The book explores the historical and political trajectory of X-ray technology, focusing on how this seemingly neutral medical practice is entangled with systems of control, discipline, and violence. Through interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors examine how X-rays have been used not only for healing but also for surveillance, stigmatization, and the exposure of human bodies within […]
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“When I Am a President of Guinea”: Resettled Refugees Traversing Education in Search of a Future
This article explores how resettled refugees’ aspirations cultivated through education collide with post-schooling realities. We find that post-graduation barriers of financial insecurity, housing insecurity, violence and discrimination, and lack of critical awareness of unequal opportunity structures stand in the way of resettlement aspirations. We discuss how teachers and schools might be re-tooled to equip refugee […]
On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
On the Doorstep of Europe is an ethnographic study of the asylum system in Greece, tracing the ways asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability that emerge through this legal process. Cabot charts the structural violence effected through European governance, rights frameworks, and humanitarian intervention […]
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What does it mean to be a refugee?
About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning they fled their homes but are still in their own countries. Others, referred to as refugees, sought shelter outside their own country. But what does that term […]