ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on social justice and how it informs the horizons of what is possible to know about refugees on local and transnational levels. It emphasizes a critical engagement with numerous representations of the refugee background communities as a traumatized group and the primacy placed upon extraordinary stories predicated in the past. The book discusses the refugee settlement needs to be conceptualized as an ongoing transnational experience. The dynamic between positive and negative factors in transnational settlement is complex and context-specific. The book examines throughout that both everyday and extraordinary stories are important. It describes that, if people with refugee status are presented as outsiders through a predominant emphasis on the extraordinary, they will remain precisely that - outsiders relegated to the peripheries of civil society.