Vang and Hatton Publish Book on Critical Refugee Studies

Professors Ma Vang and Nigel Hatton and co-authors Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um and Lila Sharif published a book titled "Departures An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies." The book supports, contextualizes and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds.