Bibliography

Below is a bibliography of academic and non-academic references that deal with refugees and refugee histories.

Latest CRSC Books and Special Issues

Bradford, Anita Casavantes. Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Espiritu, Yến Lê, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, and Nigel Hatton. Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies. Berkeley: UC Press, 2022.

Espiritu, Yến Lê, and Lila Sharif, eds. “Special Issue on Critical Refugee Studies.” Amerasia Journal 47, no. 1 (2022).

Gandhi, Evyn Lê Espiritu. Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine. Berkeley: UC Press, 2022.

Hajj, Nadya. Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age. Berkeley: UC Press, 2021.

Nguyen, Marguerite, and Catherine Fung, eds. “Special Issue on ‘Refugee Literature: 40 Years After the Vietnam War.’” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 41, no. 3 (2016).

Vang, Ma. History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
 

Children's Literature

Cha, Dia. Dia’s Story Cloth: The Hmong People’s Journey of Freedom. Lee & Low Books, 1996.

Gratz, Alan. Refugee. Scholastic Press, 2017.

Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out and Back Again. Harper Collins, 2011.

Landowne, Youme. Mali Under the Night Sky: A Lao Story of Home. Cinco Puntos Press, 2010.

Leatherdale, Mary Beth. Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees. Annick Press, 2017.

Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2010.

Phi, Bao, and Thi Bui. A Different Pond. Capstone Young Readers, 2017.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. The Red Pencil. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Ruurs, Margriet. Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey. English and Arabic Edition, Orca Book Publishers, 2016.

Sanavongsay, Nor. A Sticky Mess. Sahtu Press, 2013.

Vilayvanh, Bender, and Nor Sanavongsay. Mommy Eats Fried Grasshoppers. Sahtu Press, 2018.

Williams, Karen Lynn, and Khadra Mohammed. My Name Is Sangoel. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2009.

Williams, Mary. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys in Sudan. Lee & Low Books, 2013.

Yang, Kao Kalia. A Map Into The World. Carolrhoda Books, Lerner Publishing, 2019.

Community Studies

Besteman, Catherine. Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine. Duke University Press, 2016.

Dorais, Louis-Jacques. “From Refugees to Transmigrants: The Vietnamese in Canada.” Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas, edited by Wanni Anderson and Robert G. Lee. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005, pp. 170-93. 

Erickson, Jennifer. Race-Ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities. Cornell University Press, 2020.

Meyers, Jessica. 2006. “Eden Center as a Representation of Vietnamese American Ethnic Identity in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, 1975-2005.” Journal of Asian American Studies 9: 55-85.

Nguyen, Phuong Tran. Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon. University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Ong, Aihwa. Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, and the New America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. 

Tang, Eric. Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto. Temple University Press, 2015.

Cultural Production, Refugee Stories, and Memory Work

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The Danger of a Single Story.  www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.  TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.

August, Timothy K. The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America. Temple University Press, 2020.

Bui, Long. “The Refugee Repertoire: Performing and Staging the Postmemories of Violence.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 41, no. 3, 2016, pp. 112-132.

Derluyn, Ilse, Charles Watters, Cindy Mels, and Eric Broekaert. “‘We’re All the Same, Coz Exist Only One Earth, Why the BORDER EXIST’: Messages of Migrants on Their Way.” Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012. pp. 1-20.

Dudley, Sandra H. Materializing Exile: Material Culture and Embodied Experiences among Karenni Refugees in Thailand. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.

Duong, Lan. “Diasporic Returns and the Making of Vietnamese American Ghost Films in Vietnam.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 41, no. 3, Aug. 2016, pp. 153–70.

Duong, Lan and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud. “Vietnamese American Art and Community Politics: An Engaged Vietnamese Perspective.” Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2012, pp. 241-69.

Duong, Lan, and Lila Sharif. “Displaced Subjects: Revolution, Film, and Women in Việt Nam and Palestine.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 168–97.

Hong, Mai-Linh K. “Reframing the Archive: Vietnamese Refugee Narratives in the Post-9/11 Period.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 41, no. 3, 2016, pp. 18-41.

McCormick, Patricia. “If Only Papa Hadn't Danced.” Free?: Stories about Human Rights. Candlewick Press, 2010.

Nguyễn, Patricia. “Salt | Water : Vietnamese Refugee Passages, Memory, and Statelessness at Sea.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2017, pp. 94–111.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Harvard University Press, 2017.

