Refugee states : critical refugee studies in Canada / Vinh Nguyen, Thy Phu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nguyẽ̂n, Vinh, author.

Phu, Thy, author.

Contributor:

University of Toronto. Library, Funder.

Series:

Cultural spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 236 pages)

Other Title:

Refugee states

Place of Publication:

2021.

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Exploring "refuge" and "refugee" as concepts that shape Canadian nation-building both within and beyond national borders, Refugee States takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach to describing how refugees articulate their relation to and defiance of official discourses. Through close examinations of refugee movements, contexts, and subjectivities, this collection reveals how Canada has relied upon the rejection and inclusion of refugees as a crucial means of statecraft. Bringing together renowned and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, Nguyen and Phu illuminate the historical, political, and cultural conditions that produce refugees as well as the narrative of humanitarian benevolence that persists nationally and internationally. Highlighting landmark cases, the editors and contributors together develop critical refugee studies as a framework for understanding, nuancing, and critiquing the production of Canadian humanitarian exceptionalism--the international image and discourse of Canada as a liberal, tolerant, and welcoming haven for people fleeing oppression, persecution, and unfreedom. In doing so, Refugee States offers alternative modes of understanding past and present refugee passages to and within Canada, and brings to light the many ways in which refugee subjects navigate displacement, migration, and resettlement."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Critical Refugee Status in Canada / Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu

Part One: Historicization

tShifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy / Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman

Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness / Alia Somani

Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience / Laura Madokoro

Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship / Peter Nyers

Part Two: Conjunctions

Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations / Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung

Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal / Edward Ou Jin Lee

Producing the Figure of the "Super-Refugee" through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration / Gada Mahrouse

Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand's What We All Long For / Donald Goellnicht

Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary / Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed April 28, 2023).

ISBN:

1-4875-4139-2

1-4875-3866-9

OCLC:

1240506330