...Rusaslina Idrus The Refugee Festival opens a space for “power and hope” for refugees in Malaysia. Moving away from narratives of refugees as victims, this article highlights refugee practices of autonomy and freedom through the marginal spaces of the Refugee Festival. Within the context...

... national movement weakens, and the refugee community becomes more fractured— spatially, socially, and politically—new forms of sociality and provisional association, mostly forged in the informal economy, are emerging in and around camps. How refugees tackle immediate material concerns, express grievances...

...Loukia Kotronaki What are the collective dynamics and self-organization practices that emerged in the refugee accommodation squats in Athens, and how have they challenged the spatial and identity politics of exclusion in the era of neoliberal crisis? Employing the concepts of heterotopias...

...Nicholas De Genova; Glenda Garelli; Martina Tazzioli Nicholas De Genova, Glenda Garelli, and Martina Tazzioli Autonomy of Asylum? The Autonomy of Migration Undoing the Refugee Crisis Script Their “Crisis” and Ours: The Proliferation...

...Ruba Salih Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are often described as living in a condition of waithood, suspended from law and awaiting return to their national homeland, where they will finally turn into qualified political lives. This frame, stemming from Hannah Arendt’s legacy, fetishizes rights...

...Ali Bhagat; Susanne Soederberg In 2015, a large influx of people forcibly displaced into Europe culminated in what has often been referred to by the media, government officials, and policymakers as the refugee crisis . This trope typically describes the tension between, on the one hand, a general...

...Charles I. Glicksberg Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE CULTURE OF THE REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES CHARLES I. GLICKSBERG THE WORLD is in a ferment of fear and hate. One breeds the other. The struggle for power is ideological as well as physical. Cruelty has become...

...Serhat Karakayali In the course of the so-called refugee crisis, millions of German citizens began volunteering for refugees. What emerged was a broad movement quite different from previous solidarity movements. The focus on humanitarian help and on integration measures and the lack of ideological...

...Penny Koutrolikou Crisis has been one of the most popular words in Europe since the turn of the millennium, exemplified by the “Eurozone crisis,” the so-called “refugee crisis,” and the latest Covid-19 crisis—among others. Drawing on critical analyses of crises and on imagined geographies...

...Moritz Altenried; Manuela Bojadžijev; Leif Höfler; Sandro Mezzadra; Mira Wallis This article investigates the governmental measures and policies adopted by Germany in the wake of the “long summer of migration” of 2015 to put refugees to work. Starting with a discussion of the autonomy of migration...

.... I therefore read critically against American Orientalism by focusing on a comparative analysis of the U.S.-Mexico and Israeli “security walls,” as well as Palestinian and Louisianan refugees. This enables one to reveal the haunting specter, to cite Anderson, of comparative work. © 2008 Duke...

..., for example, while at the same time, the New Sanctuary Movement has revived the 1980s' faith-based activist network that provides shelter to refugees in danger of deportation. Both compassion and rage rely on proximity to one's home, in all senses of the word: familial, local, and national. When does the face...

.... In this form memory and reality are volatile and changeable, yet believable. In the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir (dir. Ari Folman, 2008), the animated form of the bulk of the film is ultimately juxtaposed with television footage and still shots of the massacre within the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps...

..., understanding, valorization, and inhabitation of the times of life and their relations in a global economy in which the “production time” of capital has encompassed all of life. Drawing on the social contexts of undocumented immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and displaced persons, I elaborate on differential...

..., and national regulations, and how in turn the refugees assert their agency through resilience and resistance, individually and collectively. A G A I N S T the D A Y Arnab Roy Chowdhury Against Unjust Laws: Civil Society Activism for the Rights of the Stateless Rohingya Boat People in Bangladesh In Myanmar...

...Giorgos Maniatis The declaration of a refugee emergency and the policy of passive humanitarization of the borders at the Aegean Sea and the Balkan Route have been the key moments in 2015’s “long summer of migration,” anticipating a major shift in the policies and discourses on migration...

..., generating widespread situations of un-freedom, and creating countless refugees and stateless persons, mostly forced to survive in sites of precarious life, without any right to have rights. The concern of this contribution is this politics of dispossession in postcolonial South Asia and its relation...

... of the Yazidi community, the religious minority was to be eliminated and the will of the victims broken. The medical and mental health issues of the resulting from the combined subjective, collective, and cultural traumas, last not least followed by the migrant and refugee crisis, are extraordinary and need new...

... for the op­ pressed had become a deep-rooted conviction even before the Rev­ olutionary War. Since many of the original settlers had been refugees from civil and religious persecution, each colony had its own strong basis for the tradition. It was Common Sense to Thomas Paine that this new World hath been...