{"id":2969,"date":"2022-03-16T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:26:21","slug":"amerasia-journal-publishes-special-issue-on-critical-refugee-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"Amerasia Journal publishes special issue on Critical Refugee Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest special issue of Amerasia Journal<\/em> features the expanding field of Critical Refugee Studies. Guest edited by Y\u1ebfn L\u00ea Espiritu (University of California, San Diego) \u2013 one of the co-founders of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective \u2013 and Lila Sharif (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), the special issue sheds light on the fundamental interests and questions that the field addresses, while also branching out into new avenues of inquiry. As Espiritu explains, Critical Refugee Studies makes critical adjustments and additions to Asian American studies that \u201cre-conceptualizes refugee lifeworlds as a site of social, political, and historical critiques that, when carefully traced, make transparent processes of colonization, war, and displacement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The special issue offers rich studies of these refugee lifeworlds, whether they are to be found in community gardens or Black Lives Matter protests, in refugee resettlement sites in San Diego County or All Saints\u2019 Episcopal Church in Smyrna, TN. The breadth of these locations also speaks to the wide range of experiences that the issue accounts for, including those of Vietnamese, Hmong, and Burmese refugees, alongside peoples displaced from Palestine and Iraq. Contributors also attend to the complicated relationships between Asian refugees and other people of color, particularly coalitions with African American community members in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder and new social justice movements. The issue explores these topics through a variety of modes, including not only scholarly research essays, but also memoirs, speculative fiction, and experimental fieldwork.<\/p>\n

Below is a table of contents for the special issue. To read the essays, please visit: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/ramj20\/current (subscription required)<\/p>\n

Critical Refugee Studies Amerasia Journal<\/em> Special Issue (47:1)<\/p>\n

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
\n\u201cTo Our Readers\u201d<\/p>\n

Y\u1ebfn L\u00ea Espiritu
\n\u201cIntroduction: Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies\u201d<\/p>\n

I. Emergence\/Emergency
\nEman Ghanayem, Jennifer Mongannam, and Rana Sharif
\n\u201cLocating Palestinians at the Intersections: Indigeneity, Critical Refugee Studies, and Decolonization\u201d<\/p>\n

Ma Vang and Kit Myers
\n\u201cIn the Wake of George Floyd: Hmong Americans\u2019 Refusal to Be a U.S. Ally\u201d<\/p>\n

Yazan Zahzah
\n\u201cWarcare Economies: San Diego, Refugees, and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)\u201d<\/p>\n

II. Refugee World\/ing(s)
\nS\u01a1n Ca L\u00e2m
\n\u201cBearing Witness: Using Video Ethnography to Map Embodied Geographies of Home\u201d<\/p>\n

Long Bui
\n\u201cRefugee Worlding: M.I.A and the Jumping of Global Borders\u201d<\/p>\n

Tamara Ho
\n\u201cBurmAmerican Foodscapes: Refugee Re-settlement and Resilience\u201d<\/p>\n

Cecilia M. Tsu
\n\u201cRefugee Community Gardens and the Politics of Self-Help\u201d<\/p>\n

Marimas Hosan Mostiller
\n\u201cThe Nexus of Asian Indigeneity, Refugee Status, and Asian Settler Colonialism in the Case of Indigenous Cham Muslim Refugees\u201d<\/p>\n

III. Just Between Us
\nTh\u00fay V\u00f5 \u0110\u1eb7ng, Th\u1ea3o H\u00e0, and T\u00fa-Uy\u00ean Nguy\u1ec5n
\n\u201cConflict and Care: Vietnamese American Women and the Dynamics of Social Justice Work\u201d<\/p>\n

Jennifer Tran
\n\u201cOn Becoming Tender: Conversations with My Father\u201d<\/p>\n

Dena Al-Adeeb
\n\u201cA Letter to My Daughter: An Archive of Future Memories\u201d<\/p>\n

Amira Noeuv
\n\u201cGirl with the Sak Yon Tattoo\u201d<\/p>\n

Lila Sharif
\n\u201cAfterwards and Other Non-Endings: Palestine, Afghanistan, and the Afterlives of War\u201d<\/p>\n

Russell C. Leong
\n\u201cIn Memoriam: Janice Mirikitani\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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