Impossible Refuge: The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures

ISBN-13: 9780367229634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Georgina Ramsay

Opis

Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced?

Spis treści

List of Terms and Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I Exodus, 1. Cosmology and Futurity, 2. Conflict and Historicity, 3. Fear and Violence, Part II: Asylum, 4. Liminal Asylum and Circular Time, 5. Imaginaries and New Life, Part III: Resettlement, 6. Resettlement and Contested Citizenship, 7. Friction and Temporal Discordance, 8. Refuge and Shifted Sociality, 9. Thresholds and Being Dead, 10. Sovereignty and Incommensurable Futures, Conclusion, References

O autorze

Georgina Ramsay is a socio-cultural anthropologist at the University of Delaware, USA. She has conducted research with refugees from Burundi, Rwanda, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo across settings of asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia. She has a professional background of working with resettled refugees in Australia, and has also published opinion pieces on topics related to forced migration in public media outlets.