https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/SOCL5025?type=COREThis is a course about 'refugees' and it is also a course about political and economic structures of marginalisation. "Refugees' tend to be produced by historical, legal, anthropological, sociological and political scholarship as a distinct population and/or an area of study. 'Refugees' in all these disciplines tend to be studied as a population whose production and reproduction are of a very different order to that of 'domestic' populations within a nation-state. That is, an emphasis on state-centred national histories, and methodological nationalism, are used to 'externalise' refugees as 'strangers' to a state. This is to the detriment of relational sociological and anthropological accounts that seek to de-naturalise inside/outside boundaries and to class-based analyses of common marginalisations of groups similarly positioned before state-territorial and capitalist power.One aim of the course is to use this production of 'refugeeness' as a lens to understanding processes of state-making and its intersections with capitalism. A second aim of the course is to consider the connections between refugees and other 'subaltern populations'. If we do not begin from the starting point that refugees are a discrete and coherent population, what can we say about the 'common marginalisations' experienced politically and historically by subaltern groups including refugees?