—-. “Remembering War, Dreaming Peace: On Cosmopolitanism, Compassion and Literature.” The Japanese Journal of American Studies, vol. 20, 2009, pp. 149–74.

—-. “Speak of the Dead, Speak of Viet Nam: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Minority Discourse.” The New Centennial Review, vol. 6, no. 2, 2006, pp. 7–37.

Nguyen, Vinh. “Refugee Gratitude: Narrating Success and Intersubjectivity in Kim Thúy’s Ru.” Canadian Literature, vol. 219, 2013, pp. 17–36.

—-. “Refugeography in ‘Post-Racial’ America: Bao Phi’s Activist Poetry.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., vol. 41, no. 3, 2016, pp. 171–93.

Nguyen-Vo, Thu Huong. 2005. “Forking Paths: How Shall We Mourn the Dead?” Amerasia Journal, vol. 31, 2005, pp. 157–75.

Reyes, Adelaida. Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience: Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free. Temple University Press, 1999.

Schlund-Vials, Cathy Jean. War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work.  Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Shire, Warsan. Home (Poem). 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9D92Xiygo.

Toibin, Colin. “The Barber of Barcelona.” In From the Republic of Conscience: Stories Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Liberties Press, 2009.

Um, Khatharya. “Exiled Memory: History, Identity, and Remembering in Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Diaspora.” Positions, vol. 20, no. 3, 2012, pp. 831–50.

—-. From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora. New York University Press, 2015.

Vo Dang, Thuy. 2005. “The Cultural Work of Anticommunism in the San Diego Vietnamese American Community.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2005, pp. 65–86.

Detention and Incarceration

Young, Elliott. Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Environmental/Climate Change Refugees

Ahuja, Neel. “Weather as War: Race, Disability, and Environmental Determinism in the Syrian Climate War.” Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2020, https://manifold.umn.edu/read/weather-as-war-race-disability-and-environmental-determinism-in-the-syrian-climate-war-thesis/section/05d008c2-b87e-419f-8043-ec39608744cd#ah0601.

Ahuja, Neel. Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century. University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Behrman, Simon and Avidan Kent. Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse? Routledge, 2018.

Dreher, Tanja, and Michelle Voyer. “Climate Refugees or Migrants? Contesting Media Frames on Climate Justice in the Pacific.” Environmental Communication, vol. 9, no. 1, 2015, pp. 58–76.

Elsadig, Elsheikh, and Hossein Ayazi. Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied. Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California Berkeley, Dec. 2019, https://belonging.berkeley.edu/climaterefugees.

—-. Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration. Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, July 2017, http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/movingtargets.

Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus. “The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu.” Global Environmental Change, vol. 22, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 382–90.

Hyndman, Jennifer. Dual Diasters: Humanitarian Aid After the 2004 Tsunami. Kumarian Press, 2011.

McLeman, Robert A. Climate and Human Migration: Past Experiences, Future Challenges. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

McNamara, Karen Elizabeth and Chris Gibson. “‘We Do Not Want To Leave Our Land’: Pacific Ambassadors at the United Nations Resist the Category of ‘Climate Refugees.’” Geoforum, vol. 40, no. 3, 2009, pp. 475–83.

Families, Children, and Youth

 Abrego, Leisy. Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders. Stanford University Press, 2014.

Casavantes Bradford, Anita. The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962. University of Carolina Press, 2014.

Dao, Loan Thi. Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism. Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2020.

Kwon, Yvonne Y. “Time-Image Episodes and the Construction of Transgenerational Trauma Narratives.” Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 29–59.

Nazli, Kibria. Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Nguyễn, Linh Thủy. “‘Loving Couples and Families:’ Assimilation as Honorary Whiteness and the Making of the Vietnamese Refugee Family.” Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 6, June 2021.

Ricoy, Ana López, et al. “Exit as Care: How Motherhood Mediates Women’s Exodus From Violence in Mexico and Central America.” Violence Against Women, vol. 28, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 211–31.

Schrag, Philip G. Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America. University of California Press, 2020.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera. Incarcerated Children and the Politics of Unchilding. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Watters, Charles. Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon. Routledge, 2000.

Food Studies

Alkon, Alison Hope, and Dena Vang. “The Stockton Farmers’ Market: Racialization and Sustainable Food Systems.” Food, Culture & Society, vol. 19, no. 2, 2016, pp. 389–411.

Curtis, Erin M. “Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles.” Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader, edited by Robert Ji-Song Ku et al., NYU Press, 2013, pp. 13–29. 

