The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research

In this intervention, I reflect on what it may mean to ‘humanize’ refugee research. The assumption often made is that ‘humanizing’ can arise through a concern with the particularity of individual, drawing from ‘the mass’ narrative singular and employing as means identify, , potentially understand others. Yet such move risks reliance creating relations empathy compassion elide political responses dehumanization relies constitutes category “the human,” an has been critically challenged by post-colonial writing.