Refugees and political asylum

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

Refugees lie at the heart of world politics.

Refugees lie at the heart of world politics.

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration.

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

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

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

A Prison Without Walls?

The continued vitality of the Greek city (polis) in the centuries after the Peloponnesian War has now been richly demonstrated by historians.

Since the complex emergencies of the 1990s, humanitarian agencies have placed increasing emphasis on the protection of civilians during armed conflict.

Making Minorities History examines the various attempts made by European states over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, under the umbrella of international law and in the name of international peace and reconciliation, to rid the Continent of its ethnographic misfits and problem populations.

The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor.

Economic interaction has enlarged the international trade in goods and services, but the safe and humane flow of persons across international borders remains a challenge in a State-based model of territorial jurisdictions.

Economic interaction has enlarged the international trade in goods and services, but the safe and humane flow of persons across international borders remains a challenge in a State-based model of territorial jurisdictions.

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

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

Refuge beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety.

Refuge beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety.

At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today.

At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today.

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries.

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries.

A surprisingly understudied topic in international relations is gender-based asylum.

In Ellis Island to Ebbets Field, Peter Levine vividly recounts the stories of Red Auerbach, Hank Greenberg, Moe Berg, Sid Luckman, Nat Holman, Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, Marty Glickman, and a host of others who became Jewish heroes and symbols of the difficult struggle for American success.

In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government.

In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government.

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation.

On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution.

On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution.

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.

How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migrationThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restriction on naturalization to free White persons of "e;good character.

Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life.

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

**Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025****A Guardian book to look out for in 2024**'An exceptional book: a meditation on family; an interrogation of movement and borders; a reflection on how someone can become separated from their own personal history; and an argument that it is never too late to reconnect with what was lost' SALLY HAYDEN'A compelling story from a gifted storyteller In a moment where refugees are often talked about but rarely heard from, her voice breaks through' GARY YOUNGEA staggering investigation into the costs and consequences of displacement, from a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience and its aftershocksIn 2015, Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report from the frontlines of the refugee crisis.

From July to November 2021, Little Amal, a 3.

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***'Read this book.

Die Kulturentwicklung des sogenannten Abendlands dreht sich um diese Achse des Verständnisses des Menschen, der immer klarer in seinem Wesen und in seiner Bedeutung im Rahmen der Wirklichkeit wurde und wird.