Un-settling Middle Eastern Refugees : Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America / Marcia C. Inhorn, Lucia Volk. Volume 40

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studies initiative, Berghahn Open Migration and Development, Author.

Contributor:

Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957- editor.

Volk, Lucia, editor.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Forced Migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : Berghahn Books, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. Her most recent publications include America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford, 2018) and The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton, 2012). Lucia Volk is Professor of International Relations and Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies at San Francisco State University. Volk is editor of The Middle East in the World: An Introduction (Routledge, 2015) and author of Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon (Indiana University Press, 2010). In 2017, she received the Middle East Studies Association's Undergraduate Education Award. Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. Her most recent publications include America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford, 2018) and The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton, 2012).

Summary:

Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence. The collection bears witness to their struggles, while also highlighting their aspirations for safety, settlement, and social inclusion in their host societies and new homes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

Part I (Dis)Counting Refugees

1. When States Need Refugees: Iraqi Kurdistan and the Security Alibi

2. Navigating Precarity, Prejudice, and "Return": The (Un)Settlement of Displaced Afghans in Iran and Afghanistan

3. Unsettling "Refugees" as a Category: Labeling, Imagined Populations, and Statistics in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut

Part II Protesting Exclusion

4. Middle Eastern Refugeehood in the Happiest Place on Earth: Syrians and Iraqis Entering Finland's Welfare State Bureaucracy

5. " I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here": An Afghan Refugee's Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater

6. Demanding Their Welcome: Agency-in-Waiting at a Protest Camp in Dortmund, Germany

Part III Making Lives in Exile

7. Living as Enduring: The Struggle for Life against the Limits of Refuge among Gaza Refugees in Jordan

Michael Vicente Pérez

9. Proactive Reciprocity: Educational Trajectories Reclaimed through Patterns of Care among Refugee Men in Greece

Part IV Seeking Health

10. America's Wars and Iraqis' Lives: Toxic Legacies, Refugee Vulnerabilities, and Regimes of Exclusion in the United States

11. Regimes of Exclusion in the Reproductive Healthcare Setting: Exploring Experiences of Syrian Refugees in San Diego, California

12. Valuing Health, Negotiating Paradoxes: Medicalization of the Hymen, Hymenoplasty, and Women's Healthcare in Ontario

Part V Reshaping Humanitarianism

13. A Death Sentence? UNRWA in the Trump Era

14 Race, Religion, and Afghan Refugees' Practices of Care in Greece

15. Blurred Lines and Syrian Tea: Negotiations of Humanitarian-Refugee Relationships in France

16. Inclusive Partnerships: Building Resilience Humanitarianism with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan

Conclusion. Rethinking Exclusion and Inclusion in Refugee Resettlement

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781800733695

1800733690