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Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of refugee survival in Paris and Nairobi: shelter, work, and political belonging.

Bhagat's book makes sense of a global refugee regime along the contradictory fault lines of passive humanitarianism, violent exclusion, and organized abandonment in the European Union and East Africa.

Governing the Displaced highlights the interrelated and overlapping features of refugee governance and survival in these seemingly disparate places. In its intersectional engagement with theories of racial capitalism with respect to right-wing populism, labor politics, and the everyday forms of exclusion, the book is a timely and necessary contribution to the field of migration studies and to political economy.

ISBN-13: 9781501773617

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication Date: 02-15-2024

Pages: 186

Age Range: 18 Years

Ali Bhagat is PhD in Political Studies from Queen's University in Canada. He is a scholar of international political economy and works broadly in the field of global displacement.

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Joe Turner

Ali Bhagat analyses the part fantasy plays in refugee governance with nuance and insight. Governing the Displaced is a vital book that helps us understand how refugees are governed by being subjected to capitalist valuation and constructed as surplus populations.

Leila Talani

Governing the Displaced illuminates the multiple ways in which real refugees are required to adapt to the harsh reality of capitalism in order to survive, artfully weaving together theories of intersectionality, race and class, and feminist politics of the everyday.