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Book SynopsisEvery American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth category. The essays in this volume will study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. This volume is not only timely but expansive, as it moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
From refugees to asylum seekers, from climate change to war, from historical uprootedness and displacement to today’s crisis of refugeeism, these topics are mobilizing humanities scholars to think about refugees with a new sense of urgency. This book demonstrates how interdisciplinary cultural approaches grounded in the humanities can transform refugee conversations so often dominated by political science, economics, and other disciplines. In doing so, the collection sets up far more inclusive refugee discussions and urges humanities thinkers to respond by taking the lead in the face of environmental and sociopolitical uncertainties.
Trade Review“Ranging from history to literature and ἀlm to mental health to environmental responsibility to academic sanctuaries, this collection is a truly multi-disciplinary, global, and temporally expansive exploration of what it means to seek out demand and create refuge. It aims to both re-open and advance a conversation that is crucial for our times” — Aline Lo, Assistant Professor of Asian American Literature, Department of English, Colorado College, USA.
“This new volume oḀers wide-ranging perspectives on refugee experience from scholars working in and across numerous disciplines, time periods, and geographic spaces. The contributions are tied together by a concern for the ethical treatment of refugees, with meditations on care, safety and self-determination amid trauma and continuing forced migration” — Mai-Linh K. Hong, Assistant Professor of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, University of California, Merced, USA.
“An accessible and wide-ranging anthology, Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement brings together essays that reᴀect on the refuge as a practice, idea and place. With essays on literature, ἀlm, song, dance, health care, the environment and the university campus, the authors respond expansively to a call for, in the words of Saharawi intellectual and activist Bahia Mahmud Awah, ‘the solidarity of others’” — Naimou Angela, Associate Professor, Department of English, Clemson University, USA.
Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calva and Marjorie Agosin, "Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement" is devoted to that fourth category. The essays comprising "Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement" study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. This volume is not only timely but expansive, as it moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge — Midwest Book Reviews (The Social Issues)
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Ignacio López-Calvo and Marjorie Agosín; PART ONE HUMANITY AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENTS, Chapter One; Chapter Two; PART TWO SEEKING REFUGE, Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; PART THREE ACTS OF CREATING REFUGE, Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; PART FOUR APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCTING REFUGE, Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven;Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Index
