Refugees and political asylum

This timely study explores how societies have responded to mass inflows of refugees between 1945 and 2000.

This book explores the realities behind the Palestinian exodus of 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war.

In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.

Over the years Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects.

International refugee law anticipates state conduct in relation to nationality, statelessness, and protection.

To many, a border is a geographical fact.

Thisvolume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing variousinterventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizationsand local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration withhost communities.

The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West.

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

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M.

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

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

Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events.

Dayton Literary Peace Prize FinalistClara Johnson Award FinalistAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed.

A timely history of the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees to Britain across the twentieth century.

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.

Migration is one of the fundamental driving forces of change in the modern world.

Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant.

Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbronn to England.

Utilizing international perspectives, this unprecedented collection of essays from leading authorities on refugee studies spotlights the realities and challenges of the global refugee population.

Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing.

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

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.

Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from Sudan and Eritrea have entered Israel.

By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe.

The book offers a compelling combination of analyis and detailed description of aesthetic projects with young refugee arrivals in Australia.

Drawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and service providers, this book provides a unique view of the direct and indirect consequences of war in Europe.

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

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

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp.

Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we've now missed our chance.

A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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

'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief.

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

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

An examination of the ethical and political issues raised by the responses of Western states to refugees.

This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe.

How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotionWhy do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding?

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.

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.

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps.

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.