Introduction, Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes Woolley
Part I. Refugee Genealogies
Introduction, Lyndsey Stonebridge
- Refugees in Modern World History, Peter Gatrell
- Theories of the Refugee, After Hannah Arendt, Ned Curthoys
- A Genealogy of Refugee Writing, Arthur Rose
- Genres of Refugee Writing, Anna Bernard
Part II. Asylum
Introduction, Agnes Woolley
- Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law, Sudeep Dasgupta
- Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims, Anthony Good
- The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and The City, Alison Jeffers
Part III. The Border
Introduction, Emma Cox
- Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border, Agnes Woolley
- Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours, Liam Connell
- The Digital Border: the Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 Migration 'Crisis', Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
Part IV. Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement
Introduction, Sam Durrant
- The 'Dead Road', Displacement, and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone, Maureen Moynagh
- 'What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?': Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar's The Return, Norbert Bugeja
- 'A Man Carries His Door': Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry, Douglas Robinson
- Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole, Byron Santangelo
Part V. The Camp
Introduction, Emma Cox
- Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps), Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
- Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp, Madelaine Hron
Part VI. Sea Crossings
Introduction, David Farrier
- Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy, Joseph Pugliese
- The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery, Hakim Abderrezak
- 'Island is no arrival': Migrants' Islandment at the Borders of Europe, Mariangela Palladino
- At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees, Parvati Nair
Part VII. Digital Territories
Introduction, Agnes Woolley
- Networked narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Mary Mitchell
- Refugee writing, refugee history: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War, Dima Saber and Paul Long
- Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees, Btihaj Ajana
- The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness, Gillian Whitlock & Rosanne Kennedy
Part VIII. Home
Introduction, David Farrier
- Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen, Daniel Hartley
- Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, Mireille Rosello
- Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village, Misha Myers and Mariam Issa
Part IX. Open Cities
Introduction, Sam Durrant
- 'Another Politics of the City': Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism, Jonathan Darling
- The Welcome City?, Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite
- In the City's Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community, André Grahle
- Open/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life, Sam Durrant