À propos de la conférence
In this presentation, I argue for the use of refugee citizenship as a concept to analyse the kind of citizenship sought after, and experienced, by refugees in a protracted situation who want to retain some aspects of refugeehood in order to continue to fight for an endangered homeland. The argument is based on fieldwork conducted in 2019 with young Tibetans in Toronto who refer to themselves as Tibetan-Canadians or Canadian-Tibetans. Their experience of a dual affiliation, being both Canadian citizens and Tibetan refugees, informs the discussion of how a homeland cause can lead refugees in a protracted situation to have an ambivalent, insider/outsider, position vis-à-vis the newly acquired citizenship of the (usually Western) host country.
Zoom: https://ulaval.zoom.us/j/8892424519?pwd=TFBKS3ZmRFppZmVNWUZJaXBpR1djQT09
À propos de la conférencière : Anne-Sophie Bentz (Université Paris Cité/ CESSMA)
Anne-Sophie Bentz is Associate Professor of South Asian History at Université Paris Cité (since 2012) and Fellow at IC Migrations (since 2018). She received her PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (2009). She taught International Relations at the University of Toulouse (2009-2011) before taking a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Zurich’s “Asia and Europe” programme (2011-2012). Her research focuses on nationalism and postcolonial theories, as well as refugee and diaspora politics. Her thesis, entitled ‘Nationalism in Exile: Tibetan Refugees in India’ (in French, published in 2010 by the Presses Universitaires de France), focuses on the relations between nationalism and exile by means of a case study on Tibetan refugees in India. She is also the author of several articles and book chapters on other refugee communities in India (Afghan, Burmese and Sri Lankan) and on South Asian refugees in the West (Canada and France). She has recently edited two special issues on South Asian migrants (2021 and 2022) and is currently principal investigator of a project on political mobilisation in exile (IC Migrations).
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