Refugees and political asylum

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

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel''s claim to Jewish identity.

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

Winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeBritain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well embedded, and where the standard of living conditions for those seeking asylum is relatively high.

Over the past two decades, the Sanctuary City movement has resulted in hundreds of jurisdictions declaring themselves safe spaces for undocumented migrants and people without status.

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.

One woman's heart-breaking, life-affirming memoir of loss, survival, bearing witness and a legacy of love'Landbridge has forever altered what I know, how I love, and what I hope' Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing'A masterpiece to console and guide generations to come' Alice Pung, author of Unpolished GemBorn in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

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

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

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.

Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies.

Since the 1980's Canadians have experienced turmoil on an unprecedented scale and on a variety of fronts.

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.

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

Der Band geht dem Sorgen für sich und andere nach und wirft damit einen Blick auf Care-Arbeit in ihren unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen.

Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960s, are now largely a historical memory.

Die geflüchteten Frauen, die zu Cristina Roters in ihre Malbegleitung kamen, hatten lange Wanderungen zu Fuß, schwere Misshandlungen und den Verlust naher Verwandter hinter sich und trugen die daraus resultierenden tiefen Verletzungen in sich.

What does it mean to be a man in our biomedical day and age?

These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.

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.

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book PrizeImmigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network of more than two hundred detention facilities.

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities.

Hope and Hospitality for Migrating People Never have so many people left their homes and migrated to other parts of the world as weve seen in recent years.

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

How does the need to obtain and deliver health services engender particular (im)mobility forms?

Against the Current offers a personal account of the plight of European refugees and the importance of immigrants to Canada's post-war growth.

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.

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

Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it.

The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed conflict and occupation.

At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "e;refugee cycle"e; - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes.

Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria.

This book proposes a new solution to the problem of the migration crisis engulfing the world by creating safe harbours, or Free Global Cities.

No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees.

Das Drama der geflüchteten Kinder ist nie vorbei.

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

The Claim gently invites you into the most British of interviews, then morphs into a dizzying onslaught of bureaucracy and prejudice.

The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hope - for readers aged 12+.

Mitarbeitende und Verantwortliche in Institutionen der Erwachsenenbildung finden in diesem Band theoretisch fundiertes Erfahrungswissen sowie didaktische und methodische Empfehlungen für die Konzeption, Planung und Durchführung von Bildungs- und Begleitangeboten für Menschen mit Fluchthintergrund.

From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political livesLike much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history.

Doing Mission Responsibly among Refugees and MigrantsMigration has been a major source of change and a central feature in human development, but the sheer magnitude and relentlessness of migrant movements in recent decades defy easy analysis.

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.

Welche Bedingungen und Faktoren beeinflussen die Verhandlungsprozesse von Resilienz und Vulnerabilität bei geflüchteten Frauen?

There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions.

Leading scholars and practitioners address the challenges in the adjudication of refugee claims from those fleeing violence and conflict.

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.