Patricia Ehrkamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 207033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Ehrkamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehrkamp |
| SIGNATURE | EHRKAMP P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4249-2341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 801 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Climbing a paper mountain: Academic publishing at a critical juncture
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography, looking for ways to represent both the forces of consolidation and resistance in telling the history of our discipline. Last considers how we might “re-expand” the history of the discipline through the teaching of countergeographies. Sundberg argues th…
Withdrawn: Making spaces for debate in the digital age
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Making spaces for debate in the digital age
Withdrawal notice to 'Making spaces for debate in the digital age' [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, http://10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing
Fluid metaphors describing “floods of migrants” or an “influx of migrant workers” are often used by journalists, politicians, and scholars to describe migration processes. While scholars have critiqued these metaphors as part of popular discourse, the roles fluid metaphors play in migration scholarship itself have received less attention. Through analysis of five academic journals, this article analyzes scholarly usage of fluid metaphors in conte…
Care, continuity, and meaningful change
Collaborations: Joint Plenary Editorial Introduction
Small steps
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge
Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exceptional, thereby shoring up the exclusionary terms of citizenship. Drawing on findings from our multi-sited study (2016–2019) of the resettlement of Iraqis to the US, we show how the fantasy of the ‘…
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S
How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a "post-future" society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resettled in the U.S., we argue that the condemnation of "expectations" (that is, realistic hope) coupled with the demand for refugees' gratitude means that Iraqis resettled to the U.S. are asked to sustain…
Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement
Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. This article explores the displacement, emplacement…
Geographies of migration III: Transit and transnationalism
This third and final report on geographies of migration highlights the complexities of international migration through the two related processes of transit and transnationalism. Examining spaces of transit and transnationalism complicates notions that migration is a straightforward movement. The report first turns to transit migration in order to examine the multiple processes, spaces, and experiences in-between the beginning and endpoints of mig…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
A geopolitics of trauma: Refugee administration and protracted uncertainty in Turkey
In this paper we map out what we are calling a “geopolitics of trauma” by examining the role of trauma in transnational refugee regimes and the individualisation of geopolitical relations through mental health diagnosis and service provision. Focusing on one site of entry into the international regime of refugee administration, we present findings from fieldwork that we conducted in August, 2015 in Turkey with NGO s and IGO s involved in the prot…
Immigration, Christian faith communities, and the practice of multiculturalism in the U.S. South
Recent scholarship has declared multiculturalism to be in retreat, yet multiculturalist discourses and practices remain salient in many realms of social reproduction. This paper explores multiculturalism in predominantly white churches in the U.S. South, a region that has seen significant demographic transformations due to immigration. Church outreach to immigrants draws on theologies that reject racial prejudice and that call for the accommodati…
Policing the borders of church and societal membership: Immigration and faith-based communities in the US South
Policing the borders of church and societal membership: immigration and faith-based communities in the US South. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper examines processes of border crossing and border policing within churches engaged in immigrant-outreach in the US South. Based on interviews with pastors and on focus groups with immigrant and non-immigrant congregants in 35 churches in the US South, we explore how border politics and anti-im…
Geographies of migration II: The racial-spatial politics of immigration
This second report on geographies of migration examines scholarship on the racial-spatial politics of immigration in the Global North, which have emerged as important issues in the context of rising nativism, the criminalization of immigrants, and the racist exclusion of immigrants from polities. The report first highlights research that has revealed the entanglements of race, immigration law, and citizenship before turning to ‘new immigrant dest…
Geographies of migration I: Refugees
This first report on Geographies of Migration primarily centers on refugees. I first summarize some of the debates about categories scholars use to describe people who move across space. The article then discusses three prominent themes in geographic research on refugees, turning first to the securitization of migration, its spatial and territorial practices of migration management, and the reworking of borders. Next, I highlight research on the …
Deserving Welcome? Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Contentious Politics of Belonging in the US South
