Departures

Departures supports, contextualises, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities.

The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigour and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds.

It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies. These aim to replace and reverse the dehumanisation of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, saviour narratives, big data, colourful mapping, and spectator scholarship.

This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees.