Approaching Refugee Experiences from a Transcultural Societal Studies Perspective
Fellow Project Academic Year
2006
From a state-side perspective, refugees and displaced persons have been considered in the 20th century as objects of special admission programs and as targets of support and rehabilitation measures. From a "human agency"-perspective, refugees as subjects have to and want to re-establish continuity in interrupted life-courses.
Fellow Project Principal Investigator
Dirk Hoerder, Full Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universitaet Bremen, Germany, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, ASU North American Center for Transborder Studies