ABSTRACT
Feminist theorists have a long relationship with Foucault, and their work has heavily infl uenced my understanding of the negative material impacts of marginal representations (Sawicki 1991; McLaren 2002; St Pierre 2004). My concerns for the negative representation of refugee women are informed by Foucault’s (2002a, 2002b) perspectives on discourse and representational norms while my proposal for interrupting these dominant representations through recourse to marginal voices (Foucault 1980) stems from Foucault’s (1990a, 82) ‘analytics of power’. My purpose in speaking to refugee women on the margins was ‘to contradict meanings and to produce new discourse’ (Sanguinetti 1999, 63).