The Eat Offbeat Chefs, et al. The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs. Workman Publishing, 2021, https://www.workman.com/products/the-kitchen-without-borders.

Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Refugee Epistemology

Beswick, Stephanie. “If You Leave Your Country, You Have No Life!’ Rape, Suicide, and Violence: The Voices of Ethiopian, Somali, and Sudanese Female Refugees in Kenyan Refugee Camps.” Northeast African Studies, vol. 8, 2001, pp. 69–98.

Castel, Jacqueline. “Race, Sexual Assault, and the Meaning of Persecution.” International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 4, no. 1, 1992, pp. 39–56.

Chia, Youyee, et al. Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Choi, Venice. “Living Discreetly: A Catch 22 in Refugee Status Determinations on the Basis of Sexual Orientation.” Brooklyn Journal of International Law, vol. 36, no. 2, 2010, pp. 241–63.

Conlon, Diedre. “Waiting: Feminist Perspectives on the Spacings/Timings of Migrant (Im)Mobility.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 353–60, doi:10.1080/0966369X.2011.566320.

Daiya, Kavita. Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora. Temple University Press, 2020.

El-Haddad, Laila. The Gaza Kitchen. Grub Street Publishing, 2016.

Espiritu, Yến Lê, and Lan Duong. “Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art.” Signs, vol. 43, no. 3, 2018.

Freedman, Jane, et al. A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

Giles, Wenona, and Jennifer Hyndman. Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. University of California Press, 2014.

Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia, et al. Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices. Berghahn Books, 2009.

Hyndman, Jennifer. “Introduction: The Feminist Politics of Refugee Migration.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 17, no. 4, 2010, pp. 453–59.

Indra, Doreen Marie. “Ethnic Human Rights and Feminist Theory: Gender Implications for Refugee Studies and Practice.” Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1989, pp. 221–41.

Jung, Mariska. “Logics of Citizenship and Violence of Rights: The Queer Migrant Body and the Asylum System.” Birkbeck Law Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015, pp. 305–35.

Karpinski, Eva C. “Choosing Feminism, Choosing Exile: Towards the Development of a Transnational Feminist Consciousness.” Émigré Feminism: Transnational Perspectives, edited by Alena Heitlinger, University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. 17–29.

Koçak, Mert. “Who Is ‘Queerer’ and Deserves Resettlement?: Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey.” Middle East Critique, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24–46.

Luibhéid, Eithne. “Heteronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 227.

—-. “Queer/Migration: An Unruly Body of Scholarship.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2008, p. 170.

—-. “Sexuality, Migration and the Shifting Lines between Legal and Illegal Status.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2008, pp. 287–307.

Manalansan, Martin. “Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender in Migration Studies.” International Migration Review, vol. 40, no. 1, 2006, p. 224.

Mole, Richard C. M. “Queer Russian Asylum Seekers in Germany: Worthy Refugees and Acceptable Forms of Harm?” Refuge in a Moving World, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, UCL Press, 2020.

Mountz, Alison. “Where Asylum-Seekers Wait: Feminist Counter-Topographies of Sites between States.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 18, no. 3, 2011, pp. 381–99.

Munt, Sally. “Journeys of Resilience: The Emotional Geographies of Refugee Women.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 19, no. 5, 2012, pp. 555–77.

Nguyen, Ly Thuy. “Queer Dis/Inheritance and Refugee Futures.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, 2020, pp. 218–35, doi:10.1353/wsq.2020.0026.

Protecting Refugee Women: Promoting Gender Equality. Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme Standing Committee 51st Meeting, 31 May 2011.

Raboin, Thibaut. “Advocacy for LGBTI Asylum in the UK Discourses of Distance and Proximity.” Refuge in a Moving World, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, UCL Press, 2020, pp. 145–56.

Simmons, Tracy. “Sexuality and Immigration: UK Family Reunion Policy and the Regulation of Sexual Citizens in the European Union.” Political Geography, vol. 27, no. 2, 2008, p. 213.

White, Melissa Autumn. “Documenting the Undocumented: Toward a Queer Politics of No Borders.” Sexualities, vol. 17, no. 8, 2014, pp. 976–97.

Humanitarianism, Refugee Management, and the Gift of Freedom

Atanasoski, Neda. Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Feldman, Ilana. “The Humanitarian Condition: Palestinian Refugees and the Politics of Living.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 155–72.

Harrell-Bond, B. E. Imposing Aid - Emergency Assistance to Refugees. Oxford University Press, 1986.

