Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes: Anthropological Perspectives

book: Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes

Anthropological Perspectives

Edited by: Sabine Bauer-Amin , Leonardo Schiocchet and Maria Six-Hohenbalken
Funded by: Backlisttransformation EOSC Future

Volume 1 in the series Forced Migration Studies Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839458020

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About this book

Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought to dissipate. Protection and control channel agency through mechanisms of either tutelage and victimisation or criminalisation. This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge essentialisation. This violence is international, national, society-based, internalised, and embodied - and it urgently needs due scholarly attention.

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Sabine Bauer-Amin is a social anthropologist, research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology as well as member of ROR-N. Previously, she has worked on the Middle East with a special focus on youth and issues of identity/alterity. Her current research focus lays on the situation of refugees from Iraq and Syria in Austria and beyond.
Leonardo Schiocchet has a PhD in anthropology (Boston University, 2011) and a Habilitation in social and cultural anthropology (University of Vienna, 2022). He is a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), a member of the Refugee Outreach & Research Network (ROR-n), and principal investigator of the FWF project The Austro-Arab Encounter. Since 2005, his work has focused on social belonging processes among Arab forced migrants.
Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Dr.), born in 1965, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She did her doctorate at Universität Wien. Her research fields are political and historical anthropology, diasporas and transnational communities, memory studies and art-based research. Her regional focus is on Kurdish communities in the Middle East and in Diaspora.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction: Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes Sabine Bauer-Amin, Leonardo Schiocchet and Maria Six-Hohenbalken Open Access Download PDF	11
PART 1: The Terms of Engagement
European Border Regimes: Necropolitics, Humanitarianism and the Democratic Order Heidrun Friese Open Access Download PDF	39
Mobility as a Political Act Alessandro Monsutti Open Access Download PDF	63
Palestinian Diaspora or Exile? Affective and Experiential Dimensions of (Im)mobility Leonardo Schiocchet Open Access Download PDF	71
PART 2: Complexity and Selectivity in Refugee Regimes
Intermingling and Overlapping of Refugee Regimes in Their Transnational Connections and Agencies: Yezidi Refugees From Iraq Maria Six-Hohenbalken Open Access Download PDF	111
On Incorporating Refugee Integration Into Refugee Regime: South Korean Case Seo Yeon Park Open Access Download PDF	143
The Struggle for Agency of Older Refugees of the Syrian Conflict in Vienna Sabine Bauer-Amin Open Access Download PDF	167
Reassessing Civil Society Refugee NGOS and the Role of Informal Networks in Turkey Denise Tan Open Access Download PDF	199
PART 3: Ambiguity and (Un)settlement in Agency
“Young Strong Men Should Be Fighting” – The Vulnerability of Young Male Refugees Monika Mokre Open Access Download PDF	225
Cleavage and Hijab Among Women from the Syrian Conflict in Brazil Mirian Alves de Souza Open Access Download PDF	243
Reading the Routes: Exploring Experiences of Place-Making Through Refugees’ Photographs, Walks, and Narratives in a Swedish Town Katarina Giritli Nygren, Sara Nyhlén and Rozalie E. Böge Open Access Download PDF	267
Contributors (in order of appearance) Open Access Download PDF	285

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Migration; Violence; Cultural Anthropology; Refugee Studies

eBook

Published: September 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839458020