit: Syrian refugees at the borders of Europe and the struggle to choose where to live The global refugee camp: coinciding locales of refuge among Sahrawi refugees in North Africa Part III: Scales of intervention Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the urban governance of refugees Visibilising suffering or stealth humanitarianism? The perils of promoting durable protection in cities of the south Onward pushes and negotiated refuge: theorizing the fluid national and urban regimes of forced migration in Southeast Asia Index