Hong, Mai-Linh K. “Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 46, no. 1, 2020, pp. 34–48.

Hyndman, Jennifer. Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Malkki, Lisa. “Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 11, no. 3, 1996, pp. 377–404.

Nayeri, Dina. “The Ungrateful Refugee: ’We Have No Debt to Repay.” The Guardian, 4 Apr. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee.

Nguyen, Mimi Thi. The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. Duke University Press, 2012.

Oliver, Kelly. Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Rajaram, Prem Kumar. “Humanitarianism and Representations of the Refugee.” Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 247–64, doi:10.1093/jrs/15.3.247.

Vizcarra, Jael. “Humanitarian Disappointments: Labor Unrest and the Case of Laotian Refugees in Dirty War Argentina.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, 2016, pp. 49–70.

Wahab, Sharif A. “Hybrid Governmentality in Practice: Territoriality and Biopolitics in the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.” Political Geography, vol. 94, 2022, pp. 102568-, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102568.

Wahab, Sharif A., and Ishan Ashutosh. “Rebordering South Asia: Displaced Persons and Urbanization.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 112, no. 3, 2022, pp. 742–52, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.2023001.

Warren, Kamryn, and Elizabeth Holler. “Humanitarian Spectacles from Below: A Study of Social Connections in Unsettled Contexts.” Ethnography, vol. 16, no. 4, Dec. 2015, pp. 482–502.

Health and Mental Health

Bogic, Marija, et al. “Long-Term Mental Health of War-Refugees: A Systematic Literature Review.” BMC: International Health & Human Rights, vol. 15, no. 29, 2015, pp. 1–41.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “Sudden, Unexpected, Nocturnal Deaths among Southeast Asian Refugees.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 30, 1981, pp. 581–84, 589.

Crawley, Heaven. “The Politics of Refugee Protection in a (Post)COVID-19 World.” Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 3, Feb. 2021, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10030081.

Sirin, Selcuk R., and Lauren Rogers-Sirin. The Educational and Mental Health Needs of Syrian Refugee Children. Migration Policy Institute, 2015.

Sriram, Shyam. “Of Acculturative Stress and Integration Distress: The Resettlement Challenges of Bhutanese Refugees in Metro Atlanta.” South Asian Diaspora, vol. 12, no. 1, 2019, pp. 93–108, doi:10.1080/19438192.2019.1609298.

Watters, Charles. “Emerging Paradigms in the Mental Health Care of Refugees.” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 52, no. 11, June 2001, pp. 1709–18.

In Transit: At Sea, Camps, Bases, Processing Centers

Allan, Diana. Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile. Stanford University Press, 2014.

Balsom, Erika. “An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea.” E-Flux Journal, July 2018, https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/202624/new-publication-an-oceanic-feeling-cinema-and-the-sea-by-erika-balsom/.

Doan, Brian. The Forgotten Ones: A Photographic Documentation of the Last Vietnamese Boat People in the Philippines. Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association, 2004.

Espiritu, Yến Lê and J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez. “The Philippine Refugee Processing Center: The Relational Displacements of Vietnamese Refugees and the Indigenous Aetas.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 118–41.

Gabiam, Nell. The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps. Indiana Univeristy Press, 2016.

Galemba, Rebecca, et al. “Gateway to the North? Contingent Journeys at the Mexico‐Guatemala Border.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2020, doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12511.

Giles, Wenona, and Jennifer Hyndman. Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge. Routledge, 2016.

Hajj, Nadya. Protection Amid Chaos: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps. Columbia University Press, 2016.

Jacobsen, Malene. “Wars in Refuge: Locating Syrians’ Intimate Knowledges of Violence across Time and Space.” Political Geography, vol. 92, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102488.

Khalili, Laleh. “Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 25, 2005, pp. 30–45.

Knudsen, Christian John. Boat People in Transit: Vietnamese in Refugee Camps in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan. Lilian Barber Press, 1985.

Kunz, E. F. “The Refugee in Flight: Kinetic Model and Forms of Displacement.” International Migration Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 1973, pp. 125–46.

Lipman, Jana K. In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates. University of California Press, 2020.

Paik, Naomi. “Carceral Quarantine at Guantánamo: Legacies of US Imprisonment of Haitian Refugees, 1991 – 1994.” Radical History Review, vol. 115, 2013, pp. 142–68.

