Young refugees and forced displacement : navigating everyday life in Beirut / Liliana Riga, Mary Holmes, Arek Dakessian, Johannes Langer, and David Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riga, Liliana, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut.

Refugees.

Forced migration--Lebanon--Beirut.

Forced migration.

Lebanon--Beirut.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Liliana Riga is Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She is a political and historical sociologist whose work explores immigration, refugees and civil society, racialised exclusions and political subjectivities. She is currently completing a book as a collection of essays, Refugeedom and Our Moral Selves. Mary Holmes is Professor of Emotions and Society at the University of Edinburgh. Her research examines emotional reflexivity. She is one of the founding editors of the journal Emotions and Society and is currently writing a book, with Chris Beasley, on internet dating. Arek Dakessian is a research fellow at Queen Margaret University. His research interests include cultural production, material culture, historical sociology and political alterity. Arek is also a founding member of LIVED, an Edinburgh-based charity. Johannes Langer is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. His research explores questions of racism, immigration and the rise of rightist nationalism with a focus on regional difference and historical social change. David Anderson was Research Assistant on the Belonging in Beirut project and is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. His PhD work addresses displacement, marginalisation and social space in the urban environment in Soacha, Colombia.

Contents:

1 Navigating Beirut, singing in the dark p. 1

2 "I don't have friends, I just have cousins" p. 27

3 A quiet politics in humanitarian spaces p. 51

4 Becoming young political subjects p. 87

5 A right to opacity? p. 113.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 18, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Riga, Liliana, 1962- Young refugees and forced displacement

ISBN:

9780429279232

042927923X

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1003142532

9781000336153

1000336158

9781000336078

1000336077

9781000336115

1000336115

Publisher Number:

40030337219

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