Y-Dang Troeung, an expert on critical refugee studies, joins Kalina Christoff to discuss what’s missing from the global refugee narrative – and the more complicated history revealed through combining scholarship and personal experience. Dr. Troeung is a professor of English at UBC and a 2020 Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Her book, Refugee Lifeworlds: Aphasia and the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, is forthcoming by Temple University Press.