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1. On the border : framing migration interconnectivity between states and societies as diaspora or transnationalism? A response formulated through interdisciplinary lenses / Valeria Bello -- 2. Method in the chaos : non-linearity, ephemerality and refugee identity / Suda Perera -- 3. Composing theories of justice in an unjust world : using a methodology of interdisciplinary iterative analysis to examine the UK policy of destitution of refused asylum seekers / Tendayi Bloom -- 4. Paris 19 : mobility, memory and migration / Andres Borda-Gonzalez. [et al.] -- 5. Sketches from the margins of marginalized communities : lessons in survival, resilience and resistance acquired from Palestinian refugees / John Halaka -- 6. Citizenship narrated : a cross-disciplinary study of family migration and storytelling / Rikke Wagner -- 7. Interdisciplinarity at work : ethnopsychiatry, migration and the global subject / Francesco Vacchiano -- 8. Cities as lived spaces : making sense of everyday migrant sociability in academic discourses on migration and cities / Megha Amrith -- 9. Still photography and moving subjects : migration in the frame of hospitality / Parvati Nair.

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions-subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past, as spaces of negotiation and contestation. However, they converge in their perception of the "Spanish" nation-space as a historical and ideological construct that is perpetually going through transformations and reformations. This volume advocates the position that intellectual responsibility must lead us to engage openly in the issues underlying current social and political tensions

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politicsRead the IntroductionThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness.Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry."