Place as Performance: Humanistic Geography and a New Theory of Refugee Resettlement

• In Event: Political Theory and Im(migration)

Brief Overview

This paper applies humanistic geography to understanding refugee resettlement. Moving past traditional understandings, we draw on Million (1992) and Tang (2015) to examine how people develop a sense of place while being displaced.

Authors

• Shyam Krishnan Sriram, Canisius College

• Thomas Larsen, University of Northern Iowa