Abstract
In search of transnational sanctuaries, often ending with unsuccessful border crossings, migrants and refugees insist on prospective hopefulness. The displaced mainly count on own resources, support from relatives as well as links with multiple formal and informal networks. With own steadfastness and resilience, most of them hope for their efforts eventually triggering and consolidating counteractions from transnational civic associations as well as potential interventions from top level representatives of humanitarian organizations and multilateral institutions.
In the meantime, migrants and refugees confront numerous intermediary groups including traffickers, informants and agitated violent right-wing clusters, as well as dispatched border armies. Such diverse groups seek either implementation or exploitation of national policies designed for controlling and expelling refugees. For the involved refugees such uncertainties between visceral realities and hopefulness might last for years- if not for generations.
So far, limited research addresses the transnational challenges migrants and refugees confront within, across and around borders. Much of it from state centric perspectives-stressing security policies and implementations[vi]. However, recent scholarship examines the dialectics of transnational constellations opposed by state oriented structural geographies[vii]. On the other, not much research exists on the current diverse extreme limbos in which migrants and refugees often transnationally navigate and negotiate to overcome.
Edward Said’s “negative dialectics” inspired socio-political movement conception[viii] in combination with Abdulrazak Gurnah’s socio-political focus on imagining narrative freedom of the formation of distinctive transnational social lives’[ix] could advance better understanding of the connections between top-down institutional framings and actions against migrant and refugee histories and priorities. Through their work and beyond, the two thinkers personally and professionally confronted and challenged diverse forms of identity subjugations and border-crossings,
In the meantime, migrants and refugees confront numerous intermediary groups including traffickers, informants and agitated violent right-wing clusters, as well as dispatched border armies. Such diverse groups seek either implementation or exploitation of national policies designed for controlling and expelling refugees. For the involved refugees such uncertainties between visceral realities and hopefulness might last for years- if not for generations.
So far, limited research addresses the transnational challenges migrants and refugees confront within, across and around borders. Much of it from state centric perspectives-stressing security policies and implementations[vi]. However, recent scholarship examines the dialectics of transnational constellations opposed by state oriented structural geographies[vii]. On the other, not much research exists on the current diverse extreme limbos in which migrants and refugees often transnationally navigate and negotiate to overcome.
Edward Said’s “negative dialectics” inspired socio-political movement conception[viii] in combination with Abdulrazak Gurnah’s socio-political focus on imagining narrative freedom of the formation of distinctive transnational social lives’[ix] could advance better understanding of the connections between top-down institutional framings and actions against migrant and refugee histories and priorities. Through their work and beyond, the two thinkers personally and professionally confronted and challenged diverse forms of identity subjugations and border-crossings,
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Publikationsdato | 2021 |
| Udgiver | www.ac4tec.com |
| Antal sider | 7 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2021 |