ABSTRACT
Refugees are often approached as people whose experiences begin at exodus, and whose lives are defined by their politico-legal status. But refugees are not homogenous subjects, and forced migration does not eviscerate the past. In this chapter, Ramsay introduces the personalised logics from which refugees experience what it means to be displaced. Ramsay outlines how a cosmology of regeneration, that is, implicit logics that prioritise reproduction and motherhood, inform how refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other parts of the Central Africa region both experience displacement and seek to create a sense of refuge. It is through bearing and rearing children, specifically, that these refugees strive to construct better lives and futures of possibility.
