Refugees and political asylum

International law provides states with a common definition of a "e;refugee"e; as well as guidelines outlining how asylum claims should be decided.

Mexican migration to the United States and Canada is a highly contentious issue in the eyes of many North Americans, and every generation seems to construct the northward flow of labor as a brand new social problem.

Williams traces the South West Africa People''s Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

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 long-awaited second edition of this seminal text, reconceived as a critical analysis of the world''s leading comparative asylum jurisprudence.

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

Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops.

Over the past two decades, the Sanctuary City movement has resulted in hundreds of jurisdictions declaring themselves safe spaces for undocumented migrants and people without status.

Die Zuwanderung aus Kriegsgebieten und Krisenregionen und die langfristige Neubestimmung gesellschaftlicher Integration verändern die Räume sozialer Beziehungen nachhaltig.

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

Turkey is home to the largest Syrian refugee community in the world and the agricultural industry offers work opportunities for vulnerable Syrian refugee families.

Discover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics.

"e;A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars.

Peter Döbler wuchs mit der Idee des Sozialismus und Kommunismus auf, fest eingebunden in das gesellschaftliche Gebilde der DDR, bis er erkennen musste, dass dort kein Platz für seine Vorstellung von Freiheit vorgesehen war.

In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique.

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

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe.

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

As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical.

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

How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?

Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry.

Ein Riss geht durch das Land.

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

60 per cent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin,a statistic which has propelled Jordan into the role of both player and pawn in regional issues such as the birth of the state of Israel,the prolonged Israel-Palestine conflict, the ascent and decline of Arab nationalism and the subsequent rise of political Islam and radicalism.

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

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

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

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.

This hands-on guide provides accessible, insightful advice for practitioners who find themselves working with asylum seekers and refugees.

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

'A vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq' - miriam cookeFollowing the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many Iraqi academics were assassinated.

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.

This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority in the urban Midwest, Cambodian refugees.

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

"e;Taking Sidesis more than a book; it's a politic aimed at the heart of every radical struggling against a racist state.

This volume examines how Governmental agencies, non-profit organizations and educational institutions are mobilizing their resources to promote inclusion of refugees and internally displaced people.

Deutschland und der Flüchtlingsstrom – "Wir schaffen das", sagt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel.

The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date.

Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book No Friend but the Mountains.

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

Across the globe, migration has been met with intensifying modes of criminalization and securitization, and claims for political asylum are increasingly met with suspicion.

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchalspaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitantshave consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquelysecular and democratic spaces, and characterized by genderequality.

Almost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard.

This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in global history.

Geflüchtete Menschen sind eine besonders vulnerable Gruppe, sie leiden häufig an schwerwiegenden psychischen Störungen.