6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal

Chapters in this book

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