G Ramsay
Biographic Data
| ID | 29185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Ramsay |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramsay |
| SIGNATURE | RAMSAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8323-0626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Public optics and the politicization of refugee resettlement
In this article, we examine the disjuncture between the humanitarian framing of the United States refugee resettlement program and its administrative focus on quantifiable metrics, a pattern evident in both pre-departure and post-arrival resettlement contexts. Recognizing this disjuncture, we describe a larger contradiction between the framing of resettlement as a humanitarian program of migration and its politicization in public dialog. We argue…
Bordered lives and frontier futures
In the terms of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, borders and bordering can be thought of as a "major"-a seemingly naturalized system of knowledge-through which the boundaries of territorialized nation-states are seen as given and citizenship is framed as a human condition. These border regimes map onto racialized geographies of belonging and exclusion, and work to render such logics as similarly "natural" in the process. Racialized migrants und…
Displacement as Condition
The focus on migration 'crisis' in recent years has reinforced tropes of displacement as a concept that refers to involuntary movement, foreclosing the possibility of thinking through displacement in relation to the politicisation of place more broadly. Here, we take up two radically different case studies - a farmer and a refugee - to ask whether it is possible to speak of displacement beyond assumptions of involuntary mobility, and what theoret…
Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC
Consistent inconsistency
Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg and Anny Wyss (2019), Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan) Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckman (eds) (2018), Stategraphy: Towards a Relational Anthropology of the State (Oxford: Berghahn Books
Time and the other in crisis
Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration 'crisis' have reinforced the exceptionality attached to displacement. Drawing on research conducted with people in both refugee and non-refugee contexts, in this article I put forward a more expansive theorisation of displacement as a sense of temporal dispossession. Additio…
Humanitarian exploits
Can the displacement of refugees continue to be understood as exceptional? The recent global increase in refugees has prompted calls to develop new solutions to displacement that focus on integrating refugees into the local economies of nations that receive them. Transforming refugees from economic burdens to economic benefits does not, however, resolve displacement: doing so only shifts the project of refugee protection from a supposedly humanit…
Higher Education and Students from Refugee Backgrounds
Empirical interest in exploring the settlement experiences of people from refugee backgrounds has long been an area of research interest and advocacy. In particular, there has been significant growth in research that focuses on students from refugee backgrounds as they navigate the education systems of these settlement contexts, with a particular focus on refugee children and youth in schooling contexts. Less is known about the experiences of stu…
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
Impossible Refuge
Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative analysis of global humanitarian systems and the experien…
Central African Refugee Women Resettled in Australia
This article explores how experiences of racialisation toward women who are resettled in Australia from Central African countries of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo reflect a colonial imaginary and a legacy of postcolonising dominance in Australia. Drawing on 18-months of ethnographic research, I describe how assumptions of difference, dirtiness, and savagery become attached to women resettled in Australia from Central Afric…
Forced Childlessness and Ruptured Personhood
This article explores the phenomenon of forced childlessness as a result of state interventions for child protection, with a focus on the ways in which such practices impact subjective experiences of motherhood. I draw on the case of an intervention by the child protection system in Australia, in which an African woman experienced the forced removal of her children after being resettled as a refugee. I analyze this experience not as the result of…
Incommensurable Futures and Displaced Lives
The recent mass displacement of refugees has been described internationally as a "crisis." But crisis implies eventfulness: a distinct problem that can be solved. The urgency of solving this problem of displacement has seen the use of expansive techniques of sovereignty across Europe, the epicenter of the crisis. Focusing exclusively on the formation of sovereignty through the analytical locus of crisis continues, however, to reproduce the trope …
Benevolent Cruelty
Practices of state-mandated forced child removal in Australia have historically served to govern minority cultural groups. Despite an overarching imperative to prevent harm to children, contemporary systems of child welfare continue to impose forms of governance, particularly in regard to resettled refugees. This article focuses on the experiences of women who have been resettled in Australia as refugees from Africa, and who have, upon their rese…
Motherhood Motivations
This article expands on conceptualizations of refugee “return” by examining why African women resettled as refugees in Australia return to visit the country of first asylum from which they were previously resettled. I show that their return visits do not relate to attachment to place, but are motivated by social obligations to practise “motherhood” to family members who, due to conflict‐induced displacement, remain in a country of first asylum. I…
