Georgina Ramsay

Impossible Refuge

The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures

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Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780367229634
• ISBN-10: 0367229633
• Artikelnr.: 56924459

Autorenporträt

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