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Refugee Crisis” Refuge Special issue Intersectional Feminist Interventions in the “Refugee Crisis” Vol 34 • No 1 • 2018 Refuge Canada’s Journal on Refugees Revue canadienne sur les réfugiés Vol. 34, No. 1 Centre for Refugee Studies, Room 844, Kaneff Tower, York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.yorku.ca/refuge Editor-in-Chief Christina Clark-Kazak Guest Editors Anna Carastathis, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Gada Mahrouse, and Leila Whitley Managing Editor Johanna Reynolds Book Review Editor Dianna Shandy Editorial Advisory Board Sharryn Aiken, Queen’s University; Laura Bisaillon, University of Toronto Scarborough; Megan Bradley, McGill University; François Crépeau, McGill University; Jeff Crisp, Oxford University; Judith Kumin, University of New Hampshire, Manchester; Susan McGrath, York University; Volker Türk, UNHCR; Madine Vanderplaat, Saint Mary's University Founded in 1981, Refuge is an interdisciplinary journal published by the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University. The journal aims to provide a forum for discussion and critical reflection on refugee and forced migration issues. Refuge invites contributions from researchers, practitioners, and policy makers with national, international, or comparative perspec- tives. Special, thematic issues address the broad scope of the journal’s mandate, featuring articles and reports, shorter commentaries, and book reviews. All submissions to Refuge are subject to double-blinded peer review. Articles are accepted in either English or French. Refuge is a non-profit, independent periodical funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and supported by the membership of the Canadian Association for Refugee Studies (CARFMS). The views expressed in Refuge do not necessarily reflect those of its funders or editors. Refuge is indexed and abstracted in the Index to Canadian Legal Literature, Pais International, Sociological Abstracts, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and Canadian Business and Current Affairs. In accordance with the journal's open access policy, the full text of articles published in Refuge is also available online through our website, www.yorku.ca/refuge. © 2018. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence, which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original authorship is credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees is cited. Cette œuvre en libre accès fait l’objet d’une licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, laquelle auto- rise l’utilisation, la reproduction et la distribution de l’œuvre sur tout support à des fins non commerciales, pourvu que l’auteur ou les auteurs originaux soient mentionnés et que la publication originale dans Refuge : revue canadienne sur les réfugiés soit citée. ISSN (online): 1920-7336 Volume 34 Refuge Number 1 Contents Introduction book reviews anna carastathis, natalie kouri-towe, gada mahrouse, and leila whitley .................3 In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism The Coloniality of Migration and the “Refugee Crisis”: Sara R. Farris On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic maya el helou ....................................75 White European Settler Colonialism-Migration, and Racial Capitalism Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies encarnación gutiérrez rodríguez.................16 Hannah Jones, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Gargi Bhattacharyya, William Davies, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Kirsten Forkert, Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Emma Jackson, and Roiyah Saltus Invisible Struggles Andrea Filippi.................................... 76 Anna carastathis, aila spathopoulou, and myrto tsilimpounidi ............................. 29 Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975–1980 Invisible Lives: Gender, Dispossession, and Precarity Michael J. Molloy, Peter Duschinsky, Kurt F. Jensen, and amongst Syrian Refugee Women in the Middle East Robert Shalka nergis canefe ..................................39 mireille paquet .................................. 78 Inhabiting Difference across Religion and Gender: The Child in International Refugee Law Displaced Women’s Experiences at Turkey’s Border with Jason M. Pobjoy Syria Geraldine Sadoway............................... 79 Seçil Dataș......................................50 Tracing the Coloniality of Queer and Trans Migrations: review essay Resituating Heterocisnormative Violence in the Global Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge South and Encounters with Migrant Visa Ineligibility to Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles Canada edward ou jin lee . 60 Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition Michael Agier Laura Bisaillon ...................................82 1 Volume 34 Refuge Number 1 Introduction Anna Carastathis, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Gada Mahrouse, and Leila Whitley Abstract articles de ce numéro spécial qui, envisagé dans son ensem- While the declared global “refugee crisis” has received con- ble, vise à dégager une intervention féministe intersection- siderable scholarly attention, little of it has focused on the nelle dans les travaux de recherche qui concernent la migra- intersecting dynamics of oppression, discrimination, vio- tion (forcée). lence, and subjugation. Introducing the special issue, this article defines feminist “intersectionality” as a research his special issue emerges out of a larger, developing framework and a no-borders activist orientation in trans- project to build a network of feminist scholars and national and anti-national solidarity with people displaced organizers under the name Feminist Researchers Tagainst Borders (FRAB).1 Our project aims to build durable by war, capitalism, and reproductive heteronormativity, collaborations across disciplinary boundaries and national encountering militarized nation-state borders. Our intro- borders among scholars and organizers whose work emerges duction surveys work in migration studies that engages from a feminist perspective that centres gender and sexual- with intersectionality as an analytic and offers a synopsis ity as key analytic lenses through which the repercussions of of the articles in the special issue. As a whole, the special war, violence, forced displacement, asylum, and resettlement issue seeks to make an intersectional feminist intervention can be understood. What unites us is that we are feminists in research produced about (forced) migration. who have been troubled by the absence of intersectional analyses in studies on the “refugee crisis,” even as border and Résumé (forced) migration studies have proliferated. In this regard, Alors que les universitaires se sont beaucoup intéressés à la we take the inextricability of racial, gendered, sexual, and « crise des réfugiés » mondiale qui a été déclarée, ils n’ont que class power relations as the entry point to interrogate how peu envisagé les dynamiques croisées de l’oppression, la dis- the current “refugee crisis” is constructed and contested. As crimination, la violence et la subjugation. Le texte introduc- researchers committed to ethical reflexivity, we enter into this work with concerns over the circulation of research on tif de ce numéro spécial définit « l’intersectionnalité » fémin- “refugees” in an economy that turns human suffering into the iste transnationale comme cadre de recherche et comme un currency of scholarship, divorced from the responsibility to activisme orienté sans frontières solidaire des personnes transform the conditions that shape violence. Further, we are déplacées par la guerre, le capitalisme et l’hétéronormativité concerned with the way our own work risks entering into the de la reproduction, qui se heurtent à des frontières nation- broader state objectives of migration management that allow ales et étatiques militarisées. Cette introduction examine les nation-states to criminalize and capitalize upon cross-border études sur la migration qui retiennent l’intersectionnalité movement,2 while refusing entry to millions of people and comme perspective d’analyse et offre un sommaire des detaining and deporting countless others. © Anna Carasthatis, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Gada Mahrouse, and Leila Whitley, 2018. Cette œuvre en libre accès fait l’objet d’une licence Creative Commons Attribution- This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCom- NonCommercial 4.0 International License, laquelle autorise l’utilisation, la reproduc- mercial 4.0 International Licence, which permits use, reproduction, and distribution tion et la distribution de l’œuvre sur tout support à des fins non commerciales, pourvu in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original authorship is que l’auteur ou les auteurs originaux soient mentionnés et que la publication originale credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees is cited. dans Refuge : revue canadienne sur les réfugiés soit citée. 3 Volume 34 Refuge Number 1 Our intervention comes at a moment when the United Kaye explains, the use of certain terms casts doubt upon the Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has announced that there “genuineness” of some claimants’ refugee status, as stipulated are now more refugees and internally displaced people by the UNHCR and interpreted by signatory state authori- worldwide than ever before.3 What has been termed the “ref-
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