Avoiding Poison
Avoiding poison refers here to practices of securitization that enable refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to exert agency in urban asylum in Uganda. I consider that the stakes of poisoning are not exclusively understood in terms of physiological survival, but are existential, relating to the ways that Congolese refugees imbue purpose in their lives through acts that restore cosmological continuity. Focusing on the cosmological log…
A View of the Present State of Ireland
115 p. This html etext of A Veue of the present state of Irelande [1596] was prepared from the text found in Grosart [1894] and checked with Renwick's edition of the Rawlinson MS [Scholartis, 1934
Time and the other in crisis
Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration 'crisis' have reinforced the exceptionality attached to displacement. Drawing on research conducted with people in both refugee and non-refugee contexts, in this article I put forward a more expansive theorisation of displacement as a sense of temporal dispossession. Additio…
Incommensurable Futures and Displaced Lives
The recent mass displacement of refugees has been described internationally as a "crisis." But crisis implies eventfulness: a distinct problem that can be solved. The urgency of solving this problem of displacement has seen the use of expansive techniques of sovereignty across Europe, the epicenter of the crisis. Focusing exclusively on the formation of sovereignty through the analytical locus of crisis continues, however, to reproduce the trope …
Humanitarian exploits
Can the displacement of refugees continue to be understood as exceptional? The recent global increase in refugees has prompted calls to develop new solutions to displacement that focus on integrating refugees into the local economies of nations that receive them. Transforming refugees from economic burdens to economic benefits does not, however, resolve displacement: doing so only shifts the project of refugee protection from a supposedly humanit…
Higher Education and Students from Refugee Backgrounds
Empirical interest in exploring the settlement experiences of people from refugee backgrounds has long been an area of research interest and advocacy. In particular, there has been significant growth in research that focuses on students from refugee backgrounds as they navigate the education systems of these settlement contexts, with a particular focus on refugee children and youth in schooling contexts. Less is known about the experiences of stu…
A View of the Present State of Ireland
115 p. This html etext of A Veue of the present state of Irelande [1596] was prepared from the text found in Grosart [1894] and checked with Renwick's edition of the Rawlinson MS [Scholartis, 1934
Displacement as Condition
The focus on migration 'crisis' in recent years has reinforced tropes of displacement as a concept that refers to involuntary movement, foreclosing the possibility of thinking through displacement in relation to the politicisation of place more broadly. Here, we take up two radically different case studies - a farmer and a refugee - to ask whether it is possible to speak of displacement beyond assumptions of involuntary mobility, and what theoret…
Benevolent Cruelty
Practices of state-mandated forced child removal in Australia have historically served to govern minority cultural groups. Despite an overarching imperative to prevent harm to children, contemporary systems of child welfare continue to impose forms of governance, particularly in regard to resettled refugees. This article focuses on the experiences of women who have been resettled in Australia as refugees from Africa, and who have, upon their rese…
Forced Childlessness and Ruptured Personhood
This article explores the phenomenon of forced childlessness as a result of state interventions for child protection, with a focus on the ways in which such practices impact subjective experiences of motherhood. I draw on the case of an intervention by the child protection system in Australia, in which an African woman experienced the forced removal of her children after being resettled as a refugee. I analyze this experience not as the result of…
Central African Refugee Women Resettled in Australia
This article explores how experiences of racialisation toward women who are resettled in Australia from Central African countries of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo reflect a colonial imaginary and a legacy of postcolonising dominance in Australia. Drawing on 18-months of ethnographic research, I describe how assumptions of difference, dirtiness, and savagery become attached to women resettled in Australia from Central Afric…
Bordered lives and frontier futures
In the terms of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, borders and bordering can be thought of as a "major"-a seemingly naturalized system of knowledge-through which the boundaries of territorialized nation-states are seen as given and citizenship is framed as a human condition. These border regimes map onto racialized geographies of belonging and exclusion, and work to render such logics as similarly "natural" in the process. Racialized migrants und…
A View of the Present State of Ireland
115 p. This html etext of A Veue of the present state of Irelande [1596] was prepared from the text found in Grosart [1894] and checked with Renwick's edition of the Rawlinson MS [Scholartis, 1934
Motherhood Motivations
This article expands on conceptualizations of refugee “return” by examining why African women resettled as refugees in Australia return to visit the country of first asylum from which they were previously resettled. I show that their return visits do not relate to attachment to place, but are motivated by social obligations to practise “motherhood” to family members who, due to conflict‐induced displacement, remain in a country of first asylum. I…
