Book Review:Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples

Cottrell, Michael

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“…Meanwhile, the country was a refuge for the otherness of displaced East Asians, who embodied "the desirable neoliberal immigrant" (Ngo 2016, p. 67). As Ngo holds, they deferred "the political claims of Indigenous peoples and nonconforming racialized others" (Ngo 2016, p. 67;Coleman et al 2012). Vietnamese in Canada were henceforth "enshackled (sic) in an endless debt-payment relationship to the state and its imperial logics" (Nguyen 2013, p. 18).…”

Section: Benevolent Nation Narration and Cultural Correctives To Citi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Canada, the cultural production on and by refugees increasingly nuances the intersection of migrancy, citizenship, and sovereignty, with special attention paid to nationstate discourses of difference contention (Fleischmann and van Styvendale 2011;Coleman et al 2012;Sarkowsky 2018) 1 . Refugees' vulnerability pairs the challenges they have brought for the solidification of the ideological apparatuses of the nation-state.…”

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Philip Huynh’s The Forbidden Purple City: New Canadian Refugee Narratives and the Borders of the Socio-Political Community

Carmona-Rodríguez

2024

Humanities

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This paper examines Philip Huynh’s short story collection The Forbidden Purple City in relation to its engagement with the nativity–territory–citizenship triad on which Western socio-political communities found the principles of affiliation of their members. First, the Canadian reaffirmation of a discourse of national benevolence is contextualised to later draw on how the collection is nurtured by boundary-crossing ethics that interrogates any sequential relation between past and present, Vietnam and Canada, which usually structures refugee narratives. It is argued then that disruptive and productive time/space interconnections delegitimate any simplistic representations of easily assimilated grateful refugees, fracturing the convenient narration of Canada as a benefactor concerned with old and new international humanitarian causes. The newness of Huynh’s stories relies on their mobilisation of the discourse of state citizenship through exceptional migrancy and its disruptive border nature. In contrast to premises of birth and geographical territory, which lose ground as backbones of any affiliation, citizenship appears incomplete and processual. The stories use the precarious performativity of collective homogeneity expected of a former settler colony, like Canada, to launch agency and resistance to state homogenisation, and de-institutionalise the refugee subject to critically intervene sovereignty and political subjectivity. Finally, the stories evince that Canada’s social spectrum is ideal to explore the threshold opened by the adjacency of sameness and otherness embodied by Huynh’s protagonists. Their condition as diasporic refugee subjects augments the transformative potential of new refugee narratives, in which literal and metaphorical polymorphous borders unveil the bases of the contemporary Canadian socio-political community.

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Philip Huynh’s The Forbidden Purple City: New Canadian Refugee Narratives and the Borders of the Socio-Political Community

Carmona-Rodríguez

2024

Humanities

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“…In the 1400s, European settlers arrived on the coastlines of North America intending to conquer and colonize the land and Indigenous Peoples living there (Arnold, 2002;Joseph, 2018;RCAP, 1996;Strobel, 2015;TRC, 2015a). After nearly 400 years, the attempts of the European colonizers had largely failed, and Indigenous Peoples still prevailed despite the onslaught and substantial loss of their territories, freedom, and safety (Coleman et al, 2012;Stout & Kipling, 2003;Wuttunee, 2004). As a result, in 1876, the government of Canada enforced a federal law named the Indian Act, which would dictate all aspects of Indigenous legal and public life (Bartlett, 1978;Indian Act, 1985).…”

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Using the Biopsychosocial Framework to Address the Ongoing Impacts of the Indian Residential School System and Colonization in Canadian Health Care Systems

St. James,

Paul

2023

hpj

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Traumatic experiences during childhood can have significant, detrimental impacts on physical and mental health and negatively impact social functioning in adulthood. Such an understanding is imperative to providing adequate and well-informed health care to Indigenous populations residing on the land now called Canada. The Indian Residential School (IRS) system, which was in operation for over one hundred years, was one of the most violent colonial tactics implemented by Canada's federal government. This system was conceptualized to forcibly alienate Indigenous children from their families, communities, and culture to eradicate Indigenous culture and identity. Combined with witnessing violent acts perpetrated by colonizers against members of their community, the shared experience of being abducted from their families, and suffering physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse, led to widespread trauma amongst Indigenous people for generations. It is expected that such trauma has resulted in disruptions in attachment, social functioning and emotional development in individuals who survived the Indian Residential School system, thus potentially triggering a cascade of maladaptive, trauma-related behaviours through subsequent generations (termed intergenerational trauma). These writers recommend that healthcare providers consult a biopsychological framework when engaging with Indigenous individuals, especially Indian Residential School survivors and their relatives, as it emphasizes the multidirectional relationship between psychological, biological, and experiential factors implicated in an individual's well-being. Furthermore, such a framework may aid in contextualizing an individual's unique challenges within the broader scope of colonization.

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“…Some scholars have espoused a counter-narrative of refugee resilience (Coleman, 2012;Simich and Andermann, 2014). Challenging the ubiquity of trauma, proponents of the refugee resilience perspective argue that "[t]hough challenging to survive under [severe] circumstances, many refugees do survive in their adopted lands, and many even thrive" (Simich and Andermann, 2014, p. 2).…”

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A Critical Reflexive Account From Participatory Theater With Asylum Seekers: Lessons for Framing Trauma and Resilience in Refugee Status Determination

Misra

2020

Front. Commun.

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Critical Health Communication scholars can play a significant role in the asylum seeking process by expanding the legal understanding of migrant trauma. Legal processes like Refugee Status Determination (RSD) define the course of an asylum seeker's life. Legal determinations hinge on the persuasiveness of narratives of persecution to decide on the legitimacy of asylum claims. Participatory methods, such as participatory theater, either support or resist legal processes by drawing on narratives of trauma or community engagement, respectively. Methods that rely on trauma narratives validate notions of individual suffering, while methods that use community engagement address the social and communal dimensions of health, including isolation. This essay develops a critical, reflexive account of my situated practices as a theater practitioner working with asylum seekers, and later, as a character reference for my participants' legal claim. I show how participatory projects focusing exclusively on promoting migrant resilience through participation can fail to engage with the power that RSD has to determine the course of migrant lives. Importantly, the legal framework of RSD frames an asylum seeker's every move through the lens of persecution and trauma. As my critical reflections demonstrate, participatory practitioners working with asylum seekers must be aware of how the goals of their engagement may interact with the limitations of the legal process. Such awareness demands strategic forms of engagement aimed at shaping the legal understanding of migrant trauma and persecution.

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Book Review:Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples

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Philip Huynh’s The Forbidden Purple City: New Canadian Refugee Narratives and the Borders of the Socio-Political Community

Philip Huynh’s The Forbidden Purple City: New Canadian Refugee Narratives and the Borders of the Socio-Political Community

Using the Biopsychosocial Framework to Address the Ongoing Impacts of the Indian Residential School System and Colonization in Canadian Health Care Systems

A Critical Reflexive Account From Participatory Theater With Asylum Seekers: Lessons for Framing Trauma and Resilience in Refugee Status Determination

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