Refugees in a Global Era – Philip Marfleet

Disciplines & Framework

History, History & Origin, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Imperialism, Capitalism, Local & Global, Myth & Reality, New World Order, Statistics, Transnationalism

People & Phenomenon

Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Asylum & Refugee System, Migration, Exile & Exodus, Mobility & Immobility, Movement of People and Ideas, Freedom to Move and to Stay, Globalization, City & Urban, Refugee Repatriation, Refugee Urban Settlement, Community, Social Network, Solidarity, State Formation

Entities or Institutions

Nazi, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Identities & Beliefs

Gender, Woman and Femininity, Race, Nation, National Identity & Nationality, Belief & Disbelief

Things Refugees Have to Face

Politics & Power, Camps, Borders, Immigration Control, Immigration System, System, Global System, Exclusion, Legality & Illegality, Equality & Inequality, Detention, Prejudice, Discrimination, Battle & Conquest, War, Civil War, Conflict & Post-Conflict, Crisis / Crises, Crimes, Poverty, Destitution, Fragile State, Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Death & the Afterlife, Human Rights, Labor & Contract, Racism & Anti-Racism, Racist Nationalism, Slavery, Terror & Terrorism, Visibility & Invisibility, Authenticity

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Refugees — the pressing questions  /  Globalisation  /  Crisis and exclusion  /  Disciplinary perspectives  /  Borders  /  Asylum rights  /  Definitions  /  The problem of numbers

PART 1: DISORDERED WORLD

1. Globalisation and Forced Migration

Globalisation  /  New world order  /  The global system: myth and reality  /  Poverty  /  Movements of capital  /  Contradiction

2. Crisis of the State

States and migrants  /  ‘New’ emergencies — old problems  /  From reforms to riots  /  The IMF ‘menu’  /  Imposition of reform  /  Crisis and mass displacement

3. Migrants Old and New

Migration and inequality  /  Colonies and slaves  /  Indenture  /  Migrants and the state in Europe  /  America — ‘the asylum of freedom’  /  Patterns of migration  /  Imperial diaspora  /  Algeria — making colons  /  War and recession

4. Chain Migration to Forced Migration

New migrants  /  The search for labour  /  Impacts of the ‘long boom’  /  Chain migration  /  Migration networks  /  Community and reciprocity  /  Recession and migration  /  End of the ‘miracle’  /  ‘Nowhere to go’

PART 2: RIGHTS

5. Refugees and Rights

Origins  /  Rights  /  Nation-states  /  Huguenots — the ‘classic’ refugees  /  ‘Profitable strangers’  /  Exile  /  Exiles in Britain  /  ‘Image of Britannia’  /  ‘Race’ and nation  /  National identity

6. Towards Disaster

Menace from the East  /  Age of exclusion  /  The Nazi project  /  ‘Invaders’  /  Racism and exclusion  /  ‘Money speaks’

7. From Ambassadors to Aliens

Repatriation  /  Human rights  /  ‘Ambassadors’  /  ‘New’ refugees  /  ‘Invisible’ refugees  /  Hordes of aliens  /  Scapegoats  /  Balkan ‘ambassadors’

8. Legality and Authenticity

Who is ‘illegal’?  /  In praise of informal migrants  /  Amnesties  /  Coyotes  /  Capitalism’s ‘lubricant’  /  France: welcoming clandestins  /  Germany: from guestworkers  to refugees  /  Britain: legacy of empire  /  Unfree labour  /  Demographic deficit

PART 3: JOURNEYS AND DESTINATIONS

9. Displacement

Human agents  /  Women migrants  /  Containment  /  ‘Havens’  /  ‘Repackaging’ refugees  /  ‘Supertankers’  /  ‘Corrals’  /  Women in camps  /  Tabula rasa  /  ‘Warriors’  /  Moving on

10. Circuits of Migration

Transnational communities  /  Discourse on rights  /  Refugees ‘in orbit’  /  Urban refugees  /  City lives  /  Cairo  /  Destitution  /  Co-operation and competition  /  Culture of disbelief  /  Gatekeepers

11. Cultures of Terror, Cultures of Abuse

‘Demobilisation’  /  Low intensity conflict  /  Regimes of terror  /  Terror and the informal networks  /  Border controls in Europe  /  Debt bondage  /  Death at sea  /  Criminal or functionary?  /  Deception

12. Conclusion: Racism Without End?

Refugees and crime  /  Detention  /  The Australian option  /  ‘Boundless Plains’  /  Playing politics with refugees  /  Acts of war  /  Encampment  /  Official racism  /  State racism  /  From prejudice to solidarity  /  ‘Designer migrants’  /  Open borders

Bibliography

Index