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Displacement Displacement Global conversations on refuge Edited by Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal Manchester University Press Copyright © Manchester University Press 2020 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 5261 2346 6 hardback First published 2020 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Cover credit: Senzo Shabangu, ‘I Lift my Eyes to the Mountains’ (2015). Courtesy of the artist. Cover design: Abbey Akanbi, Manchester University Press Typeset by New Best-set Typesetters Ltd 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 vi Contents 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.
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