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Davies, Dominic and Candida Rifkind, eds. Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics. Crossing Lines. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2025. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781771126915
BibTeX citation key: Davies2025
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Keywords: Collection of essays, Migration, Themes and motives
Creators: Davies, Rifkind
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press (Waterloo)		 Views: 931/1086
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Abstract
Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South. Co-written by two leading scholars of nonfiction comics, the book explores graphic narratives about a range of refugee experiences, from war, displacement, and perilous sea crossings to detention camps, resettlement schemes, and second-generation diasporas.
Through close readings of work by diverse artists including Joe Sacco, Sarah Glidden, Don Brown, Olivier Kugler, Jasper Rietman, Hamid Sulaiman, Leila Abdelrazzaq, Thi Bui, and Matt Huynh, Graphic Refuge shows how comics challenge dominant representations of the displaced to bring a radical politics of refugee agency and refusal into view. Beyond simply affirming the “humanity” of the refugee, these comics demand that we apprehend the historical construction of categories such as “citizen” and “refugee” through systems of empire, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism. The comics medium allows readers not only to visualize the lives of refugees but also refocuses the lens on citizen non-refugees—“we who can sleep under warm cover at night”, as Vinh Nguyen writes in his foreword—and interrogates their perceptions, aspirations, and beliefs.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword (Vinh Nguyen)

Introduction (Davies and Rifkind)

PART ONE: THE SEA AND THE CAMP 
Chapter One: Clandestine Crossings: Refugee Comics at Sea (Davies)
Chapter Two: The Postdocumentary Turn: Refugee Camp Comics (Rifkind)

PART TWO: VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter Three: Unknown Knowns: Refugee Comics and the War on Terror (Davies)
Chapter Four: Digital Humanitarianism: Interactive Refugee Comics(Rifkind)

PART THREE: RUINS AND REFUGE 
Chapter Five: Remote Sensing: Refugee Comics in Ruins (Davies) 
Chapter Six: Diasporic Displacements: Second-Generation Refugee Comics (Rifkind)

Epilogue: Refuge Comics (Davies and Rifkind)

Bibliography
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Index


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