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? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative analysis of global humanitarian systems and the experiences of refugees whose lives are interwoven with them.
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? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative analysis of global humanitarian systems and the experiences of refugees whose lives are interwoven with them.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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