Refuge 32.1 (Special Issue) Print Copy
Journal: Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge
Year: 2016

ago suggested that aesthetic expression is what makes us human, 2 both reflecting and shaping our social selves. However, the complex implications of Maquet's insight have often been overlooked in the study of forced migration, as even those voices of refugees, exiles, and forced migrants that have been sought by aid agencies and scholars often have been used exclusively in terms of passivity and vulnerability. Rarely has scholarship with the displaced explored the aesthetic expression of other