Governing the displaced : race and ambivalence in global capitalism / Ali Bhagat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhagat, Ali, 1991- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Government policy--European Union countries.

Refugees.

Refugees--Government policy--Africa, East.

Racism--Social aspects.

Racism.

Equality--Social aspects.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 174 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of refugee survival in Paris and Nairobi: shelter, work, and political belonging. Bhagat's book makes sense of a global refugee regime along the contradictory fault lines of passive humanitarianism, violent exclusion, and organized abandonment in the European Union and East Africa.Governing the Displaced highlights the interrelated and overlapping features of refugee governance and survival in these seemingly disparate places. In its intersectional engagement with theories of racial capitalism with respect to right-wing populism, labor politics, and the everyday forms of exclusion, the book is a timely and necessary contribution to the field of migration studies and to political economy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Governing the displaced

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Global displacement and racism

1. The logics of refugee governance under capitalism

2. The fantasy

3. Disposability

4. The refugee fantasy and the European frontier

5. Disposability and survival in Paris

6. Refugee governance and encampment fantasies in Kenya

7. Disposability and abandonment in Nairobi

Conclusion: Endless displacement?

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501773624

1501773623

9781501773631 (electronic book)

1501773631

OCLC:

1417196438