Refugees and political asylum

The story of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs uplifting the Za''atari refugee camp, and of the global refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon they represent.

Based on four years of field research in Palestinian camps in Jordan - including unique interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book reveals the extraordinary layers of discrimination suffered by Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan.

Wie geht die Gesellschaft mit der kulturellen und religiösen Vielfalt in der Gesellschaft um, die aufgrund der Migration von Arbeitskräften und geflüchteten Menschen immer größer wird?

Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries.

The thousands uprooted and displaced by the Holocaust had a profound cultural impact on the countries in which they sought refuge, with numerous Holocaust escapees attaining prominence as scientists, writers, filmmakers and artists.

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.

This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.

Sind Sie oder ist eine von Ihnen beratene Person von Abschiebung bedroht?

Jordan currently hosts the second largest percentage of registered refugees in the world: three million out of its eleven million inhabitants.

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.

In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong?

What is it like to travel to Europe over land and sea in order to secure a future for yourself and your family?

Since the arrival of the first Tibetans in exile in 1959, a vast and continuous wave of international especially Western support has permitted these refugees to survive and even to flourish in their temporary places of residence.

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

Mehr als 22 000 evangelische Bürgerinnen und Bürger des Kirchenstaats Salzburg verloren durch das Reichsemigrationspatent des Salzburger Fürsterzbischofs Firmian 1731 ihre Heimat.

Worlds of Women is a groundbreaking exploration of the "e;first wave"e; of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War.

This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria.

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

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

For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain.

This book explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West.

One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.

Grenze kann (nicht nur) heutzutage als ein komplexes, dynamisches und vieldimensionales Phänomen, das ständigen (Ver-)Änderungen unterliegt, betrachtet werden.

During the decade that preceded Syria's 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency.

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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide.

Sowohl im Erleben von Flucht und Vertreibung als auch mit Blick auf ihren Integrationsprozess nach 1945 unterschieden sich die jungen Vertriebenen von den Angehörigen der älteren Generationen maßgeblich.

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

The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East.

*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.

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

Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee.

WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE'Vivid and moving' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Excellent .

The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year.

What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically?

Demonstrates how civilian behaviour in conflict zones involves repertoires of survival strategies, not just migration.

How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequalityAs the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption that this will restore their prospects for a bright future.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeThe chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.

Wie verändern Migrationsprozesse die Soziale Arbeit?

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.

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women.

As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home.

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.

Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada.