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Book SynopsisThis book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feelings and Migrants Come and Go, and Some Stay/Stick Part 1: Empathy 1. Witnessing as an Expression of Critical Empathy: An Examination of Audience Responses to a Refugee-Themed Documentary 2. Jacinda Ardern and the Politics of Leadership Empathy: Towards Emotional Communities of Transformation Part 2: Aspiration 3. Asian Americans and Asian Australians on Screen: Aspiring to Centre the Community through Comedy 4. Aspiration for Collective Progress: Diversity and Digital Intimacy as Practised by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (US), Sadiq Khan (UK), and Jagmeet Singh (Canada) Part 3: Belonging 5. Refugee Storytellers Claim Belonging: Agency, Community and Change Through the Arts 6. Belonging as Affect: Towards Paradigms for Reciprocal Care in Community-Based Research Conclusion: Care and Resilience in The Face of Increasing Precarity: COVID-19 and Beyond
