Providing the 1st interdisciplinary research of refugees within the Caribbean, relevant the US, and the USA, Asylum audio system relates present theoretical debates approximately hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the particular stipulations of refugees. In doing so, the writer weighs the questions of fact valueassociated with quite a few modes of witnessing to discover the functionality of testimonial discourse in developing refugee subjectivity in New global cultural and political formations. by means of studying literary works by means of such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodr¡guez Milans, theoretical paintings via Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, in addition to human rights files, executive records, images, and old reviews, Asylum audio system constructs a fancy photograph of recent global refugees that expands present discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives calls for us to reshape the bounds of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies.
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