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- Title
Être plus que Corps. Figures des réfugiés dans l'espace public.
- Authors
Saillant, Francine; Truchon, Karoline
- Abstract
This article provides a reflection on the figure of refugees as well as their experiences in the Canadian humanitarian programme and the Quebec institutions that receive refugees. It identifies in particular three standard figures represented in the media, law and civil society. For each of these spheres, we analyse how the relations among the body, rights and suffering is organised, giving particular attention to the status of the subject and the voice of each of the three. A key point made in the analysis is that public testimonials become a mechanism of integration, connection and success when someone who has refugee status can depart from one of the standard figures, and thereby become an acting rights-bearing subject.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); CANADA; REFUGEES; CANADIAN humanitarian assistance; CIVIL society; MASS media; LEGAL status of refugees
- Publication
Lien Social et Politiques, 2008, Issue 59, p61
- ISSN
1204-3206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/018814ar