Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.

Edited by Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu

Acknowledgments

Critical Refugee Studies in Canada: An Introduction

Part One: Historicization

1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy
Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman

2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness
Alia Somani

3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience
Laura Madokoro

4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship
Peter Nyers

Part Two: Conjunctions

5. Where Are We From?: Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations
Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung

6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal
Edward Ou Jin Lee

7. Producing the Figure of the "Super Refugee" through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration
Gada Mahrouse

8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
Donald Goellnicht

Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary

Contributors