“Refugee Literature”: What postcolonial theory has to say

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1. A link to the programme may be found here: http://www.litterature-comparee.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Prog_Refugee_Literature_Workshop_july_6_2017.pdf.

2. See Chambers and Gilmour (2018) for a selection of writings published between 2008 and 2017.

3. For instance, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) put into place an “environmental migration portal” and publishes, in association with universities, numerous studies on the subject: http://www.environmentalmigration.iom.int/#home. See also Gemenne, Ionesco, and Mokhnacheva (2016).

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Claire Gallien

Claire Gallien teaches in the English Department at University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 and is affiliated to the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She has published L’Orient anglais (2011) and a special issue of Commonwealth Essays and Studies on contemporary Anglo Arab literatures in English and in translation (2017). Her current book project is From Corpus to Canon: Eastern Literary Traditions and Orientalist Reconfigurations in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain. She is also co-editing A Critical Muse: The World Imaginaries of Islam. Her research interests are in the critical study of orientalist discourse, and postcolonial, comparative and world literatures and theories, as well as in translation studies and decolonial practices.