Displacement, Borders, and Unsettling Narratives: Critical Directions for Higher Education (Politics of Citizenship and Migration)

By: Samuel J. Spiegel and Blessing Mucherera and Sidra Idrees and Francesco Moze and Kanak Rajadhyaksha and Boel McAteer and Thabani Mutambasere and Georgia Cole and Jean-Benoit Falisse and Savan Qadir

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Synopsis: This short book discusses some of the urgent critical debates regarding intercultural education on displacement during turbulent times of contentious border politics and ramped-up anti-migrant discourse. Drawing on original research and teaching insights from a team of co-authors from Pakistan, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Italy, India, Canada, the UK and beyond who are involved in teaching students from more than two dozen countries, it focuses on experiences of teaching in the midst of controversial refugee detention and deportation schemes – just some of many developments in the United Kingdom condemned strongly by several United Nations agencies. The authors’ analysis engages reflections, from diverse backgrounds and positionalities, on approaches to education that seek to deepen understandings of displacement experiences in an interconnected world as well as geopolitical responses, methodologies and representational practices.