Description |
1 online resource (204 pages) |
Series |
Forced Migration, 27 |
Contents |
Materialising Exile; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Materialising Exile and Karenni Refugees; Chapter 2: In-Between; Chapter 3: Inside/Outside; Chapter 4: Remembering, Forgetting and Imagining the Pre-Exile Past; Chapter 5: Coping and (Re)constructing 'Home' in Displacement; Chapter 6: Materialising Home and Exile; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor, and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces, and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile. The combined emphasis on both displacement a |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Refugees -- Burma -- Kayah State -- Social conditions
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Refugees -- Thailand -- Social conditions
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Refugees -- Social conditions.
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Burma -- Kayah State.
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Thailand.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781845458096 |
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1845458095 |
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