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This book examines the politics of making and unmaking refugees at various scales by probing the contradictions between the principles of international statecraft, which focus on the national/state level approach in regulating global forced displacement, and the forces that defy this state-based approach.
List of contents
Introduction—Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime 1. The Shifting Landscape of International Resettlement: Canada, the US and Syrian Refugees 2. Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion 3. Diaspora Geopolitics in Toronto: Tamil Nationalism and the Aftermath of War in Sri Lanka 4. Geopoliticizing Geographies of Care: Scales of Responsibility Towards Sea-borne Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean 5. Place, Displacement and Belonging: The Story of Abdi
About the author
Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Political Geography at Appalachian State University. She studies ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, international forced migration, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (Routledge, 2022). She currently is serving as the president of the Political Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers.
Orhon Myadar is Associate Professor at University of Arizona. She is a political geographer interested in questions of power, ideology, mobility and identity within the context of shifting political landscapes. She is the author of Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Post-Colonial Narratives in Mongolia (Routledge, 2021).
Summary
This book examines the politics of making and unmaking refugees at various scales by probing the contradictions between the principles of international statecraft, which focus on the national/state level approach in regulating global forced displacement, and the forces that defy this state-based approach.
