Table Of ContentDisplacement
Displacement
Global conversations on refuge
Edited by
Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal
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‘I Lift my Eyes to the Mountains’ (2015).
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Contents
List of figures page vii
List of contributors viii
Preface: the political geography and moral economy of asylum –
Didier Fassin x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction: global conversations on refuge –
Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal 1
Part I Experiments of categorizing and control 27
1 Creating proper subjects: the politics of Hmong refugee
resettlement in the United States – Chia Youyee Vang 29
2 ‘Niche openings’ and compassionate exclusions: the UK’s
response to children during the refugee crisis – Ala Sirriyeh 46
3 The banality of displacement: re-reading Hannah Arendt
to instil critical thought in the Colombian refugee crisis –
Ulrich Oslender 63
4 Refugees welcome? The politics of repatriation and return
in a global era of security 79
Case study: The Rohingya in Bangladesh – Tazreena Sajjad
Part II Inhabiting displacement and crafting futures 97
5 At sea: maritime Palestine displaced – Diana Allan 99
6 Privatized housing and never-ending displacement:
the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians –
Cathrine Brun and Ragne Øwre Thorshaug 116
7 Voice through exit: Syrian refugees at the borders of Europe
and the struggle to choose where to live – Chiara Denaro 131
8 The global refugee camp: coinciding locales of refuge among
Sahrawi refugees in North Africa – Konstantina Isidoros 153
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Part III Scales of intervention 173
9 Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the
urban governance of refugees – Jonathan Darling 175
10 Visibilising suffering or stealth humanitarianism? The perils
of promoting durable protection in cities of the south –
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Loren B. Landau 193
11 Onward pushes and negotiated refuge: theorizing the
fluid national and urban regimes of forced migration in
Southeast Asia – Pei Palmgren 210
Index 227
List of figures
7.1 and 7.2 Danish merchant vessel ‘Eleonora Maersk’, 25
October 2014. page 139
7.3 and 7.4 Refugees in Syntagma Square. Credit: A.E.,
a Syrian doctor, one of the protest organisers. 141
7.5 Hunger strike in Karmooz police station. Credit:
M.D., a Syrian-Palestinian journalist among the
detainees. 143
7.6 Karmooz police station, 11 November 2014. Credit:
M.D., a Syrian-Palestinian journalist among the
detainees. 144
List of contributors
Diana Allan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and
the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University
and filmmaker. She is the author of Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of
Palestinian Exile (2014) and the co-founder of the Nakba Archive.
Cathrine Brun is Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency
Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University. She is a human geographer
focusing on protracted displacement, the ethics and politics of humanitarianism
and making home in displacement.
Jonathan Darling is an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham
University. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of forced migration,
and considers how cities engage with questions of asylum and refuge.
Chiara Denaro is a Research Assistant in the Law and Criminology Depart-
ment at Edge Hill University (UK).
Didier Fassin is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton. Elected to the Annual Chair in Public Health at the
Collège de France, he is the President of the French Medical Committee for
Exiles. He recently authored Life. A Critical User’s Manual (Polity, 2018) and
edited Deepening Divides. How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate
Our World (Pluto, 2019)
Konstantina Isidoros is a Research Affiliate of ISCA and Research Fellow
of FRSG at the University of Oxford.
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University
of Oxford’s Department of International Development and a Global Scholar
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Loren B. Landau is Professor of Migration and Development at the University
of Oxford and the South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and
the Politics of Difference based at the University of the Witwatersrand’s
African Centre for Migration & Society. His interdisciplinary scholarship
explores mobility, multi-scale governance, and the transformation of socio-
political community across the Global South.
