Kinder has recently completed research for her forthcoming book, Invisible Exile: The Travel Writing of Displacement (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), which analyzes stories of invisible exile—her name for an intersectional and ubiquitous but largely unacknowledged form of displacement born of class, gender, sexuality, religion, race, ability, and trauma. During the last two decades, stories of invisible exile have revolutionized life history writing, simultaneously creating a rich new evidence base for interrogating how place and space intersect with questions of belonging, exclusion, and self-reinvention. Invisible Exile analyzes forty life history narratives that illustrate the spatial journeys people take into, through, and partially out of exile on their road to healing.

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