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Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies
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This study of two seemingly counter-intuitive phenomena—‘involuntary immobility’ and ‘socially fortuitous wartime migration’—seeks to reveal important limitations in the theoretical framing of the interdisciplinary field of forced migration/refugee studies. In the Mozambican context, I demonstrate that the forms of disruption and disempowerment usually attributed to wartime movement were more often produced by involuntary immobility than by migration per se; even while wartime migration paradoxically resulted in forms of empowerment for at least some social actors. I argue that the implicit conflation of migration with displacement that currently serves as the definitional point of departure in forced migration/refugee studies, not only renders invisible an entire category of people who suffer a form of ‘displacement in place’ through involuntary immobilization, but also distorts our analysis of the experience of wartime migrants themselves.
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- Authors
- Lubkemann, S. C.
- Venue
- Journal of Refugee Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-11-23
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 454-475
- ISSN
- 0951-6328 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6925
- OpenAlex
- W2000977543
- Cited by
- 282
- References
- 15
- FWCI
- 9.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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