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Acknowledgments
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada 1
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Part One: Historicization
- 1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy 23
- 2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness 55
- 3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience 71
- 4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship 99
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Part Two: Conjunctions
- 5. Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations 117
- 6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal 143
- 7. Producing the Figure of the “Super-Refugee” through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration 173
- 8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For 194
- Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary 215
- List of Contributors 221
- Index 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada 1
-
Part One: Historicization
- 1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy 23
- 2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness 55
- 3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience 71
- 4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship 99
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Part Two: Conjunctions
- 5. Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations 117
- 6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal 143
- 7. Producing the Figure of the “Super-Refugee” through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration 173
- 8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For 194
- Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary 215
- List of Contributors 221
- Index 225