This article argues that the discourse of tropicality in Colombia creates boundaries and binaries between racialized and normative territories, rural peripheral areas and urban centres, and spaces that have been constructed as darker “barbaric” regions closer to sea level and whiter “civilized” regions in temperate altitudes. Nevertheless, there is nuance to the geographies of tropicality, because race is difficult to contain within urban/rural spaces. Additionally, race as a social construct that is permanently in the making, presents changes in space and time, challenging any static ideas of race in intersection with geography. In supporting the argument that the discourse of tropicality produces racialized spaces, this article addresses forced displacement and the racialization that takes place along with displacement, which implies the crossing of the “border” between the “tropics” and the cities; and how Afro-Colombians, Indigenous, and Mestiza campesinas challenge the ideas of tropicality by creating new geographies as they settle after displacement.
{"title":"The Borders of Tropicality","authors":"Julián Gutiérrez Castaño","doi":"10.7202/1060672AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060672AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the discourse of tropicality in Colombia creates boundaries and binaries between racialized and normative territories, rural peripheral areas and urban centres, and spaces that have been constructed as darker “barbaric” regions closer to sea level and whiter “civilized” regions in temperate altitudes. Nevertheless, there is nuance to the geographies of tropicality, because race is difficult to contain within urban/rural spaces. Additionally, race as a social construct that is permanently in the making, presents changes in space and time, challenging any static ideas of race in intersection with geography. In supporting the argument that the discourse of tropicality produces racialized spaces, this article addresses forced displacement and the racialization that takes place along with displacement, which implies the crossing of the “border” between the “tropics” and the cities; and how Afro-Colombians, Indigenous, and Mestiza campesinas challenge the ideas of tropicality by creating new geographies as they settle after displacement.","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83317130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Kyriakides, Dina M. Taha, C. Charles, R. Torres
{"title":"Introduction: The Racialized Refugee Regime","authors":"C. Kyriakides, Dina M. Taha, C. Charles, R. Torres","doi":"10.7202/1060670AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060670AR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90590662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article critically appraises Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board decision-making that imposes burdens on diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugee claimants of colour to prove that they are queer according to homonationalist interpretations of queerness. This article examines decisions clustered around historical developments in the reception of racialized sexual minorities, including Canada (AG) v Ward, which made sexual minority refugee claims possible; Bill C-31, the immigration and refugee policy motivated by national security interests in the post-9/11 era; and 2017 guidelines designed to dispel misunderstandings about refugee claimants’ sexuality. Across this history, credibility assessments of refugee claims have undergone significant recalibrations, yet continue to reflect homonationalist values.
{"title":"Queer Credibility in the Homonation-State: Interrogating the Affective Impacts of Credibility Assessments on Racialized Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants","authors":"J. Rinaldi, Shanti I. Fernando","doi":"10.7202/1060673AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060673AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically appraises Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board decision-making that imposes burdens on diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugee claimants of colour to prove that they are queer according to homonationalist interpretations of queerness. This article examines decisions clustered around historical developments in the reception of racialized sexual minorities, including Canada (AG) v Ward, which made sexual minority refugee claims possible; Bill C-31, the immigration and refugee policy motivated by national security interests in the post-9/11 era; and 2017 guidelines designed to dispel misunderstandings about refugee claimants’ sexuality. Across this history, credibility assessments of refugee claims have undergone significant recalibrations, yet continue to reflect homonationalist values.","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"4 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75964313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deport. Deprive. Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism by Nisha Kapoor","authors":"Marsha Rampersaud","doi":"10.7202/1060678AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060678AR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84512862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim \"Other\" by Francis Ware","authors":"I. Sultana","doi":"10.7202/1060682AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060682AR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75636826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Reflections on Migration, \"Race\" and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context by Marsha Boese and Vince Marotta (Eds.)","authors":"Theodoros Fouskas","doi":"10.7202/1060677AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060677AR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"27 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72397312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voices from the \"Jungle\": Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp by the Calais Writers","authors":"Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui","doi":"10.7202/1060681AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1060681AR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"358 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79701112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the development of the legislation on asylum law and refugee policies in Portugal. The assessment begins in 1975, the year when democracy was re-established in the country, following the 1974 Carnation Revolution, and ends in 2015, the year the European asylum crisis started. We want to discuss whether, during this period, the policies established indicate an open regime, with an integrationist perspective, or whether they proclaim a closed regime with an exclusivist position; in other words, whether the asylum system promoted an active policy of receiving and integrating refugees, or whether the policies pursued intended to limit the access of refugees to the borders of the state. In order to understand these developments, we analyze asylum application figures and asylum laws, trying to understand the main circumstantial contexts that influence them, namely Portugal’s integration in the European Union.
{"title":"The Development of the Asylum Law and Refugee Protection Regimes in Portugal, 1975–2017","authors":"L. Sousa, P. Costa","doi":"10.7202/1055574AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055574AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the development of the legislation on asylum law and refugee policies in Portugal. The assessment begins in 1975, the year when democracy was re-established in the country, following the 1974 Carnation Revolution, and ends in 2015, the year the European asylum crisis started. We want to discuss whether, during this period, the policies established indicate an open regime, with an integrationist perspective, or whether they proclaim a closed regime with an exclusivist position; in other words, whether the asylum system promoted an active policy of receiving and integrating refugees, or whether the policies pursued intended to limit the access of refugees to the borders of the state. In order to understand these developments, we analyze asylum application figures and asylum laws, trying to understand the main circumstantial contexts that influence them, namely Portugal’s integration in the European Union.","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85277210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cet article concerne les positionnements identitaires d’un groupe de femmes « réfugiées palestiniennes ». Les guillemets sont ici d’une importance certaine du fait que l’article révèle, à travers une grille d’analyse intersectionnelle, comment le spectre identitaire de ces femmes est constitué d’identités qu’elles vivent comme imposées et d’autres qu’elles négocient ou revendiquent ardemment. Le présent travail approfondit cette complexité, qui est sous l’infuence de diférents « vecteurs de pouvoir » d’ordre juridique, politique, religieux et national.
{"title":"Refuser d’être désignées. Des identités imposées, négociées et revendiquées","authors":"R. Caron, Dominique Damant, Catherine Flynn","doi":"10.7202/1055583AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055583AR","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article concerne les positionnements identitaires d’un groupe de femmes « réfugiées palestiniennes ». Les guillemets sont ici d’une importance certaine du fait que l’article révèle, à travers une grille d’analyse intersectionnelle, comment le spectre identitaire de ces femmes est constitué d’identités qu’elles vivent comme imposées et d’autres qu’elles négocient ou revendiquent ardemment. Le présent travail approfondit cette complexité, qui est sous l’infuence de diférents « vecteurs de pouvoir » d’ordre juridique, politique, religieux et national.","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75695927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World, by Daniel Ghezelbash","authors":"Pierre-André Thériault","doi":"10.7202/1055585ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055585ar","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45974,"journal":{"name":"Refuge","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75199623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}