In the next series of posts, I want think through Canada's Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program. This series is part of my broader project on Hannah Arendt's conception of the rootlessness of refugees, the condition in which refugees are uprooted from their geographic, cultural, and political homes. In this post, I want to ask a few questions about the conceptual work "the private" is doing in PSR using Arendt's view of the public/private distinction. In later posts, I want to … [Read more...]