This article examines articulations of merit and deservingness in relation to immigrants in the US South. In a context of pronounced anti-immigrant sentiment, scholars have rightfully focused on state practices that marginalize immigrants. Yet xenophobia and exclusion are but one set of responses to immigrants. Societies also construct immigrants as meritorious figures: hard workers, entrepreneurs, and upholders of family values. The figure of th…
Citizenship
This chapter examines the debates surrounding citizenship, focusing the discussion on rights and political community as they are unevenly spread and enacted across space. It emphasizes the importance of finding new vocabularies to understand practices of citizenship and political subjectivity. The chapter begins with an outline of conceptions of citizenship, highlighting the contributions that political geographers have made to this body of schol…
Under the Radar”: Undocumented Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Precarious Spaces of Welcome in the U.S. South
This article examines the limits of welcome that Christian communities of faith in the U.S. South extend to recent immigrants. We argue that churches are political spaces in which pastors and lay members weigh faith-based conceptions of hospitality against law-and-order discourses and in which notions of universal membership confront racialized immigration politics. Drawing on sixty interviews with pastors and lay ministers in thirty-five churche…
I've had it with them!’ Younger migrant women's spatial practices of conformity and resistance
This article examines how younger migrant women from Turkey maneuver the public and private spaces of their everyday lives in a neighborhood in Germany, and how they challenge and affirm the patriarchal practices and gender norms that husbands, fathers, and older migrant women seek to impose within and outside private homes. Younger migrant women selectively comply with gendered and generational norms of veiling and dress, while at the same time …
Reading Matthew G. Hannah’s Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s
Placing identities: Transnational practices and local attachments of Turkish immigrants in Germany
This paper examines the ways that Turkish immigrants create places of belonging in a German city. I suggest that transnational ties enable immigrants to forge local attachments through the production of place. Drawing on a neighbourhood case-study of Duisburg-Marxloh, I show how immigrants' transnational ties and practices visibly transform their current place of residence through transnational consumption, mass media, and the establishment of co…
Dreaming the ordinary: Daily life and the complex geographies of citizenship
This paper introduces the concept of ‘ordinary’ to analyze citizenship’s complexities. Ordinary is often taken to mean standard or routine, but it also invokes order and authority. Conceptualizing citizenship as ordinary trains our attention on the ways in which the spatiality of laws and social norms are entwined with daily life. The idea of ordinariness fuses legal structures, normative orders and the experiences of individuals, social groups a…
Beyond National Citizenship: Turkish Immigrants and the (RE)Construction of Citizenship in Germany
In this paper, we propose a relational perspective on citizenship that captures the meanings and practices of citizenship, and their geographies in the contemporary period of accelerated and globalized movement of people across national boundaries. A relational perspective makes it possible to tease out both the complex articulations of state and civil society in the construction of citizenship, and the intricate local, national and transnational…
Transnationalism and Migrants' Imaginings of Citizenship
Recent academic debates on transnationalism, immigration, and citizenship have largely ignored migrants' perspectives on citizenship. On the basis of ethnographic research in Germany and the United States between 1998 and 2001, we examine the values and meanings contemporary migrants assign to national citizenship and their citizenship practices. We argue that dominant discourses of liberal democratic citizenship and migrants' situated subject po…
We Turks are No Germans: Assimilation Discourses and the Dialectical Construction of Identities in Germany
In this paper I examine the ways in which politicians, media, and native residents formulate assimilation discourses-that is, expectations for immigrants to adapt to prevailing norms and cultures-and the effects that such discourses have on social relations in immigrant-receiving societies. Archival and ethnographic research in Germany illustrates that assimilation discourses are central in the dialectical process of identity construction in whic…
Geographies of migration I: Refugees
This first report on Geographies of Migration primarily centers on refugees. I first summarize some of the debates about categories scholars use to describe people who move across space. The article then discusses three prominent themes in geographic research on refugees, turning first to the securitization of migration, its spatial and territorial practices of migration management, and the reworking of borders. Next, I highlight research on the …
A geopolitics of trauma: Refugee administration and protracted uncertainty in Turkey
In this paper we map out what we are calling a “geopolitics of trauma” by examining the role of trauma in transnational refugee regimes and the individualisation of geopolitical relations through mental health diagnosis and service provision. Focusing on one site of entry into the international regime of refugee administration, we present findings from fieldwork that we conducted in August, 2015 in Turkey with NGO s and IGO s involved in the prot…
Rethinking Immigration and Citizenship: New Spaces of Migrant Transnationalism and Belonging
Risking publicity: Masculinities and the Racialization of Public Neighborhood Space
