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.

Media interest in the fates of people at sea has heightened across the last decade.

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

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

This book is a compilation of CRS (Congressional Research Services) reports on Foreign Policy and Regional Affairs.

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats.

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

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.

Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions.

Explains why some refugee-hosting communities in Africa launch large-scale attacks on civilian refugees while others refrain, even when encouraged to do so by state officials.

Refugees lie at the heart of world politics.

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

The Best of Hard Times explores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

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

Soon to be a major film, produced by Steven Spielberg and J.

The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life.

*Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border?

Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers.

With a foreword by Ilhan Omar, this breathtaking work of literary nonfiction reveals the power of solidarity for women facing the inadequacies of the US immigration system.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province.

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.

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

Following the outbreak of the Syrian uprising in 2011, many Syrians fled to Egypt.

Systematic and critical examination of Chinese refugee law and policy including information acquired from interviews and field visits.

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

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.

Defends the current laws limiting asylum to those fearing persecution.

An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.

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

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.

This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors’ earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination.

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

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

With more than 18 million refugees worldwide, the refugee problem has fostered an intense debate regarding what political changes are necessary in the international system to provide effective solutions in the 1990s and beyond.

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.

This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.

A practical guide for professionals and services supporting people seeking asylum, which explores their distinctive mental health needs.

Sanctuary is an ancient right.

Revealing the role of discrimination in disasters challenges received wisdom about who is a refugee.

In this unique volume, leading analysts from the Red Cross, Middle East Institute and Refugee Affairs - many of whom have been actively involved in past negotiations on this issue - provide an overview of the key dimensions of the Palestinian refugee problem.

Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a ''just return'' process for repatriating refugees.