Refugees and political asylum

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known.

Das vorliegende Heft gibt einen Einblick in die Displaced-Persons-Forschung (DPs) in Österreich und Deutschland.

This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum.

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women.

Jordan stands in the middle of a turbulent region, experiencing substantial refugee flows and economic challenges due to the conflict and insecurity of its neighbors.

Systematic and critical examination of Chinese refugee law and policy including information acquired from interviews and field visits.

Alali erzählt von einem Paar, das sich liebt.

Drawing on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe.

Studierende von Freiburger Hochschulen übernehmen im Rahmen des Projekts SALAM (Spielen - Austauschen - Lernen - Achtsam - Miteinander) die Patenschaft für ein Kind im Alter von 8 bis 11 Jahren und treffen sich über einen Zeitraum von acht Monaten einmal wöchentlich zur gemeinsamen Freizeitgestaltung.

Winner of the Counter Current Award at the 2023 Palestine Book AwardsAll national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and borders.

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century.

This book examines the history of refugees in order to explore their place in international politics.

This book explores the realities behind the Palestinian exodus of 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war.

A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of traumaOn July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead.

Unterschiedliche Religionen, Traditionen und Sprachen sind seit jeher Realität in Deutschland.

International Migration Law provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the international legal framework applicable to the movement of persons across borders.

Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world.

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences.

Was unsere Sehnsucht nach Heimat mit uns macht - eine Zeit-Diagnose.

A collection of expert essays analysing the AFSJ and its implications from the point of view of fundamental rights.

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.

The story of Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban refugees they flew to safety, told in collaboration with founding member Jos BasultoThere was a time in Miami when it seemed impossible to go through a week without news coverage of the men, women, and children escaping Cuba and being pulled off of makeshift rafts in the middle of the Florida Straits.

Defends the current laws limiting asylum to those fearing persecution.

*Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border?

In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe.

We are making little territories in your country, a hostile take-over of your garden sheds, your abandoned houses and your toilets.

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A mighty achievement' OCEAN VUONG'Beautiful, brilliant' R.

The title of this book, Refugee Performance, suggests there is a constituency of practices that might be unified under a definite term or god forbid to propose a new field of study.

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.

God is at work among refugees everywhere.

In the past twenty years, over 25 million refugees have returned 'home'.

Through an examination of interviews provided by 100 children of refugees in Cyprus, born after their family's displacement, Hadjiyanni illustrates the formation of a refugee consciousness, an identity adopted by many children who never experienced the actual displacement of their family.

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

This book documents how global advocacy on behalf of refugees has failed, and proposes a new strategy using social entrepreneurship.

Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle Eastrecovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, ';pacifying' the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood.

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States.

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp.

The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always moved in search of safety, and they always will.

Conflict and war, but most of all overwhelming despair are driving massive numbers of mostly young people from the Middle East and North Africa, Central Africa, the Balkan, Ukraine and Central Asia to leave their homes for Europe in search of safety.

Refugees lie at the heart of world politics.

'Africa's refugee and IDP camps are a cause of major concern to the international community.

Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle Eastrecovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, ';pacifying' the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood.

Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "e;Where are you from?