...A. Naomi Paik This essay is a cultural analysis of the legal testimony given in Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (HCC III), a federal lawsuit brought against the U.S. state on behalf of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees imprisoned in a United States–operated refugee camp at Guantánamo Bay...

...María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo The Central American refugee crisis has been aggravated by the Trump administration’s policies, but this administration certainly did not precipitate it. The first half of this article examines the determinant role US policy played—and continues to play...

...Mitja Velikonja Abstract This article deals with mostly negative ideological images of refugees, as they erupted in political graffiti and street art (stickers, stencils, various inscriptions) in Slovenia during the so-called refugee crisis from the fall of 2015 on. Its basic questions are three...

... of the refugee category beyond the legal definition to include a range of times, places, and subjects, this article conceptualizes refugeetude as a coming into consciousness of the social, political, and historical forces that situate refugee subjects and the acts that attempt to know, impact, and transcend...

... corresponding figure, homo sacer , or sacred man. It does so through a discussion of Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 film Children of Men , looking at how the film's story line—an infertile world in which one refugee, Kee, is found to be pregnant—links pregnancy to political systems that regulate who gets counted...

...Armando García In light of the current immigration debate, and in particular the state-sponsored carceral arguments most recently sparked by the arrival of Central American refugee children on the US-Mexico border, this article takes cues from the late José Esteban Muñoz’s call to sense...

...After Globalism Writing Group This essay reflects on the biopolitics of counting bodies under the conditions imposed by capitalism and state violence. It argues that war, refugee and migrant labor dislocations, and indeterminate zones of sovereignty have rendered bodies disposable and states...

... and the third-world proxy wars for the purportedly secular rivalry of the Cold War to the contemporary conditions of Muslim migrant and refugee communities—these multiple overlapping genealogies, we argue, are necessary reference points for an adequate analysis of our political present. As one way to think...

... in the country receiving public assistance.3 Originally placed on federal welfare rolls as a temporary and “adaptive” measure under the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975, a large segment of Southeast Asian refugees who fled their homelands...

... and topologically deformed and in which the citizen has been able to recognize the refugee that he or she is — only in such a world is the political survival of humankind today thinkable.  — Giorgio Agamben, “Beyond Human Rights” The Famously Forgotten One could justifiably begin...

...” ; Levy, “Refugees, Europe, Camps/State of Exception” ; Tsianos and Karakayali, “Transnational Migration” . 71 De Genova, “Deportation Regime,” 54 . 72 De Genova, “Stakes of an Anthropology” ; De Genova, “Antiterrorism, Race, and the New Frontier” . 73 Balibar, We, the People...

... second-and third-generation refugees. This section of the essay centers on the work of Udna Mi’ar, the only group whose oral history research, interview footage of village descendants, and visualizations of Mi’ar are presented in one video on the Zochrot and Israel Social TV websites. In March...

... between Haifa and Hedera, with a special focus on two villages: Umm al-Zeinat and Tan- toura. For the chapter on Tantoura, Katz wove the stories of the Tantoura Social Text 75, Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Duke University Press. refugees with those...

... of the refugees and other migrants (how many are there?) who have died while trying to cross the same Mediterranean in recent years, prompting some members of the European Union to suggest the construction of special camps in North Africa...

... in the Israeli-occupied territories. The permanent deferral of concerns for Palestinian refugees, access to basic infrastructure, and the fate and future of Jerusalem were conjoined with a neoliberalization of Palestinian governance, with preparations for and investment in a Palestinian free-market economy...

... be seen as particularly disrespect- ful because he was “the prime architect of Israel’s 1982 Lebanon inva- sion,”4 and thus, to those who knew the subtext of that tag, held responsible for the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee...

... of Catholic Charities on Long Island where his efforts were threefold: to offer direct services to immigrants, facilitate refugee resettlement, and promote immigrant issues through advocacy and public speaking. Claffey later became the advocacy director for the New York...

... the inside” or “1948 Palestinians.” They were granted ID cards and citi- zenship not to incorporate them into Israeli civic and political life, but to prevent the return of the 750,000-plus Palestinian refugees who had been expelled or who had fled, then considered “absentees” and thus denied Israeli...

... by the war of 1948 and its aftermath. Refu- gees fleeing coastal towns and villages settled in Ramallah in 1948. By the 1950s, it was home to a heterogeneous population of Christians and Muslims, “natives” and refugees, townspeople and peasants. Throughout...