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On Edge: Ethnographies and Theories of Threshold Phenomena Ser.: Impossible Refuge : The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures by Georgina Ramsay (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100367229633
ISBN-139780367229634
eBay Product ID (ePID)6038318835
Product Key Features
Number of Pages214 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameImpossible Refuge : the Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures
SubjectHuman Geography, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, General, Disasters & Disaster Relief
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLaw, Social Science
AuthorGeorgina Ramsay
SeriesOn Edge: Ethnographies and Theories of Threshold Phenomena Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentList 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
SynopsisImpossible 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. The book problematises the solutions that are currently in place to resolve the displacement of refugees, considering that since displacement cannot be reduced to a politico-legal problem but is an experience that resonates at an existential level, it cannot be assumed that politico-legal solutions to displacement automatically resolve what is, fundamentally, an existential state of being. Impossible Refuge therefore offers a new theoretical foundation through which to think about the experiences of refugees, as well as the systems in place to manage and resolve their displacement. The book argues that the refuge provided to refugees through international humanitarian systems is conditional: requiring that they conform to lifestyles that benefit the hegemonic future horizons of the societies that host and receive them. Impossible Refuge calls for new ways of approaching displacement that go beyond the exceptionality of refugee experience, to consider instead how the contestation and control of possible futures makes displacement a general condition of our time. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration and refugees, humanitarianism and violence, sovereignty and citizenship, cosmology and temporality, and African studies, broadly.
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