In this paper I examine the relationship between masculinities, public space and race in the context of Duisburg-Marxloh, an immigrant neighborhood in Germany. I propose that young Turkish and Kurdish men enact masculinities in relation to young Turkish women, Turkish and Kurdish political groups, and German residents, which shapes public neighborhood space in ways that can be characterized as masculine and exclusionary. These masculinist public …
I've had it with them!’ Younger migrant women's spatial practices of conformity and resistance
This article examines how younger migrant women from Turkey maneuver the public and private spaces of their everyday lives in a neighborhood in Germany, and how they challenge and affirm the patriarchal practices and gender norms that husbands, fathers, and older migrant women seek to impose within and outside private homes. Younger migrant women selectively comply with gendered and generational norms of veiling and dress, while at the same time …
Under the Radar”: Undocumented Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Precarious Spaces of Welcome in the U.S. South
This article examines the limits of welcome that Christian communities of faith in the U.S. South extend to recent immigrants. We argue that churches are political spaces in which pastors and lay members weigh faith-based conceptions of hospitality against law-and-order discourses and in which notions of universal membership confront racialized immigration politics. Drawing on sixty interviews with pastors and lay ministers in thirty-five churche…
The Limits of Multicultural Tolerance? Liberal Democracy and Media Portrayals of Muslim Migrant Women in Germany
This article examines how Muslim migrant women's sexuality is instrumentalised to erect gendered and cultural boundaries of citizenship and liberal democracy in Germany. German newspaper articles on forced marriages and honour killings for a period of 10 years (1998–2008) are analysed to show how constructions of social, religious and spatial differences serve to homogenise the space of liberal democracy and the exclusion of Islam from it, thereb…
Geographies of migration II: The racial-spatial politics of immigration
This second report on geographies of migration examines scholarship on the racial-spatial politics of immigration in the Global North, which have emerged as important issues in the context of rising nativism, the criminalization of immigrants, and the racist exclusion of immigrants from polities. The report first highlights research that has revealed the entanglements of race, immigration law, and citizenship before turning to ‘new immigrant dest…
Immigration, places of worship and the politics of citizenship in the US South
This article considers the ways in which places of worship serve as sites of citizenship politics in immigrant‐receiving liberal democracies. We approach citizenship in terms of the social practices and everyday spaces through which individuals and groups negotiate the terms of societal membership. Places of worship are both the objects of political debates about immigrant assimilability and citizenship, and sites of political agency in which imm…
Deserving Welcome? Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Contentious Politics of Belonging in the US South
This article examines articulations of merit and deservingness in relation to immigrants in the US South. In a context of pronounced anti-immigrant sentiment, scholars have rightfully focused on state practices that marginalize immigrants. Yet xenophobia and exclusion are but one set of responses to immigrants. Societies also construct immigrants as meritorious figures: hard workers, entrepreneurs, and upholders of family values. The figure of th…
Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement
Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. This article explores the displacement, emplacement…
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S
How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a "post-future" society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resettled in the U.S., we argue that the condemnation of "expectations" (that is, realistic hope) coupled with the demand for refugees' gratitude means that Iraqis resettled to the U.S. are asked to sustain…
Geographies of migration III: Transit and transnationalism
This third and final report on geographies of migration highlights the complexities of international migration through the two related processes of transit and transnationalism. Examining spaces of transit and transnationalism complicates notions that migration is a straightforward movement. The report first turns to transit migration in order to examine the multiple processes, spaces, and experiences in-between the beginning and endpoints of mig…
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing
Fluid metaphors describing “floods of migrants” or an “influx of migrant workers” are often used by journalists, politicians, and scholars to describe migration processes. While scholars have critiqued these metaphors as part of popular discourse, the roles fluid metaphors play in migration scholarship itself have received less attention. Through analysis of five academic journals, this article analyzes scholarly usage of fluid metaphors in conte…
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge
Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exceptional, thereby shoring up the exclusionary terms of citizenship. Drawing on findings from our multi-sited study (2016–2019) of the resettlement of Iraqis to the US, we show how the fantasy of the ‘…
Internationalizing Urban Theory: Toward Collaboration
This commentary responds to Jennifer Robinson's argument about internationalizing urban theory by focusing on the ways that connections across cities and space may be rethought to include non-academics and non-English speakers. I suggest that urban research may learn from other fields such as migration studies to enhance comparative methods. Collaborations, in particular those advocated by transnational feminist research and activism, provide use…
Care, continuity, and meaningful change
