Refugees and political asylum

Showler uses satire to expose the prejudices, myopia, ignorance, provincialism, and lack of sensitivity that mark the decisions of officials.

Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets.

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.

The first-ever biography of Mozhdah Jamalzadah: refugee, pop singer, and champion of womens rights.

Media interest in the fates of people at sea has heightened across the last decade.

On Stony Ground presents a historical ethnographic account of a generation of Mennonites from the Soviet Union who, following Russia's revolution and civil war, immigrated to Manitoba during the 1920s.

These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout.

In 1940, when Hitler's tanks reached the English Channel and German bombs fell on London, the invasion of the United Kingdom seemed imminent.

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians.

Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa.

Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community?

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.

This 2004 book is an empirical study of public opinion and elite attitudes towards immigration in the EU.

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered "e;Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions.

Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, over 5.

The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees.

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill-specifically the distinction between the "e;skilled"e; and "e;unskilled"e;-is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human?

As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees.

From the worlds most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people.

Die Herausforderung des gewalttätigen Islamismus, die Zuspitzung der Europäischen Krise, das Wiederaufflammen des Ost-West-Konflikts und die bitteren Nachwehen des Kolonialismus an den alten Fronten zwischen Nord und Süd prägen unsere Gegenwart.

Global migration possesses a very diverse and dynamic nature.

Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticise Israel and support Palestinian rights.

Die Integration geflüchteter Menschen stellt hohe Anforderungen an Verwaltung, freie Träger und Zivilgesellschaft, bietet aber auch Chancen für die Kommunen.

This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria.

Between 1912 and 1925, Ireland convulsed with political and revolutionary upheaval in pursuit of self-government.

Despite legislative guarantees of equality, immigrant women in Canada often experience many forms of prejudice in their everyday lives.

In dieser Studie werden die theoretischen und konzeptionellen Debatten uber die lokale Integration von Fluchtlingen und die Rolle nichtstaatlicher Akteure bei der Integration zusammengebracht.

African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric.

Bekommen Geflüchtete es besonders zu spüren, dass Würde ein vergessener Wert in der Psychotherapie ist, und welche Gegenmittel gibt es dagegen?

Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities.

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

At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "e;refugee cycle"e; - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes.

Das Buch setzt die Reihe RIPAR fort, indem die bisher noch nicht behandelte MENA Region in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses ruckt.

Principally, this book comprises a conceptual analysis of the illegality of a third-country national's stay by examining the boundaries of the overarching concept of illegality at the EU level.

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.

»Zeit der Zäune« erzählt von Orten der Flucht, zu denen Katja Riemann allein und ohne ein Team an ihrer Seite reiste.

This book explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West.

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people s everyday lives.

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether there is any point after conception where it is possible to draw the line beyond which killing is impermissible.

There has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of families and children arriving on the southern border over the past several years.

The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west.

'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha WaliaThe Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava.

The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942.

An impassioned argument by a young Mexican American woman for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)Abuses in detention centers.