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This book examines the politics of making and unmaking refugees at
various scales by probing the contradictions between the principles
of international statecraft, which focus on the national/state
level approach in regulating global forced displacement, and the
forces that defy this state-based approach. It explores the ways by
which the current global refugee categorizes and excludes millions
of people who need protection. The investigations in this book move
beyond the state scale to draw attention to the finer scales of
displacement and forced mobility in the various, complex spaces of
migration and asylum. By bringing refugees stories to the
forefront, the chapters in this volume highlight diasporic activism
and applaud the corresponding ingenuity and tenacity. This book
also builds upon debates on the critical geopolitical
understandings of states, displacement and bordering to advance
theoretical understandings of refugee regimes as a critical
geopolitical issue. With this collection, the contributors invite a
more sustained conversation that draws attention to and focusses on
the current global refugee crisis and the violence of exclusion of
that same regime. This highly engaging and informative volume will
be of interest to policymakers, academics and students concerned
with global migration, refugee governance and crises. The chapters
in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Geopolitics.
This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of
Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely
deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads. It
speaks to the experiences of many societies and cultures that are
routinely treated as exotic, romantic, primitive or otherwise
different and Other in Euro-American imaginaries, and how these
imaginaries are also internally produced by those societies
themselves. The assumption that Mongolia is a nomadic nation is
largely predicated upon Mongolia's environmental and climatic
conditions, which are understood to make Mongolia suitable for
little else than pastoral nomadism. But to the contrary, the
majority of Mongolians have been settled in and around cities and
small population centers. Even Mongolians who are herders have long
been unable to move freely in a smooth space, as dictated by the
needs of their herds, and as they would as free-roaming "nomads."
Instead, they have been subjected to various constraints across
time that have significantly limited their movement. The book
weaves threads from disparate branches of Mongolian studies to
expose various visible and invisible constraints on population
mobility in Mongolia from the Qing period to the post-socialist
era. With its in-depth analysis of the complexities of the
relationship between land rights, mobility, displacement, and the
state, the book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of
cultural geography, political geography, heritage and culture
studies, as well as Eurasian and Inner-Asian Studies. Winner of the
Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award (AAG, 2022)
This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of
Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely
deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads. It
speaks to the experiences of many societies and cultures that are
routinely treated as exotic, romantic, primitive or otherwise
different and Other in Euro-American imaginaries, and how these
imaginaries are also internally produced by those societies
themselves. The assumption that Mongolia is a nomadic nation is
largely predicated upon Mongolia's environmental and climatic
conditions, which are understood to make Mongolia suitable for
little else than pastoral nomadism. But to the contrary, the
majority of Mongolians have been settled in and around cities and
small population centers. Even Mongolians who are herders have long
been unable to move freely in a smooth space, as dictated by the
needs of their herds, and as they would as free-roaming "nomads."
Instead, they have been subjected to various constraints across
time that have significantly limited their movement. The book
weaves threads from disparate branches of Mongolian studies to
expose various visible and invisible constraints on population
mobility in Mongolia from the Qing period to the post-socialist
era. With its in-depth analysis of the complexities of the
relationship between land rights, mobility, displacement, and the
state, the book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of
cultural geography, political geography, heritage and culture
studies, as well as Eurasian and Inner-Asian Studies. Winner of the
Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award (AAG, 2022)
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