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Impossible Refuge: The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures book cover

1st Edition

Impossible Refuge The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures

By Georgina Ramsay Copyright 2018
224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative... Read more

List of Terms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Exodus

1. Cosmology and Futurity

2. Conflict and Historicity

3. Fear and Violence

Part II: Asylum

4. Liminal Asylum and Circular Time

5. Imaginaries and New Life

Part III: Resettlement

6. Resettlement and Contested Citizenship

7. Friction and Temporal Discordance

8. Refuge and Shifted Sociality

9. Thresholds and Being Dead

10. Sovereignty and Incommensurable Futures

Conclusion

References

Biography

Georgina Ramsay is a socio-cultural anthropologist at the University of Delaware, USA. She has conducted research with refugees from Burundi, Rwanda, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo across settings of asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia. She has a professional background of working with resettled refugees in Australia, and has also published opinion pieces on topics related to forced migration in public media outlets.

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