Departures supports, contextualizes, 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 rigor 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 that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees
that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories,
savior narratives, big data, colorful 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.