Refugee States : Critical Refugee Studies in Canada /
"Exploring "refuge" and "refugee" as concepts that shape Canadian nation-building both within and beyond national borders, Refugee States takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach to describing how refugees articulate their relation to and defiance of official discour...
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London, England :
University of Toronto Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Critical Refugee Status in Canada / Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu
- Part One: Historicization
- tShifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy / Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman
- Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness / Alia Somani
- Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience / Laura Madokoro
- Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship / Peter Nyers
- Part Two: Conjunctions
- Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations / Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung
- Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal / Edward Ou Jin Lee
- Producing the Figure of the "Super-Refugee" through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration / Gada Mahrouse
- Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand's What We All Long For / Donald Goellnicht
- Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary / Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen.