Destination Detroit : Discourses on the Refugee in a Post-Industrial City /

Deindustrializing and revitalizing cities in the United States are at a particular crossroads when it comes to the contest over refugees. Do refugees represent opportunity or danger? These cities are in desperate need to stem population and resource loss. However, they are also dealing with local co...

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Main Author: Luthra, Rashmi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Refugee Story as Part of the Story of Metro Detroit -- Chapter 1. Destination Detroit: The Refugee as a Means of Economic Revitalization -- Chapter 2. Refugees Not Welcome: The Refugee as a Threatening Figure -- Chapter 3. The Refugee as a Vote Getter: The Political Fight over the Figure of the Refugee -- Chapter 4. Refugees Welcome: The Refugee as a Test of Our Collective Character -- Chapter 5. Detroit as Deportation Central for Chaldean Refugees: Representation of a Refugee Group in Narrow Christian Terms 
505 0 |a Chapter 6. Unsettling Refugee Discourse through Art and Culture: Attempting to Move beyond the Stock Figure of the Refugee -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Index 
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520 3 |a Deindustrializing and revitalizing cities in the United States are at a particular crossroads when it comes to the contest over refugees. Do refugees represent opportunity or danger? These cities are in desperate need to stem population and resource loss. However, they are also dealing with local communities that are feeling internally displaced by economic and technological flux. Few U.S. locations provide a more vivid case study of this fight than Metro Detroit, where competing interest groups are waging war over the meaning of the figure of the refugee. This book dives deeply into the discourse on refugees that various institutions in Metro Detroit are producing. The way in which local institutions talk about refugees gives us vital clues as to how they are negotiating competing pressures and how the city overall is negotiating competing imperatives. Indeed, the way various groups talk about refugees in Metro Detroit gives us a crucial glimpse into how U.S. cities are defining and redefining themselves today. The figure of the refugee becomes a slate on which groups with varied interests write their stories, aspirations, and fears. Consequently, we can figure out from local refugee discourses the ongoing question of what it means to be a Metro Detroiter now--and by extension, what it means to be a revitalizing U.S. city at this time. 
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