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Departures Yen Le Espiritu

Departures By Yen Le Espiritu

Departures by Yen Le Espiritu


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Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies by Yen Le Espiritu

Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees.

Departures Reviews

Departures works best as a critical manifesto 'by and for refugees.' Bold and provocative, it will not fail to spark conversations in the coming years. * Review of International American Studies *

About Yen Le Espiritu

The Critical Refugee Studies Collective is a group of interdisciplinary scholars who advocate for and envision a world where refugee rights are human rights. Committed to community-engaged scholarship, the Collective charts and builds the field of critical refugee studies by centering refugee lives-and the creative and critical potentiality that such lives offer. In addition to studying refugees, many Collective members are themselves refugees with long and deep ties to refugee communities in California and beyond.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities

Introduction: Departures
1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On Fear and Persecution
2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability
3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal
4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity
Conclusion: In/Verse

Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR
Notes
References
Index

Additional information

NGR9780520386389
9780520386389
0520386388
Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies by Yen Le Espiritu
New
Paperback
University of California Press
2022-10-04
202
N/A
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