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This book examines the other from experiences of migrants and refugees to terrorist labels to constructions of the local. We find that inclusive and exclusive identities are often arbitrarily defined along ambiguous lines, yet with tangible and deeply political consequences.
About the author
Marissa Sonnis-Bell is a doctoral researcher of geography at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Her research and publications centre on energy justice policies, consent-based waste siting and political economy of infrastructure in domains of nuclear and renewable energy.
David Elijah Bell is an assistant professor of anthropology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. He is a cultural and medical anthropologist, interested in disaster and conflict intervention, human rights, environmental contamination, ambiguous chronic illness, politics of health, and the general intersection of public health science with governance.
Michelle Ryan is currently researching the impacts of migration, loss and grief on asylum seekers and refugees. She is working with a group at the University of Limerick on a migrant pilot program to support refugees from a psychological perspective. She provides human resources support to companies and teaches academic writing and sociology and diversity at Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland.
