Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Editors
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Displacement, belonging, and migrant agency in the face of power: Challenging paradigms in migration studies
	Migrants’ representation
	Challenging migration paradigms
		Push / pull
		Forced / voluntary
		Places of origin / destination
	Regimes of belonging
	Drivers of displacement
	Re-creating home away from home
		Sentimentalizing home and communities of belonging
		Community as home
		Where is home? Here, there, or nowhere?
	Gender, sexuality, age, and belonging
		Gender
		Children
		Sexuality
	Researching people with trauma: a critique
	Notes
	References
Part I: Regimes of belonging
	Chapter 2: Out of place in antiquity
		Introduction
		Shaping place through asylum in the ancient Greek polis
		The tragedies of power and hospitality
		Late antique place, status, mobility, and the captive body
		The great redeemer—Bishop Caesarius of Arles
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Reimagining “refugee” protection: Beyond improving the status quo
		Introduction
		Setting the stage
		Unpacking the global compacts
			Legal orientalism meets refugee studies
			Adat: A silver lining ?
		Thinking beyond international law and state-led protection
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Governance of migration in South Asia: The need for a decolonial approach
		Introduction
		Colonial legacy in South Asia
			Evicted people
			The rejected Rohingya
			Partitioned lives
		Inadequacies of (post)colonial approaches
		Conclusion: examining the “global” in global compacts
		References
	Chapter 5: Lives on the move: Experiences of exclusion, vulnerability, and resilience of Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru
		Introduction
		On voices, narratives, and qualitative research
		On exclusion, vulnerability, and resilience
			Uprooting, danger, and resilience
			Socioeconomic exclusion and resilience
			Sexual discrimination, assault, and resilience
			Covid-19 and resilience
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II: Drivers of displacement
	Chapter 6: War and forced migration in medieval Iberia (1085–1266): Between al-Andalus and the feudal world
		Introduction
		Feudal conquest of al-Andalus: stay or emigrate
		The emigrants
		al-Andalus: lost paradise and homeland
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 7: Migration and modern slavery: Perspectives in Africa to Europe migration
		Introduction
		Narratives of international migration and modern slavery
		International migration: experiences in modern-day slavery
		Information technologies, social media, international migration, and modern slavery
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: The anxious integration of former enclave or “new” citizens in North Bengal, India
		Introduction
		Enclave dwellers and their im/mobility
		Belonging and the choice of citizenship
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: Climate and non-climatic stressors, internal migration, and belonging in Ghana
		Introduction
		North–south migration in Ghana: The role of colonial marginalization and contemporary socioecological stressors
		The migration process, initial integration, and fulfilling aspirations
		Economic exploitation and the politics of belonging
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Chapter 10: Henancun in Beijing, a parallel society in the making
		Introduction
		Rural-to-urban migration in China
		Never belonged
		An identity divided
			A formal businessman in recycling
			A celery controversy
			Connect to disconnect
		Belonging under construction
			Constructing a migrant community in Henancun
			Working and living with a migrant schedule
			Nurturing an exclusive migrant space
			Building a better “home”
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part III: Re-creating home away from home
	Chapter 11: Uprooted: living between two worlds—German postwar refugee: Narratives on displacement and exile
		Introduction
		German refugees after 1945
		Living between two worlds: narratives on displacement and exile
		Is there a successful integration? Reflections on refugees and sedentary societies
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 12: Palestine in exile: Blurring the boundaries and re-creating the homeland
		Introduction
		The origins of Palestinian exile
		Structural statelessness and continual displacement
		Home and exile in the Palestinian refugee camps
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: Displacement, diaspora, and statelessness: Framing the Kurdish case
		Introduction: dissent and displacement
		Cases of displacements in recent history
		Diaspora, collective action, and its discontents
		Belonging and identity in the diaspora
		Understanding the conundrum of statelessness
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: What makes a place a home?: Syrian refugees’ narratives on belonging in Turkey
		Introduction
		The questions of home and belonging
		Research methods
		“Home is in our memories”
		Home as a community
		Home as a space of freedom
		Home is where I earn money
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15: “This is about making family”: Creating communities of belonging in schools serving refugee-background students
		Introduction
		Discourse, exclusion, and (un)belonging in literature on RB students
		Context and methods
		Findings
			How deficit discourse creates a culture of unbelonging
			What communities of belonging look like
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Gender, sexuality, age, and belonging
	Chapter 16: “I am not alone”: Rohingya women negotiating home and belonging in Bangladesh’s refugee camps
		Introduction
		Gender and belonging in forced migration
		Feminist ethnographic fieldwork in the refugee camp
		Fleeing from Myanmar, settling in the camps
		Re-creating home, re-creating community
		Negotiating belonging, feeling at home
		Taleem : a sanctuary of belonging
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 17: Journeys of belonging: Latina migrant lesbians in Long Beach, California
		Introduction
		Intersecting violence in the lives of the narrators
		“And that’s where my world opened up”: gay clubs as sites of belonging
		When the home becomes home
		Beyond comfort: challenging violence
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18: The welfare state and women’s citizenship in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen
		The bonds of motherhood
		Women’s support networks and alternative forms of belonging
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 19: Navigating the regime of illegality : Experiences of migration and racialization among 1.5-generation Mexican migrant women
		Introduction
		Examining the literature
			How life cycle shapes migration experiences
			Diverse migratory experiences
			Institutions of socialization and developing a sense of belonging
		Methods: 1.5-generation women in two contexts
			Pennsylvania
			California
			Data analysis
		Findings of the Pennsylvania and California interview data
			Circumstances of migration: diverse experiences leaving Mexico
			Context of reception: Common experiences at the intersection of illegality and racialization
			Undocumented: belonging under the regime of illegality
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part V: Challenges to migration research
	Chapter 20: Refusal and migration research: New possibilities for feminist social science
		Introduction
		Refusal as a research intervention
		Feminist social science research, trauma, and imperial entanglements
		Refusal, trauma, and empire in research
			Refusal in research design
			Refusal in the field
			Refusal in writing and publishing
		Conclusion
		References
Index