Perera, Suvendrini. “Oceanic Corpo-Graphies, Refugee Bodies and the Making and Unmaking of Waters.” Feminist Review, vol. 103, 2013, pp. 58–79.

Pugh, Michael. “Drowning Not Waving: Boat People and Humanitarianism at Sea.” Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2004, pp. 50–69.

Pugliese, Joseph. “Penal Asylum: Refugees, Ethics, Hospitality.” Borderlands, vol. 1, no. 1, 2002, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol1no1_2002/pugliese.html.

Rajaram, P. K., and C. Grundy-Warr. “The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer: Migration and Detention in Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand.” International Migration, vol. 42, no. 1, 2004, pp. 33–63.

Smith, Merrill. “Warehousing Refugees: A Denial of Rights, a Waste of Humanity.” World Refugee Survey Warehousing Issue, 2004, pp. 38–56.

Trụ, Trần Đình. Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate. University of Hawaii Press, 2017.

Law, Statecraft, and International Refugee Regime

Agamben, Giorgio. “We Refugees.” Symposium, vol. 49, no. 2, 1995, pp. 114–19.

Arendt, Hannah. “We Refugees.” Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile., edited by Mark Robinson, Faber and Faber, 1994, pp. 110–19.

Barnett, Laura. “Global Governance and the Evolution of the International Refugee Regime.” International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 14, no. 2–3, 2002, pp. 238–62.

Behrman, Simon. Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance. Routledge, 2018.

Besteman, Catherine. Militarized Global Apartheid. Duke University Press, 2020.

Betts, Alexander. “The Refugee Regime Complex.” Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, 2010.

Burton, Eve B., and David B. Goldstein. “Vietnamese Women and Children Refugees in Hong Kong: An Argument Against Arbitrary Detention.” Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 71–92.

Crostello, Cathryn. The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law. Oxford University Press, 2015.

FitzGerald, David Scott. Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Garcia, Maria Cristina. The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Goodwin-Gil, Guy S., and Jane McAdam. The Refugee in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Hamlin, Rebecca. Let Me Be a Refugee: Administrative Justice and the Politics of Asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Lippert, Randy. “Governing Refugees: The Relevance of Governmentality to Understanding the International Refugee Regime.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, vol. 24, 1999, pp. 295–328.

Liu, Robyn. “The International Government of Refugees.” Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces, edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters, Routledge, 2004, pp. 116–35.

Malkki, Lisa. “Refugees and Exile: From ‘Refugee Studies’ to the National Order of Things.” Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 24, 1995, pp. 495–523.

McNevin, Anna. “Ambivalence and Citizenship: Theorising the Political Claims of Irregular Migrants.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2013, pp. 182–200.

Milner, James. Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Nyers, Peter. Rethinking Refugees: Beyond States of Emergency. Routledge, 2006.

Paik, A. Naomi. Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press, 2020.

Parekh, Serena. Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement. Routledge, 2017.

Radley, Kurt Rene. “The Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return in International Law.” The American Journal of International Law, vol. 72, no. 3, 1978, pp. 586–614.

Salomon, Kim. Refugees in the Cold War: Towards a New International Refugee Regime in the Early Postwar Era. Lund University Press, 1991.

Sautman, B. “The Meaning of ‘Well-Founded Fear of Persecution’ in United States Asylum Law and in International Law.” Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, pp. 483–539.

Scalettaris, Guilia. “Refugee Studies and the International Refugee Regime: A Reflection on a Desirable Separation.” Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2007.

Soguk, Nevzat. States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft. Univesity of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Tuitt, Patricia. False Images: Law’s Construction of the Refugee. Pluto Press, 1996.

Vang, Ma. “The Refugee Soldier: A Critique of Recognition and Citizenship in the Hmong Veterans’ Naturalization Act of 1997.” Positions, vol. 20, no. 3, 2012, pp. 685–712.

Willen, Sarah S. Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Race, Empire, and Militarism

Espiritu, Yến Lê.   Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es). University of California Press, 2014.

Espiritu, Yến Lê. “Towards a Critical Refugee Study: The Vietnamese Refugee Subject in U.S. Scholarship.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, vol. 1, no. 1–2, 2006, pp. 410–33.

Lê Espiritu, Evyn. (2018). Vexed Solidarities: Vietnamese Israelis and the Question of Palestine, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 8–28, doi:10.1080/10436928.2018.1415568.

Madokoro, Laura. Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.

Todd, Molly. Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War. University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.

Zani, Leah. Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos. Duke University Press, 2019.

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