Policing the borders of church and societal membership: Immigration and faith-based communities in the US South
Policing the borders of church and societal membership: immigration and faith-based communities in the US South. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper examines processes of border crossing and border policing within churches engaged in immigrant-outreach in the US South. Based on interviews with pastors and on focus groups with immigrant and non-immigrant congregants in 35 churches in the US South, we explore how border politics and anti-im…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
Reading Matthew G. Hannah’s Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s
Beyond National Citizenship: Turkish Immigrants and the (RE)Construction of Citizenship in Germany
In this paper, we propose a relational perspective on citizenship that captures the meanings and practices of citizenship, and their geographies in the contemporary period of accelerated and globalized movement of people across national boundaries. A relational perspective makes it possible to tease out both the complex articulations of state and civil society in the construction of citizenship, and the intricate local, national and transnational…
Placing identities: Transnational practices and local attachments of Turkish immigrants in Germany
This paper examines the ways that Turkish immigrants create places of belonging in a German city. I suggest that transnational ties enable immigrants to forge local attachments through the production of place. Drawing on a neighbourhood case-study of Duisburg-Marxloh, I show how immigrants' transnational ties and practices visibly transform their current place of residence through transnational consumption, mass media, and the establishment of co…
Place: A Short Introduction by Tim Cresswell
Key Words: exclusionmeaningpracticestudy of place Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatricia EhrkampReviewed by
Transnationalism and Migrants' Imaginings of Citizenship
Recent academic debates on transnationalism, immigration, and citizenship have largely ignored migrants' perspectives on citizenship. On the basis of ethnographic research in Germany and the United States between 1998 and 2001, we examine the values and meanings contemporary migrants assign to national citizenship and their citizenship practices. We argue that dominant discourses of liberal democratic citizenship and migrants' situated subject po…
We Turks are No Germans: Assimilation Discourses and the Dialectical Construction of Identities in Germany
In this paper I examine the ways in which politicians, media, and native residents formulate assimilation discourses-that is, expectations for immigrants to adapt to prevailing norms and cultures-and the effects that such discourses have on social relations in immigrant-receiving societies. Archival and ethnographic research in Germany illustrates that assimilation discourses are central in the dialectical process of identity construction in whic…
Rethinking Immigration and Citizenship: New Spaces of Migrant Transnationalism and Belonging
Risking publicity: Masculinities and the Racialization of Public Neighborhood Space
In this paper I examine the relationship between masculinities, public space and race in the context of Duisburg-Marxloh, an immigrant neighborhood in Germany. I propose that young Turkish and Kurdish men enact masculinities in relation to young Turkish women, Turkish and Kurdish political groups, and German residents, which shapes public neighborhood space in ways that can be characterized as masculine and exclusionary. These masculinist public …
The Limits of Multicultural Tolerance? Liberal Democracy and Media Portrayals of Muslim Migrant Women in Germany
This article examines how Muslim migrant women's sexuality is instrumentalised to erect gendered and cultural boundaries of citizenship and liberal democracy in Germany. German newspaper articles on forced marriages and honour killings for a period of 10 years (1998–2008) are analysed to show how constructions of social, religious and spatial differences serve to homogenise the space of liberal democracy and the exclusion of Islam from it, thereb…
Internationalizing Urban Theory: Toward Collaboration
This commentary responds to Jennifer Robinson's argument about internationalizing urban theory by focusing on the ways that connections across cities and space may be rethought to include non-academics and non-English speakers. I suggest that urban research may learn from other fields such as migration studies to enhance comparative methods. Collaborations, in particular those advocated by transnational feminist research and activism, provide use…
Reading Matthew G. Hannah’s Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s
Dreaming the ordinary: Daily life and the complex geographies of citizenship
This paper introduces the concept of ‘ordinary’ to analyze citizenship’s complexities. Ordinary is often taken to mean standard or routine, but it also invokes order and authority. Conceptualizing citizenship as ordinary trains our attention on the ways in which the spatiality of laws and social norms are entwined with daily life. The idea of ordinariness fuses legal structures, normative orders and the experiences of individuals, social groups a…
Immigration, places of worship and the politics of citizenship in the US South
This article considers the ways in which places of worship serve as sites of citizenship politics in immigrant‐receiving liberal democracies. We approach citizenship in terms of the social practices and everyday spaces through which individuals and groups negotiate the terms of societal membership. Places of worship are both the objects of political debates about immigrant assimilability and citizenship, and sites of political agency in which imm…
I've had it with them!’ Younger migrant women's spatial practices of conformity and resistance
