Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees

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