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Abstract
In this intervention, I reflect on what it may mean to ‘humanize’ refugee research. The assumption often made is that ‘humanizing’ can arise through a concern with the particularity of the individual, through drawing from ‘the mass’ the narrative of the singular and employing this as a means to identify, , and potentially understand others. Yet such a move risks a reliance on creating relations of empathy and compassion that elide political responses to dehumanization and often relies on a assumption of what constitutes the category of “the human,” an assumption that has been critically challenged by post-colonial writing.
Keywords:
- humanization,
- refugee studies,
- refugee mobility,
- race
Résumé
Dans cette intervention, je réfléchis à ce que pourrait signifier d’ la recherche sur les réfugiés. On suppose souvent que l’humanisation» peutémerger à travers une attention à la particularité de l’individu, en puisant dans la le récit singulier et en utilisant ceci comme moyen de s’identifier, de compatir et potentiellement de comprendre les autres. Cependant, par un tel geste on court le risque de miser sur le recours à la création de relations d’empathie et de compassion qui passe outre à une réponse politique à la déshumanisation et qui repose sur une présomption universaliste de ce qui constitue la catégorie de l’, présomption qui a été remise en question par les écrits postcoloniaux.
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