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Critical Refugee Studies
Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience
Vinh Nguyen
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Critical Refugee Studies
Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience
Vinh Nguyen
About This Book
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation rather than a fixed category with legitimacy derived from the state. Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiencesâgratitude, resentment, and resilienceâto reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of safety and protection that are offered to (and withheld from) them. In so doing, he lays the framework for an original and compelling understanding of contemporary refugee subjectivity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Tiny, Fragile Human Body
- Introduction: Experience of Refuge
- 1. Gratitude
- 2. Resentment
- 3. Resilience
- Conclusion: Refugeetude: When Does a Refugee Stop Being a Refugee?
- Notes
- Bibliography