Departures - An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

"This book makes a compelling case for the need for new methods in attending to refugees, one of the most important subjects of our time. By centering refugees, the book offers an innovative and much-needed intervention in understanding the contexts, histories, creativity, and lifeworlds of refugees as subjects."—Thy Phu, Distinguished Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Visual Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

"In flipping the script and 're-storying' dominant narratives and visualizations, the authors make a compelling case for developing new analytics, new names, and new tools to grapple with refugee conditions, knowledge, and consciousness. This book is sure to be widely read and referenced."—Susan Koshy, Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About the author

The Critical Refugee Studies Collective is a group of interdisciplinary scholars who advocate for and envision a world where refugee rights are human rights. Committed to community-engaged scholarship, the Collective charts and builds the field of critical refugee studies by centering refugee lives—and the creative and critical potentiality that such lives offer. In addition to studying refugees, many Collective members are themselves refugees with long and deep ties to refugee communities in California and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Bascara, Bascara Victor, Lan Duong, Yen Le Espiritu, Yen Le Duong Espiritu, Nigel Hatton, Lila Sharif, Khatharya Um, Um Khatharya, Ma Vang
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2022
• EAN: 9780520386389
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38638-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Critical Refugee Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Middle East, Caribbean islands, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General