Los relatos obtenidos en diferentes investigaciones cualitativas, que fueron realizadas principalmente en Ecuador y España, dan cuenta de la violencia del sistema sociocultural en los ámbitos que van de lo íntimo a lo éxtimo: violencia económica y sexual; violencia en el sistema educativo, en el sistema de salud y hacia la imagen corporal; en el transporte público y en la participación en contextos político-institucionales.
"En los meses y años siguientes al golpe de Estado de 1973, medio centenar de niñas y niños chilenos, hijos de militantes comunistas o socialistas asesinados, encarcelados o exiliados, llegaron a vivir a la Unión Soviética.
'Betts and Collier offer innovative insights into how to more effectively meet this challenge, with an important new focus on international solidarity and refugee empowerment' Kofi Annan'Refugees and policy makers need practical answers to what is now a global crisis.
An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices.
The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital.
From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about the awakening of human courage and conscience.
*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017*In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today.
***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****** Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards***Featured on This Morning, Steph's Packed Lunch, Radio 4: Today and Channel 4 News_______________Everyone knows the word 'war'.
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppressionOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 'A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure' Michael Palin 'Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior' Alice Walker _____________________________________Palestine, 1948.
Kinder in den Schlangen vor den Grenzen, in den Zügen, in den Erstaufnahmelagern – das ferne Geschehen der Flucht ist spätestens seit dem Sommer 2015 in Deutschland angekommen.
"Die aktuelle Asylpolitik birgt ein Zeichen der Hoffnung, nicht nur, weil sie den Kriegsflüchtlingen unter die Arme greift, sondern auch, weil sie der politischen Lähmung in Europa entgegenarbeitet.
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana.
Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial TimesOne day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona.
La llamada "ética aplicada" comienza su andar en la segunda mitad del siglo xx en Estados Unidos, luego se extiende a Europa, Asia y, por supuesto, también a Latinoamérica.
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London's East End.
WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Spellbinding' i'Breathtaking' Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' Daisy Johnson'Excellent' Margaret Atwood on TwitterAn ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night; a country music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy; and a young girl's love for her father transcends language.
While the Naval base in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees.
WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Spellbinding' i'Breathtaking' Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' Daisy Johnson'Excellent' Margaret Atwood on TwitterAn ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night; a country music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy; and a young girl's love for her father transcends language.
Eine Geschichte aus der deutschen GegenwartWittenhagen in Brandenburg: Hedwig Leydenfrost lebt zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Leonhardt, einem pensionierten Bibliothekar, im Dorf ihrer Kindheit.
Millionen Muslime sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten als Gastarbeiter überwiegend aus der Türkei, als Flüchtlinge aus Syrien und anderen Staaten des Nahen Ostens nach Deutschland gekommen.
Deutsche heißen Günter und Gaby, aber eben auch Fatma und FatihDie Art, wie wir über Migration, Geflüchtete und Integration reden, zeigt: Wir haben ein Wahrnehmungsproblem.
In der öffentlichen Debatte ist derzeit von kaum etwas anderem die Rede als davon, wie wir mit dem Fremden und mit den Fremden umgehen wollen – und irgendwie werden wir uns selbst dabei fremd.
