Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes

Download or read book Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes written by Sabine Bauer-Amin and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.