1st Edition

Refugees and Knowledge Production Europe's Past and Present

Edited By Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund Copyright 2022
234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility. With critical attention to the meaning, production and... Read more

Introduction

Magdalena Kmak and Heta Björklund

Part I: Beyond Methodological and Eurocentric Nationalism in Research on Scholarship

1. Methodological Nationalism and Migration Studies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Pedro T. Magalhães and Laura Sumari

2. Refugee and Migrant Knowledge as Historical Narratives

Prem Kumar Rajaram

3. Narratives on ‘Refugee Knowledge’ in the Institutions of Europe

Bea Bergholm and Reetta Toivanen

4. The World as an Exiling Political Structure: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s Conceptualisation of Exile

Elsayed Mahmoud Elsehamy

Part II: Refugee Scholarship and Scholarly Identity

5. Exile and Emigration from the Third Reich: Stages and Results of Research in Germany

Alfons Söllner

6. Personal and Academic Narratives of Exiled and Displaced Scholars

Magdalena Kmak and Mehrnoosh Farzamfar

7. Refugee Scholars Then and Now

Carol Bohmer

8. Beyond Authoritarianism: Migration, Uncertainty and a Sense of Belonging Among Public Intellectuals

Christian Franklin Svensson

Part III: Silencing and Gatekeeping Knowledges

9. The Silenced Majority: Academic Refugees and the Vicissitudes of Readaptation

Kaius Tuori

10. Reframing the Subject: Affective Knowledge in the Urgency of Refuge

Ali Ali

11. Nursing Trauma, Harvesting Data: Refugee Knowledge and Refugee Labour in the International Humanitarian Regime

Nadine Hassouneh and Elisa Pascucci

Biography

Magdalena Kmak is a Professor of International Law with specialization in Migration and Minority Research at Åbo Akademi University, Finland and a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Heta Björklund has a PhD in Classics from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has previously worked as an editor at the Classical journal Arctos and is the co-editor of Roman Law and the Idea of Europe.