Twelfth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

This study is a window into the particular kind of lived experience that refugees face as they adopt Tucson as their new home. While each individual’s story is unique and cannot be neatly generalized, the paper brings forth our attention to the common thread across these stories: the dialectics of desiring to integrate into their host community while also preserving who they are and remaining connected to the places from whence they fled. While the geopolitics of global refugee regime has garnered much scholarly and policy attention, the everyday fields of affective and lived experiences of people who are negotiating their places in a city, wrought with tensions and controversies surrounding its immigrant populations is under examined and this review fills the gap.