Departures : an introduction to critical refugee studies / the Critical Refugee Studies Collective: Yến Lê Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, Nigel Hatton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963- author.

Duong, Lan P., 1972- author.

Vang, Ma, 1982- author.

Bascara, Victor, 1970- author.

Um, Khatharya, author.

Sharif, Lila, 1984- author.

Hatton, Nigel, 1973- author.

Series:

Critical refugee studies ; v. 3.

Critical refugee studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of--United States.

Asylum, Right of.

Immigrants--Government policy--United States.

Immigrants.

Refugees--Government policy--United States.

Refugees.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 190 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022].

Summary:

"Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities

Introduction: Departures

A Refugee Critique of the Law : On “Fear and Persecution”

A Refugee Critique of Fear : On Livability and Durability

A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism : On Ungratefulness and Refusal

A Refugee Critique of Representations : On Criticality and Creativity

Conclusion: In/Verse

Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-182) and index.

Description based on online resource (viewed 20 Feb 2024), publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-38639-6

OCLC:

1347246844