Avoiding Poison
Avoiding poison refers here to practices of securitization that enable refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to exert agency in urban asylum in Uganda. I consider that the stakes of poisoning are not exclusively understood in terms of physiological survival, but are existential, relating to the ways that Congolese refugees imbue purpose in their lives through acts that restore cosmological continuity. Focusing on the cosmological log…
Impossible Refuge
Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative analysis of global humanitarian systems and the experien…
Central African Refugee Women Resettled in Australia
This article explores how experiences of racialisation toward women who are resettled in Australia from Central African countries of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo reflect a colonial imaginary and a legacy of postcolonising dominance in Australia. Drawing on 18-months of ethnographic research, I describe how assumptions of difference, dirtiness, and savagery become attached to women resettled in Australia from Central Afric…
Forced Childlessness and Ruptured Personhood
This article explores the phenomenon of forced childlessness as a result of state interventions for child protection, with a focus on the ways in which such practices impact subjective experiences of motherhood. I draw on the case of an intervention by the child protection system in Australia, in which an African woman experienced the forced removal of her children after being resettled as a refugee. I analyze this experience not as the result of…
Incommensurable Futures and Displaced Lives
The recent mass displacement of refugees has been described internationally as a "crisis." But crisis implies eventfulness: a distinct problem that can be solved. The urgency of solving this problem of displacement has seen the use of expansive techniques of sovereignty across Europe, the epicenter of the crisis. Focusing exclusively on the formation of sovereignty through the analytical locus of crisis continues, however, to reproduce the trope …
Benevolent Cruelty
Practices of state-mandated forced child removal in Australia have historically served to govern minority cultural groups. Despite an overarching imperative to prevent harm to children, contemporary systems of child welfare continue to impose forms of governance, particularly in regard to resettled refugees. This article focuses on the experiences of women who have been resettled in Australia as refugees from Africa, and who have, upon their rese…
Higher Education and Students from Refugee Backgrounds
Empirical interest in exploring the settlement experiences of people from refugee backgrounds has long been an area of research interest and advocacy. In particular, there has been significant growth in research that focuses on students from refugee backgrounds as they navigate the education systems of these settlement contexts, with a particular focus on refugee children and youth in schooling contexts. Less is known about the experiences of stu…
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
Consistent inconsistency
Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg and Anny Wyss (2019), Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan) Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckman (eds) (2018), Stategraphy: Towards a Relational Anthropology of the State (Oxford: Berghahn Books
Time and the other in crisis
Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration 'crisis' have reinforced the exceptionality attached to displacement. Drawing on research conducted with people in both refugee and non-refugee contexts, in this article I put forward a more expansive theorisation of displacement as a sense of temporal dispossession. Additio…
Humanitarian exploits
Can the displacement of refugees continue to be understood as exceptional? The recent global increase in refugees has prompted calls to develop new solutions to displacement that focus on integrating refugees into the local economies of nations that receive them. Transforming refugees from economic burdens to economic benefits does not, however, resolve displacement: doing so only shifts the project of refugee protection from a supposedly humanit…
Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC
Bordered lives and frontier futures
In the terms of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, borders and bordering can be thought of as a "major"-a seemingly naturalized system of knowledge-through which the boundaries of territorialized nation-states are seen as given and citizenship is framed as a human condition. These border regimes map onto racialized geographies of belonging and exclusion, and work to render such logics as similarly "natural" in the process. Racialized migrants und…
Displacement as Condition
The focus on migration 'crisis' in recent years has reinforced tropes of displacement as a concept that refers to involuntary movement, foreclosing the possibility of thinking through displacement in relation to the politicisation of place more broadly. Here, we take up two radically different case studies - a farmer and a refugee - to ask whether it is possible to speak of displacement beyond assumptions of involuntary mobility, and what theoret…
Public optics and the politicization of refugee resettlement
In this article, we examine the disjuncture between the humanitarian framing of the United States refugee resettlement program and its administrative focus on quantifiable metrics, a pattern evident in both pre-departure and post-arrival resettlement contexts. Recognizing this disjuncture, we describe a larger contradiction between the framing of resettlement as a humanitarian program of migration and its politicization in public dialog. We argue…
Political science (15 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Refugee (12 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (5 works)