1st Edition

Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process Shelter Rhetorics

By Mónica Reyes Copyright 2025
138 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay. Centered around a study conducted at a shelter on the U.S. border, this book moves beyond this context to demonstrate how liminal sites provide opportunities for displaced communities to employ distinct shared rhetorical... Read more

1.     A Short Tour of the Project

2.     La Mesa Redonda: A Located-Listening Approach to Knowledge-Building

3.     En la Frontera: Resisting Spatial Conventions

4.     Public Narratives of Asylum and Silence as an Echo of Displacement

5.     Cooking, Crocheting, y Cantando: Composing Agency through Routine

6.     The Long Path Out through Advocacy-Building

Biography

Mónica Reyes is Assistant Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse Department at DePaul University. Her research interests include cultural rhetorics; rhetorical ecologies; critical refugee studies; and transnational feminist rhetorical literacies. Her work has been featured most recently in Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts (2024); Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing & Culture (2020); and Postcolonial Text (2019). She is also a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.