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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Phu, Thy, 1975-, Nguyen, Vinh (Associate professor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.