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Book SynopsisRefugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Critical Refugee Studies in Canada: An Introduction Part One: Historicization 1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman 2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness Alia Somani 3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience Laura Madokoro 4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship Peter Nyers Part Two: Conjunctions 5. Where Are We From?: Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung 6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal Edward Ou Jin Lee 7. Producing the Figure of the “Super Refugee” through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration Gada Mahrouse 8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For Donald Goellnicht Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary Contributors
