ABSTRACT
This chapter will draw together the book's central thesis: that we must better understand the nuanced meanings of refugee voice to understand how displaced and resettled individuals in conditions of long-term precarity participate in highly regulated media environments. This concluding chapter explains how the work in this book allows us to understand how refugees construct their sense of self in these spaces, especially when given the opportunity to represent themselves through creative mediation, usually heralded as emancipatory forms of expression. Refugees’ representations of themselves are often produced in environments pre-designed for them but not with them. By better understanding these processes of engagement and representation, we can better understand how refugees might speak in ways valuable to them, rather than in ways that are merely valuable to others. In so doing, we can open up new possibilities for alternative, more valuable and useful opportunities for expression by refugees.
