Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement: Unsettling the Everyday and the Extraordinary [Hardcover]

List of figures and tables; Series Editors Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Transnational settlement; 2. Belonging: everyday and extraordinary conceptualizations; 3. Responding to trauma; 4. Responding to disasters; 5. Professional practice; 6. Conclusion; Index

This book examines the implications of belonging in numerous places. It positions refugee settlement as an ongoing transnational experience and identifies the importance of multiple belongings through case studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand, as well as sites in the US, Canada and the UK. Demonstrating the interplay between everyday and extraordinary experiences and challenging the notion that meaningful settlement necessarily needs to occur in local places, the author focuses on the extraordinary events of trauma and disasters alongside the everyday lives of refugees undertaking settlement, to honour the complexities of working with the trauma story and see beyond it.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315268958, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The image we have of refugees is one of displacement  from their homes, families and countries  and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in numerous and novel ways. At the same time, border regimes remain central in defining the possibilities and constraints of meaningful settlement. This book examines the implications of belonging in numerous places as increased mobilities and digital access create new global connectedness in uneven and unexpected ways.