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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nguyen, Vinh (Associate professor) (Editor), Phu, Thy, 1975- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Series:	Cultural spaces
Subjects:	Refugees > Canada. Réfugiés > Canada. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees. Refugees Canada Canadian immigration. Dionne Brand. Komagata Maru. citizenship. critical refugee studies. cultural studies. displaced peoples. displacement. migrants. migration. race. refuge. refugees. settler colonialism. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Shifting 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
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.