Refugees and Knowledge Production

Magdalena Kmak is a Professor of International Law with specialization in Migration and Minority Research at Åbo Akademi University, Finland and a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Heta Björklund has a PhD in Classics from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has previously worked as an editor at the Classical journal Arctos and is the co-editor of Roman Law and the Idea of Europe.

• Introduction Part I: Beyond Methodological and Eurocentric Nationalism in Research on Scholarship 1. Methodological Nationalism and Migration Studies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 2. Refugee and Migrant Knowledge as Historical Narratives 3. Narratives on ‘Refugee Knowledge’ in the Institutions of Europe 4. The World as an Exiling Political Structure: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s Conceptualisation of Exile Part II: Refugee Scholarship and Scholarly Identity 5. Exile and Emigration from the Third Reich: Stages and Results of Research in Germany 6. Personal and Academic Narratives of Exiled and Displaced Scholars 7. Refugee Scholars Then and Now 8. Beyond Authoritarianism: Migration, Uncertainty and a Sense of Belonging Among Public Intellectuals Part III: Silencing and Gatekeeping Knowledges 9. The Silenced Majority: Academic Refugees and the Vicissitudes of Readaptation 10. Reframing the Subject: Affective Knowledge in the Urgency of Refuge 11. Nursing Trauma, Harvesting Data: Refugee Knowledge and Refugee Labour in the International Humanitarian Regime