Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada

Open Access Published by University of Toronto Press 2021

Refugee States

Critical Refugee Studies in Canada

Edited by: Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu
Funded by: University of Toronto Libraries

In the series Cultural Spaces

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487541392

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About this book

Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.

Author / Editor information

Nguyen Vinh :

Vinh Nguyen is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo.
Phu Thy :

Thy Phu is a professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu Open Access Download PDF	1
Part One: Historicization
1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman Open Access Download PDF	23
2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness Alia Somani Open Access Download PDF	55
3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience Laura Madokoro Open Access Download PDF	71
4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship Peter Nyers Open Access Download PDF	99
Part Two: Conjunctions
5. Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung Open Access Download PDF	117
6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal Edward Ou Jin Lee Open Access Download PDF	143
7. Producing the Figure of the “Super-Refugee” through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration Gada Mahrouse Open Access Download PDF	173
8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For Donald Goellnicht Open Access Download PDF	194
Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen Open Access Download PDF	215
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	221
Index Open Access Download PDF	225

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: refugees; displacement; displaced peoples; race; Canadian immigration; settler colonialism; critical refugee studies; migration; migrants; citizenship; cultural studies; Dionne Brand; Komagata Maru; refuge

eBook

Published: June 29, 2021
ISBN: 9781487541392