Utilizing international perspectives, this unprecedented collection of essays from leading authorities on refugee studies spotlights the realities and challenges of the global refugee population.
As European states tighten their borders, refugees are regularly forced to take costly and highly dangerous routes to seek protection, sometimes with fatal consequences.
Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences.
Seit Monaten dreht sich alles um das Thema Flucht und Flüchtlinge, kaum ein Thema hat das politische Geschehen deutschland- und europaweit je so stark beeinflusst.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
The massive dimensions of Syria's refugee crisisand the search for solutionsThe civil war in Syria has forced some 10 million peoplemore than half the country's populationfrom their homes and communities, creating one of the largest human displacements since the end of World War II.
Concepts of migration and displacement are all too often separated from ideas of international humanitarianism and occupations; and yet, between 1945 and 1951, victims of war became the joint responsibility of humanitarian workers and military officials in occupied Germany.
Concepts of migration and displacement are all too often separated from ideas of international humanitarianism and occupations; and yet, between 1945 and 1951, victims of war became the joint responsibility of humanitarian workers and military officials in occupied Germany.
How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrantsbut also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families' societal presence.
How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrantsbut also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families' societal presence.
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats to national security.
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats to national security.
Latin America provides a compelling case for the study of migration policies and laws, with several factors - including both internal and interregional migration and refugee flows, the region's progressive approach to the management of human mobility, and several forced displacement crises of the contemporary era - offering unique insights.
The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection.
The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection.
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.
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return.
