Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of refugee survival in Paris and Nairobi: shelter, work, and political belonging.

Bhagat's book makes sense of a global refugee regime along the contradictory fault lines of passive humanitarianism, violent exclusion, and organized abandonment in the European Union and East Africa.

Governing the Displaced highlights the interrelated and overlapping features of refugee governance and survival in these seemingly disparate places. In its intersectional engagement with theories of racial capitalism with respect to right-wing populism, labor politics, and the everyday forms of exclusion, the book is a timely and necessary contribution to the field of migration studies and to political economy.

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Ali Bhagat is PhD in Political Studies from Queen's University in Canada. He is a scholar of international political economy and works broadly in the field of global displacement.

We are living in a moment of unprecedented displacement. Yet instead of astounding viewers or shocking elites into action, these images have become nearly normal. In Governing the Displaced, Bhagat actively works against this desensitization by focusing on a distinct and often hidden dimension of forced displacement: the struggle for survival that begins after the moment of expulsion and continues long after resettlement, as displaced people make new homes, search for new livelihoods, and reformulate their aspirations and fantasies in unfamiliar nations where anti-migrant sentiments form a hostile backdrop for these life-making activities.

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