{"product_id":"refugee-states-critical-refugee-studies-in-canada-hardback-9781487508647","title":"Refugee States; Critical Refugee Studies in Canada (Hardback) 9781487508647","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRefugee States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCritical Refugee Studies in Canada\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVinh Nguyen (Edited by), Thy Phu (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487508647\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 2 figures\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring \"refuge\" and \"refugee\" as concepts that shape Canadian nation-building both within and beyond national borders, \u003ci\u003eRefugee States \u003c\/i\u003etakes an interdisciplinary and critical approach to describing how refugees articulate their relation to and defiance of official discourses. Through close examinations of refugee movements, contexts, and subjectivities, this collection reveals how Canada has relied upon the rejection and inclusion of refugees as a crucial means of statecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBringing together renowned and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, Nguyen and Phu illuminate the historical, political, and cultural conditions that produce refugees as well as the narrative of humanitarian benevolence that persists nationally and internationally. Highlighting landmark cases, the editors and contributors together develop critical refugee studies as a framework for understanding, nuancing, and critiquing the production of Canadian humanitarian exceptionalism – the international image and discourse of Canada as a liberal, tolerant, and welcoming haven for people fleeing oppression, persecution, and unfreedom. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eRefugee States\u003c\/i\u003e offers alternative modes of understanding past and present refugee passages to and within Canada, and brings to light the many ways in which refugee subjects navigate displacement, migration, and resettlement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Refugee Studies in Canada: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Historicization \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy\u003cbr\u003eJohanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness \u003cbr\u003eAlia Somani\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience\u003cbr\u003eLaura Madokoro\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship\u003cbr\u003ePeter Nyers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: Conjunctions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Where Are We From?: Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Adese and Malissa Phung\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal\u003cbr\u003eEdward Ou Jin Lee\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Producing the Figure of the \"Super Refugee\" through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration\u003cbr\u003eGada Mahrouse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eDonald Goellnicht\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595491373336,"sku":"9781487508647","price":31.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/refugee-states-critical-refugee-studies-in-canada-hardback-9781487508647","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}