A Desperately-Needed Anthropological Perspective on Refugees: A Conversation with Sophia Balakian about Her Brilliant New Book, “Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship”
A conversation with Sophia Balakian about her brilliant new book, “Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship.” Sophia concludes our conversation with this timely assertion: “The normalization of dehumanizing rhetoric and violence against immigrant communities, people who are undocumented, and those who support them has to be continually unsettled and undermined using whatever tools we have.”
