Introduction
Sabeen Ahmed and Lisa Madura
Acknowledgments
Part I: Humanitarianism and Human Rights
1. Refugees and the Politics of Indignity
David Owen
2. Refugees and the Right to Politics
Nöelle McAfee
3. Humanitarian Melancholia: Humanitarianism and the Need for Morality of Thinking
Mladjo Ivanovic
Part II: Hospitality, Care, and Responsibility
4. Hospitality and the Political Economy of Care
Lisa Madura
5. Welcoming Refugees: Mindful Citizenship and the Political Responsibility of Hospitality
Jade Schiff
6. On the Limits of Hospitality: Arendt and Balibar on a Universal Right to Politics
Peg Birmingham
Part III: Refugee Detention and Exclusion Today
7. Abolish Refugee Detention: Rethinking International Law and Carceral Humanitarianism
Kelly Oliver
8. Beyond the Ethics of Admission: Statelessness, Refugee Camps, and Moral Obligations
Serena Parekh
9. Critiquing Agamben’s Refugee: The Ontological Decolonization of Homo Sacer
Sabeen Ahmed
Part IV: Experiences of Immigration
10. Political Refugees and Economic Migrants: A Distinction Without a Difference?
Chong Choe-Smith
11. The Rights of Immigrants and the Duties of Nations: On Cesar Chavez, Transnational Justice, and the Temporality of Rights
Eduardo Mendieta
12. The Origin that Never Was: The Loss of Heimat and New Beginnings
Gertrude Postl
13. Strangers to Ourselves: Contemporary Horizons
Julia Kristeva, translated by Lisa Walsh
Part V: Listening to Refugee Voices
14. I Am Not Your Canvas: Narratives, Nostalgia, and the (Re)claiming of Refugee Voices
Anna Gotlib
15. How to be a Refug(e)e for a Stranger?
Esther Huftless and Elisabeth Schaefer
16. Echotext. Between Here and There. A Meteoric Meditation: In Response to “How to be a Refuge(e) for a Stranger?”
Eva-Maria Aigner
Bibliography
Index