Reckoning with the experiences of refugees can inform epistemological and practical approaches to humanizing migrant populations before, during, and after their resettlement. Contributors explore what it means to experience dehumanization, offering urgent insights and policy-relevant perspectives to improve refugees’ social well-being and integration.
Authors
Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Anna Kirova, Resa Hasmath
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- 1
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- 420
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- Athabasca, CA
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- Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath and Anna Kirova
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 14
- 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Dehumanization and Resisting It 32
- Part I The Role of Immigration Policies and the Media in the Dehumanization of Refugees 50
- 2. Dehumanizing or Humanizing Refugees?: A Comparative Assessment of Canada, the United States, and Australia 52
- 3. Migrant and Refugee Precarity as a Double Movement: A Case Study of Dehumanization and Humanization in the Canada-US Borderlands 76
- 4. Resisting Dehumanization Through Resettlement Based on Full Refugee Experiences 102
- 5. Conflating Migration, Terrorism, and Islam: Mediations of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media Following the 2015 Paris Attacks 114
- Part II The Role of Educational Institutions and Programs in the (De)humanization of Refugees 134
- 6. A New School and New Life: Understanding the Experiences of Yazidi Families with Children 136
- 7. “Where Are You From?”: A Personal Perspective on the Struggles of Youth Living Between Two Cultures 162
- 8. Precarious Inclusion: Refugees in Higher Education in Germany 178
- 9. (Not) Meeting the Needs of Refugee Students: Toward a Framework for the Humanization of Education 206
- Part III Countering Dehumanization: State Apologies and New Approaches 234
- 10. When the State Says “Sorry”: Jewish Refugees to Canada and the Politics of Apology 236
- 11. State Apologies and the Rehumanization of Refugee, Indigenous, and Ethnic Minority Groups 258
- 12. Home, Hope, and a Human Approach to Displacement 280
- Part IV Enacting (Re)humanization: Refugee Agency and the Arts 296
- 13. A Life of Many Homes: Reflections of a Writer in Exile 298
- 14. Locating Kurdish Cultural Identity in Canada 314
- 15. How Can Music Ameliorate Displacement, Disconnection, and Dehumanization? 340
- 16. Music, Weapon of Change, Weapon of Peace: Thomas Mapfumo, Chimurenga, and the Power of Music in Exile 360
- 17. Music Enacting (Re)humanization: Concert Introduction, Program, and Link 390
- Contributors 400
- Index 408
- A 408
- B 409
- C 409
- D 411
- E 411
- F 411
- G 412
- H 412
- I 413
- J 413
- K 413
- L 414
- M 414
- N 415
- O 416
- P 416
- Q 416
- R 416
- S 417
- T 418
- U 419
- V 419
- W 419
- Y 420
- Z 420
