Destination Detroit Discourses on the Refugee in a Post-Industrial City

Destination Detroit Discourses on the Refugee in a Post-Industrial City

Deindustrialized cities in the United States are at a particular crossroads when it comes to the contest over refugees. Do refugees represent opportunity or danger? These cities are in desperate need to stem population and resource loss, problems that an influx of refugees could seemingly help addre...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2024
Subjects:
Media studies
Refugees & political asylum
Society & culture: general
refugees, immigrants, Detroit Metropolitan area, Detroit, Metro Detroit, Syrian refugees, Dearborn, rhetoric on refugees, discourse on refugees, far right discourse, far right discourse on refugees, Hamtramck, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Arab Detroit, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, refugee agencies, museum exhibit on refugees, documentary on refugees, news coverage of refugees, political rhetoric on refugees, mainstreaming of far right discourse, messy cosmopolitanism, vernacular cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitanism from below, Orientalist discourse, counter discourse, Islamophobic discourse, Islamophobia, revitalizing cities, refugee as figure, refugee as template, refugee crisis, Syrian refugee crisis, fear of refugee, hospitality toward refugee, refugee other, immigrant other
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