Displacement

Silvia Pasquetti is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle UniversityRomola Sanyal is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the London School of Economics

• Preface: the political geography and moral economy of asylum – Didier FassinIntroduction: global conversations on refuge – Silvia Pasquetti and Romola SanyalPart I: Experiments of categorizing and control1 Creating proper subjects: the politics of Hmong refugee resettlement in the United States – Chia Youyee Vang2 ‘Niche openings’ and compassionate exclusions: the UK’s response to children during the refugee crisis – Ala Sirriyeh3 The banality of displacement: re-reading Hannah Arendt to instil critical thought in the Colombian refugee crisis – Ulrich Oslender4 Refugees welcome? The politics of repatriation and return in a global era of security. Case study: the Rohingya in Bangladesh – Tazreena SajjadPart II: Inhabiting displacement and crafting futures5 At sea: maritime Palestine displaced – Diana Allan6 Privatized housing and never ending displacement: the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians – Catherine Brun and Ragne Øwre Thorshaug7 Voice through exit: Syrian refugees at the borders of Europe and the struggle to choose where to live – Chiara Denaro8 The global refugee camp: coinciding locales of refuge among Sahrawi refugees in North Africa – Konstantina IsidorosPart III: Scales of intervention9 Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the urban governance of refugees – Jonathan Darling10 Visibilising suffering or stealth humanitarianism? The perils of promoting durable protection in cities of the south – Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Loren B Landau11 Onward pushes and negotiated refuge: theorizing the fluid national and urban regimes of forced migration in Southeast Asia – Pei Palmgren

'Displacement advances our understanding of forced migration by accentuating the transnational, historical and interdisciplinary lenses through which the field could be conceptualised and theoretically enriched. Through profound and thought-provoking chapters, it goes beyond its promise of circumventing disciplinary siloes to arouse readers’ curiosity about other potential areas of inquiry that could be problematised in relation to forced migration. Thus, Displacement will appeal not only to scholars, students and practitioners within the field of forced migration, but also to those working across a number of other disciplines and areas of study.'Husne Akgol, LSE Review of Books'It promotes interdisciplinary dialogue, establishing connections with broader discussions on power, rights, redistribution, recognition, and justice. Such a multidisciplinary approach allows urban anthropology of refugee camps and moral anthropology of asylum seekers. It also highlights the connection between Race relations and Refugee studies.'Moslem Boushehrian, Ethnic and Racial Studies