Narrating Citizenship and Belonging in Anglophone Canadian Literature

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

“…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.…”