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Reconfiguring Refugees: The Us Retreat from Responsibility-Sharing

Reconfiguring Refugees: The Us Retreat from Responsibility-Sharing

Hardcover

Religion General General Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1479827967
ISBN13: 9781479827961
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Aug 20 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Shows how domestic identity narratives and political polarization shape the sociopolitical response to refugees

The United States once played a major role in global refugee resettlement, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all refugees resettled worldwide. However, in recent years, it has dramatically cut refugee admissions and implemented discriminatory policies on refugee protection. These policies have been justified amid intensifying xenophobic rhetoric against specific groups.

In this book, Alise Coen explains why the monumental shift around refugee resettlement occurred, particularly in response to the high-profile conflict in Syria. She shows how refugees--and broader global migration debates--became contentious political issues in the US, revealing the many ways in which refugees have been increasingly weaponized as partisan symbols by Democrats and Republicans. The book calls attention to the power of rhetoric and identity narratives, and shows how the language used to talk about refugees fuels divisive

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