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Record Nr.

UNINA9910917175103321

Autore

Abu-Laban Yasmeen

Titolo

Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca : , : Athabasca University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781771994118

9781771994101

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FrishkopfMichael

KirovaAnna

HasmathResa

Disciplina

305.9/06914

Soggetti

Refugees - Social conditions

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Dehumanization and Resisting It -- Part I The Role of Immigration Policies and the Media in the Dehumanization of Refugees -- 2. Dehumanizing or Humanizing Refugees?: A Comparative Assessment of Canada, the United States, and Australia -- 3. Migrant and Refugee Precarity as a Double Movement: A Case Study of Dehumanization and Humanization in the Canada-US Borderlands -- 4. Resisting Dehumanization Through Resettlement  Based on Full Refugee Experiences -- 5. Conflating Migration, Terrorism, and Islam: Mediations of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media Following the 2015 Paris Attacks -- Part II The Role of Educational Institutions and Programs in the (De)humanization of Refugees -- 6. A New School and New Life: Understanding the Experiences of Yazidi Families with Children -- 7. "Where Are You From?": A Personal Perspective on the Struggles of Youth Living Between Two Cultures -- 8. Precarious Inclusion: Refugees in Higher Education in Germany -- 9. (Not) Meeting the Needs of Refugee Students: Toward a Framework for the Humanization of Education -- Part III Countering Dehumanization:



State Apologies and New Approaches -- 10. When the State Says "Sorry": Jewish Refugees to Canada and the Politics of Apology -- 11. State Apologies and the Rehumanization of Refugee, Indigenous, and Ethnic Minority Groups -- 12. Home, Hope, and a Human Approach to Displacement -- Part IV Enacting (Re)humanization: Refugee Agency and the Arts -- 13. A Life of Many Homes: Reflections of a Writer in Exile -- 14. Locating Kurdish Cultural Identity in Canada -- 15. How Can Music Ameliorate Displacement, Disconnection, and Dehumanization? -- 16. Music, Weapon of Change, Weapon of Peace: Thomas Mapfumo, Chimurenga, and the Power of Music in Exile.

17. Music Enacting (Re)humanization: Concert Introduction, Program, and Link -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.