Transits: Key Words for Critical Refugee Studies

Colloquium
Lan Duong,  Fiori Berhane,  Yen Espiritu,  Ma Vang  

We, at the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, are a group of interdisciplinary scholars who advocate for and envision a world where refugee rights are human rights. Committed to community-engaged scholarship, the Collective charts and builds the field of critical refugee studies by centering refugee lives– and the creative and critical potentiality that such lives offer. In addition to studying refugees, many Collective members are themselves refugees with long and deep ties to refugee communities. In this session, we each present on a "key word" in positing a different orientation in the Humanities as it relates to the figure of the refugee. "Transits" will be a dynamique colloquium that puts into place a new vocabulary to structure refugee discourse.