This article examines how younger migrant women from Turkey maneuver the public and private spaces of their everyday lives in a neighborhood in Germany, and how they challenge and affirm the patriarchal practices and gender norms that husbands, fathers, and older migrant women seek to impose within and outside private homes. Younger migrant women selectively comply with gendered and generational norms of veiling and dress, while at the same time …
Under the Radar”: Undocumented Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Precarious Spaces of Welcome in the U.S. South
This article examines the limits of welcome that Christian communities of faith in the U.S. South extend to recent immigrants. We argue that churches are political spaces in which pastors and lay members weigh faith-based conceptions of hospitality against law-and-order discourses and in which notions of universal membership confront racialized immigration politics. Drawing on sixty interviews with pastors and lay ministers in thirty-five churche…
Citizenship
This chapter examines the debates surrounding citizenship, focusing the discussion on rights and political community as they are unevenly spread and enacted across space. It emphasizes the importance of finding new vocabularies to understand practices of citizenship and political subjectivity. The chapter begins with an outline of conceptions of citizenship, highlighting the contributions that political geographers have made to this body of schol…
Geographies of migration I: Refugees
This first report on Geographies of Migration primarily centers on refugees. I first summarize some of the debates about categories scholars use to describe people who move across space. The article then discusses three prominent themes in geographic research on refugees, turning first to the securitization of migration, its spatial and territorial practices of migration management, and the reworking of borders. Next, I highlight research on the …
Deserving Welcome? Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Contentious Politics of Belonging in the US South
This article examines articulations of merit and deservingness in relation to immigrants in the US South. In a context of pronounced anti-immigrant sentiment, scholars have rightfully focused on state practices that marginalize immigrants. Yet xenophobia and exclusion are but one set of responses to immigrants. Societies also construct immigrants as meritorious figures: hard workers, entrepreneurs, and upholders of family values. The figure of th…
Immigration, Christian faith communities, and the practice of multiculturalism in the U.S. South
Recent scholarship has declared multiculturalism to be in retreat, yet multiculturalist discourses and practices remain salient in many realms of social reproduction. This paper explores multiculturalism in predominantly white churches in the U.S. South, a region that has seen significant demographic transformations due to immigration. Church outreach to immigrants draws on theologies that reject racial prejudice and that call for the accommodati…
Policing the borders of church and societal membership: Immigration and faith-based communities in the US South
Policing the borders of church and societal membership: immigration and faith-based communities in the US South. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper examines processes of border crossing and border policing within churches engaged in immigrant-outreach in the US South. Based on interviews with pastors and on focus groups with immigrant and non-immigrant congregants in 35 churches in the US South, we explore how border politics and anti-im…
Geographies of migration II: The racial-spatial politics of immigration
This second report on geographies of migration examines scholarship on the racial-spatial politics of immigration in the Global North, which have emerged as important issues in the context of rising nativism, the criminalization of immigrants, and the racist exclusion of immigrants from polities. The report first highlights research that has revealed the entanglements of race, immigration law, and citizenship before turning to ‘new immigrant dest…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
A geopolitics of trauma: Refugee administration and protracted uncertainty in Turkey
In this paper we map out what we are calling a “geopolitics of trauma” by examining the role of trauma in transnational refugee regimes and the individualisation of geopolitical relations through mental health diagnosis and service provision. Focusing on one site of entry into the international regime of refugee administration, we present findings from fieldwork that we conducted in August, 2015 in Turkey with NGO s and IGO s involved in the prot…
Geographies of migration III: Transit and transnationalism
This third and final report on geographies of migration highlights the complexities of international migration through the two related processes of transit and transnationalism. Examining spaces of transit and transnationalism complicates notions that migration is a straightforward movement. The report first turns to transit migration in order to examine the multiple processes, spaces, and experiences in-between the beginning and endpoints of mig…
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S
How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a "post-future" society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resettled in the U.S., we argue that the condemnation of "expectations" (that is, realistic hope) coupled with the demand for refugees' gratitude means that Iraqis resettled to the U.S. are asked to sustain…
Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement
Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. This article explores the displacement, emplacement…
Sociology (32 works) · Political science (31 works) · Law (28 works) · Politics (23 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (20 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (15 works) · Immigration (14 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (11 works)