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This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and others.
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Preface: the political geography and moral economy of asylum - Didier Fassin
Introduction: global conversations on refuge - Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal
Part I: Experiments of categorizing and control
1 Creating proper subjects: the politics of Hmong refugee resettlement in the United States - Chia Youyee Vang
2 'Niche openings' and compassionate exclusions: the UK's response to children during the refugee crisis - Ala Sirriyeh
3 The banality of displacement: re-reading Hannah Arendt to instil critical thought in the Colombian refugee crisis - Ulrich Oslender
4 Refugees welcome? The politics of repatriation and return in a global era of security. Case study: the Rohingya in Bangladesh - Tazreena Sajjad
Part II: Inhabiting displacement and crafting futures
5 At sea: maritime Palestine displaced - Diana Allan
6 Privatized housing and never ending displacement: the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians - Catherine Brun and Ragne Øwre Thorshaug
7 Voice through exit: Syrian refugees at the borders of Europe and the struggle to choose where to live - Chiara Denaro
8 The global refugee camp: coinciding locales of refuge among Sahrawi refugees in North Africa - Konstantina Isidoros
Part III: Scales of intervention
9 Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the urban governance of refugees - Jonathan Darling
10 Visibilising suffering or stealth humanitarianism? The perils of promoting durable protection in cities of the south - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Loren B Landau
11 Onward pushes and negotiated refuge: theorizing the fluid national and urban regimes of forced migration in Southeast Asia - Pei Palmgren
About the author
Silvia Pasquetti is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University
Romola Sanyal is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the London School of Economics
Summary
This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and others. -- .
