Refugees and political asylum

With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance.

A suburban psychic's ominous warning.

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.

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 major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras-and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world.

At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent.

Despite growing attention and focus, the issues with refugee access, participation, and success in higher education detailed in the first edition stubbornly remain, magnified by intensifying international conflict, as well as the impacts of COVID on universities.

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006.

In Iran entsteht seit Jahren ein protestantisches Untergrundchristentum, das die islamisch-politische Konfiguration des Staates infrage stellt.

Genderismus ist eine gefährliche Ideologie mit totalitären Zügen.

On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution.

In light of the increase in cross-border mobility and the recent political climate surrounding immigration-related issues, understanding the politics and policies of immigrants' access to welfare programs is more relevant than ever.

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.

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.

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

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M.

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?

Migration sowie der Umgang mit Vielfalt und Ausgrenzung sind nicht nur in migrationsspezifischen Sozialen Diensten Thema, sondern in allen Bereichen Sozialer Arbeit.

As an unprecedented number of people are displaced around the world, scholars continue to strive to make sense of what appear to be a series of constantly unfolding 'crises.

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.

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

Alongside a panel of experts, the UNHCR examines the interpretation of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.

William Still (1821-1902) was an African-American abolitionist, businessman, writer, historian, civil rights activist.

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.

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

Migration ist Gegenstand Sozialer Arbeit, wenn Migrant(inn)en marginalisiert sind und die Gesellschaft auf Anforderungen neuer Vielfalt reagieren muss.

Xenophobia is a salient issue in South Africa.

'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha WaliaThe Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava.

Wie verstehen Mitarbeiter*innen von Aufenthaltsberatungsstellen, Ausländerbehörden und der Bundespolizei ihre Arbeit?

In light of the increase in cross-border mobility and the recent political climate surrounding immigration-related issues, understanding the politics and policies of immigrants' access to welfare programs is more relevant than ever.

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

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

This is the book about immigration detention that all Australians need to read.

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.

The book focuses on Social Work with refugees in African, Middle East and European countries.

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.

A practical and accessible manual providing a culturally sensitive approach to the treatment of PTSD and trauma more generally.

Showler uses satire to expose the prejudices, myopia, ignorance, provincialism, and lack of sensitivity that mark the decisions of officials.

Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation.

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

«Um unsere Gegenwart nicht zu verlieren, genügt es nicht, nur der Vergangenheit zu gedenken.

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

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.