Introduction, Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes Woolley;
Part 1. Refugee Genealogies;
Introduction, Lyndsey Stonebridge;
1. Refugees in Modern World History, Peter Gatrell;
2. Theories of the Refugee, After Hannah Arendt, Ned Curthoys;
3. A Genealogy of Refugee Writing, Arthur Rose;
4. Genres of Refugee Writing, Anna Bernard;
Part II. Asylum;
Introduction, Agnes Woolley;
5. Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law, Sudeep Dasgupta;
6. Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims, Anthony Good;
7. The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and The City, Alison Jeffers;
Part III. The Border;
Introduction, Emma Cox;
8. Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border, Agnes Woolley;
9. Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours, Liam Connell;
10. The Digital Border: the Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 Migration ‘Crisis’, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou;
Part IV. Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement;
Introduction, Sam Durrant;
11. The ‘Dead Road’, Displacement, and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone, Maureen Moynagh;
12. ‘What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?’: Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar’s The Return, Norbert Bugeja;
13. ‘A Man Carries His Door’: Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry, Douglas Robinson;
14. Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole, Byron Santangelo;
Part V. The Camp;
Introduction, Emma Cox;
15. Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps), Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh;
16. Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh;
17. Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp, Madelaine Hron;
Part VI. Sea Crossings;
Introduction, David Farrier;
18. Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy, Joseph Pugliese;
19. The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery, Hakim Abderrezak;
20. ‘Island is no arrival’: Migrants’ Islandment at the Borders of Europe, Mariangela Palladino;
21. At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees, Parvati Nair;
Part VII. Digital Territories;
Introduction, Agnes Woolley;
22. Networked narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Mary Mitchell;
23. Refugee writing, refugee history: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War, Dima Saber and Paul Long;
24. Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees, Btihaj Ajana;
25. The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness, Gillian Whitlock & Rosanne Kennedy;
Part VIII. Home;
Introduction, David Farrier;
26. Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen, Daniel Hartley;
27. Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, Mireille Rosello;
28. Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village, Misha Myers and Mariam Issa;
Part IX. Open Cities;
Introduction, Sam Durrant;
29. ‘Another Politics of the City’: Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism, Jonathan Darling;
30. The Welcome City?, Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite;
31. In the City’s Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community, André Grahle;
32. Open/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life, Sam Durrant; Index.