Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art

Espiritu, Yến Lê; Duong, Lan

doi:10.1086/695300

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“…The three poems under scrutiny in this study are about refugees' experience by exrefugees, i.e., Warsan Shire and Yovanka Paquete Pedrigao, and the involvement of nonrefugee who is also a poet/refugee activist A. E. Stallings. All of them are women, which help the study to interpret refugee's experiences in their viewpoints whose political forces operate within the site of intimate domestic interaction and queer sociality (Le Espiritu & Duong, 2018). The selection of the poems is to highlight the personal history and recollection of memory as a reconstructed knowledge.…”

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“…Feminist Refugee Epistemology in Scrutiny of "The Icebreaker", "Home", and "Empathy" Le Espiritu & Duong (2018) criticize public hyperfocus on refugees' suffering instead of doing a more in-depth analysis of the geopolitical cause of their displacement. This becomes the point of departure to see the out-of-sight struggles the refugees took to overcome the effect of war Hyndman (2010) and Lubkemann (2008) in Le Espiritu & Duong (2018). In line with the reconceptualization of war-based displacement, the FRE-shaped interpretation on the three poems: "The Icebreaker"; "Home"; and "Empathy", tries to investigate the portrayal of refugees as a subject who can construct their meaningmaking and tell their authentic experience as an act of struggle as well as survival decisionmaking.…”

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“…The three poems are scrutinized and interpreted by the help of Feminist Refugee Epistemology (henceforth FRE) that is introduced by Espiritu & Duong. To resist the portrayal of refugees as the utmost sufferers and naturalized victims of military brutality, Le Espiritu & Duong (2018) propose FRE to reconceptualize war-based displacement as social reproduction and innovation. Borrowing the viewpoint of feminist epistemology, FRE places the refugees' position as the marginal, the oppressed, and the excluded whose personal experiences are the site of power contestation and reproduction (Shalhoub-Kevorkian in Le Espiritu & Duong, 2018).…”

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“…Stallings. Those excerpts are interpreted through Feminist Refugee Epistemology (FRE), which according to Espiritu (2018), "reveals the hidden political forces within the site of intimate domestic interaction in each refugee's unique experiences and queer sociality." The study concluded that poems of and by refugees could facilitate the forced-migrants' aspiration and create alternative knowledge as opposed to their common objectification in mass-media reports.…”

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The Subjectivity of Forced-migrant in Poems of and by Refugees

Rahayu

2020

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Refugees' perilous experiences force them to flee home for safety. Their arrival from home country to the host country is not only often reduced to be a statistical number in factual reports but also seen as threats to national well-being. The study aims to provide the argument that poems provide a symbol of resistance towards refugees' given fate, and offer a platform for them to create their authentic version of knowledge. Poems are chosen to be analyzed in this study as they can mediate the refugees' unique experiences and their struggle to cope with the changing condition. The study argues that poems of and by refugees can serve as strategic means of preserving memories that connect them with their past, which shape their present and construct an alternative subjectivity against objectification and stereotypes pinned to them. Poems analyzed in this research are 'Home' by Warsan Shire, 'The Icebreaker' by Yovanka Paquete Perdigao, and 'Empathy' by A.E. Stallings. Those excerpts are interpreted through Feminist Refugee Epistemology (FRE), which according to Espiritu (2018), "reveals the hidden political forces within the site of intimate domestic interaction in each refugee's unique experiences and queer sociality." The study concluded that poems of and by refugees could facilitate the forced-migrants' aspiration and create alternative knowledge as opposed to their common objectification in mass-media reports.

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Refugee life making: (Re)Centering the refugee narrative through feminist refugee epistemology

Saelua

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Utilizing feminist refugee epistemology (FRE), this article explores the ways in which refugee youth and their parents engage their histories and enact their politics and desires as they negotiate their resettlement, education, and the pursuit of life in Colorado. Specifically, this article seeks to (re)center the researcher gaze from refugees as sites of trauma or as objects of rescue toward the everyday, intimate moments of life‐making. This study was conducted in partnership with a local community‐based organization focused on serving the local refugee population. Ten refugee youth, ages 13–17, and their parents (one parent for each student; N = 20) participated in semi‐structured interviews ranging from 45 to 60 minutes. Findings reveal how refugee mothers make life and, in doing so, support their children's educational pursuits. We consider the practical implications of this study to inform the creation of culturally responsive educational environments to support greater opportunities for these growing populations.

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