Departures

An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

• Author(s): Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 202
• ISBN_10: 0520386396
  ISBN_13: 9780520386396
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Refugees , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies ,

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.