Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement Unsettling the Everyday and the Extraordinary

"The image we have of refugees is one of displacement - from their homes, families and countries - and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in numerous...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Marlowe, Jay, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Taylor and Francis 2017.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Studies in migration and diaspora.
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Sumario:"The image we have of refugees is one of displacement - from their homes, families and countries - and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in numerous and novel ways. At the same time, border regimes remain central in defining the possibilities and constraints of meaningful settlement. This book examines the implications of 'belonging' in numerous places as increased mobilities and digital access create new global connectedness in uneven and unexpected ways.Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement positions refugee settlement as an ongoing transnational experience, and identifies the importance of multiple belongings through several case studies based on original research in Australia and New Zealand, as well as at sites in the US, Canada and the UK. Demonstrating the interplay between everyday and extraordinary experiences and broadening the dominant refugee discourses, this book critiques the notion that meaningful settlement necessarily occurs in 'local' places. The author focuses on the extraordinary events of trauma and disasters alongside the everyday lives of refugees undertaking settlement, to provide a conceptual framework that embraces and honours the complexities of working with the 'trauma story' and identifies approaches to see beyond it.This book will appeal to those with an interest in migration and diaspora studies, human geography and sociology."--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9781351977586
9781315268958
9781351977593
Acceso:Open access