Description:
An engagement with the works of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, International Political Theory and the Refugee Problem isa work of problem-driven political theory which explores "the refugee problem" as an epistemological and discursive construct.
Review Quotes:
'In this powerful book, Natasha Saunders challenges us to think about refugees in terms of their struggles for rights, sanctuary, and international mobility. Gone is the figure of the refugees as an abject humanitarian victim. Instead, Saunders provides the conceptual tools to perceive refugees as people enacting themselves as political beings. This is a bold and highly recommended intervention into the growing field of critical refugee studies.'-- Peter Nyers, Associate Professor of Political Science, McMaster University
'Saunders' brilliantly interrogates and in true Foucauldian fashion uniquely cuts the hard-shelled "refugee problem" in two to reveal the problem refugees face and the problem they are deemed to pose. Confronting the former, Saunders compellingly explores Arendt's thought and decidedly pragmatic efforts like sanctuary provisions to bring us ever closer to understanding how displaced persons might again find their place in the world.'-- Randy K. Lippert, Professor of Criminology, University of Windsor
'... fresh perspectives on how a research agenda in the political theory of immigration could be advanced in future - a topic that will certainly accompany the discipline in the upcoming years.'-- Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Contemporary Political Theory