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Publication Date
5-1-2024
Journal
Health Promotion Practice
Abstract
From a critical refugee studies orientation, our article redefines care within the context of myriad forms of state violence impacting Southeast Asian post-war refugee communities. Research reveals how harm is compounded at every step of Southeast Asian refugee journeys: war, forced displacement, resettlement, family separation, inherited health conditions, and generational trauma. How do we reckon with refugee trauma without conceding to it as an unchangeable fact of our lives? What knowledge might we gain by attending to the everyday work of survival in refugee communities? To answer these questions, the authors conceptualize care through (a) abolitionist organizing, (b) queer kinship and affective labor, (c) historiographic caretaking, and (d) refugee reunion.
Keywords
care, Southeast Asian, critical refugee studies, kinship, reunion, organizing, interdependence, trauma
DOI
10.1177/15248399231164411
PMID
36999641
PMCID
PMC11064460
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
May 2023
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Published Open-Access
yes
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