Departures : An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies
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| Title: | Departures : An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies |
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| Description: | Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees'rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees. |
| Authors: | Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States, Refugees--Government policy--United States, Asylum, Right of--United States, Immigrants--Government policy--United States |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees'rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520386365 9780520386389 9780520386396 |
