Refugees and Knowledge Production

Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary 'refugee scholarship', this book challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility.

Magdalena Kmak is a Professor of International Law with specialization in Migration and Minority Research at Åbo Akademi University, Finland and a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Heta Björklund has a PhD in Classics from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has previously worked as an editor at the Classical journal Arctos and is the co-editor of Roman Law and the Idea of Europe.

Introduction Part I: Beyond Methodological and Eurocentric Nationalism in Research on Scholarship 1. Methodological Nationalism and Migration Studies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 2. Refugee and Migrant Knowledge as Historical Narratives 3. Narratives on 'Refugee Knowledge' in the Institutions of Europe 4. The World as an Exiling Political Structure: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh's Conceptualisation of Exile Part II: Refugee Scholarship and Scholarly Identity 5. Exile and Emigration from the Third Reich: Stages and Results of Research in Germany 6. Personal and Academic Narratives of Exiled and Displaced Scholars 7. Refugee Scholars Then and Now 8. Beyond Authoritarianism: Migration, Uncertainty and a Sense of Belonging Among Public Intellectuals Part III: Silencing and Gatekeeping Knowledges 9. The Silenced Majority: Academic Refugees and the Vicissitudes of Readaptation 10. Reframing the Subject: Affective Knowledge in the Urgency of Refuge 11. Nursing Trauma, Harvesting Data: Refugee Knowledge and Refugee Labour in the International Humanitarian Regime