Refugees and political asylum

'I was filled with apprehension about crossing the front line, but I would have risked my life to save just one child.

It was only a forty-minute foreign film, but it sparked a legal confrontation that has left its mark on America for more than half a century.

A longitudinal study spanning six decades to map the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.

An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.

An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.

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

Demonstrates how civilian behaviour in conflict zones involves repertoires of survival strategies, not just migration.

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

Demonstrates how civilian behaviour in conflict zones involves repertoires of survival strategies, not just migration.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.

An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.

This timely study explores how societies have responded to mass inflows of refugees between 1945 and 2000.

This timely study explores how societies have responded to mass inflows of refugees between 1945 and 2000.

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

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

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

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

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel''s claim to Jewish identity.

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel''s claim to Jewish identity.

Revealing the role of discrimination in disasters challenges received wisdom about who is a refugee.

Revealing the role of discrimination in disasters challenges received wisdom about who is a refugee.

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

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

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

This is the only comprehensive political history of national ID card proposals and identity policing developments in the United States.

A novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention.

A novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention.

This book studies the misaligned priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.

This book studies the misaligned priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.

Examination of the worldwide emulation of key norms of European refugee protection through transnational processes and actors.

Examination of the worldwide emulation of key norms of European refugee protection through transnational processes and actors.

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

Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a ''just return'' process for repatriating refugees.

Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a ''just return'' process for repatriating refugees.

Explains why some refugee-hosting communities in Africa launch large-scale attacks on civilian refugees while others refrain, even when encouraged to do so by state officials.

Explains why some refugee-hosting communities in Africa launch large-scale attacks on civilian refugees while others refrain, even when encouraged to do so by state officials.

A practical guide for professionals and services supporting people seeking asylum, which explores their distinctive mental health needs.

A practical guide for professionals and services supporting people seeking asylum, which explores their distinctive mental health needs.

The story of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs uplifting the Za''atari refugee camp, and of the global refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon they represent.

The story of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs uplifting the Za''atari refugee camp, and of the global refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon they represent.

A practical and accessible manual providing a culturally sensitive approach to the treatment of PTSD and trauma more generally.

A practical and accessible manual providing a culturally sensitive approach to the treatment of PTSD and trauma more generally.

Doing Mission Responsibly among Refugees and MigrantsMigration has been a major source of change and a central feature in human development, but the sheer magnitude and relentlessness of migrant movements in recent decades defy easy analysis.

God is at work among refugees everywhere.

Doing Mission Responsibly among Refugees and MigrantsMigration has been a major source of change and a central feature in human development, but the sheer magnitude and relentlessness of migrant movements in recent decades defy easy analysis.

A dramatic true story of a man refined by fire, a Bruderhof pastor whose spiritual legacy continues to touch thousands.

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities.

After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Palestinian refugees fled over the border into Jordan, which in 1950 formally annexed the West Bank.