Graphic Refuge - Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics

The first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South, Graphic Refuge explores graphic narratives about refugee experiences, from war, displacement, and perilous sea crossings to detention camps, resettlement schemes, and second-generation diasporas.

About the author

Dominic Davies (Author)
>Candida Rifkind (Author)
Candida Rifkind is Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, where she specializes in alternative comics and Canadian literature. In addition to numerous publications, she co-edited Documenting Trauma: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories & Graphic Reportage in Comics (Palgrave 2020) and Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781771126915
• ISBN: 978-1-77112-691-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education