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Destination Detroit : discourses on the refugee in a post-industrial city / Rashmi Luthra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luthra, Rashmi, author. .
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political refugees--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Political refugees.
- Refugees--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Refugees.
- Political refugees--United States--Social conditions.
- Refugees--United States--Social conditions.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
- Other Title:
- Discourses on the refugee in a post-industrial city
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Deindustrializing and revitalizing cities in the United States are at a particular crossroads when it comes to the contest over refugees. Do refugees represent opportunity or danger? These cities are in desperate need to stem population and resource loss. However, they are also dealing with local communities that are feeling internally displaced by economic and technological flux. Few U.S. locations provide a more vivid case study of this fight than Metro Detroit, where competing interest groups are waging war over the meaning of the figure of the refugee. This book dives deeply into the discourse on refugees that various institutions in Metro Detroit are producing. The way in which local institutions talk about refugees gives us vital clues as to how they are negotiating competing pressures and how the city overall is negotiating competing imperatives. Indeed, the way various groups talk about refugees in Metro Detroit gives us a crucial glimpse into how U.S. cities are defining and redefining themselves today. The figure of the refugee becomes a slate on which groups with varied interests write their stories, aspirations, and fears. Consequently, we can figure out from local refugee discourses the ongoing question of what it means to be a Metro Detroiter now--and by extension, what it means to be a revitalizing U.S. city at this time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-191)
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472056453
- 047205645X
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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