@article{ref1,
title="Stolen lives: what the dead teach us",
journal="Death studies",
year="2020",
author="Fregoso, Rosa-Linda",
volume="44",
number="11",
pages="736-745",
abstract="This paper questions the utility the social category of &quot;refugee&quot; as defined by international human rights discourse. The notion of &quot;racializing assemblages&quot; supplies an analytic tool for situating the deportation machine and mass incarceration of refugees/asylum seekers as &quot;death spaces&quot; within modern Western humanity. Building on discussions related to &quot;political death,&quot; &quot;social death&quot; and &quot;muertas en vida&quot; (living dead), this paper explores an alternative framing of &quot;the refugee&quot; that relies less on human rights and more on other forms of emancipation. The history of &quot;African American fugitivity&quot; offers one possibility for reclaiming another articulation of freedom from persecution and enslavement.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-1187",
doi="10.1080/07481187.2020.1771856",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1771856"
}