Ali Zafer Sağıroğlu

Refugia is a utopian fiction, as its authors emphasize. By blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, the book aims to weave a network of solidarity among refugees as a way of meeting the basic needs of displaced people regardless of their locations. The authors radically criticize the current, conventional protection regime, which restricts people’s right to live in the land where they were born as well as the option of resettlement in the prosperous countries of the world. Such a proposal heartens authoritarian regimes that forcibly drive people out of their homeland, while also bringing us to the point where it is very pleasing to the developed states to contain only 15 percent of the world’s refugees.