Refugees and political asylum

The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hopeDeng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever.

This book shows how diasporas are mobilised to challenge authoritarian governments - by whom, for what purposes, and with what consequences.

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.

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

The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always moved in search of safety, and they always will.

A systematic analysis of extraterritorial obligations and state responsibility for private actors under international refugee law.

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

While Palestinians continue to face the threat of expulsion from their homes, identifying legal mechanisms that can be used to assert Palestinian's property rights is needed more than ever.

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

This book studies the misaligned priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.

Across countries and time, asylum-seekers and refugees have been represented in a variety of ways.

The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor.

Hosting over 30,000 inhabitants and governed by competing militias, 'Ayn al-Hilwe in the south of Lebanon is one of the most contested refugee camps in the Middle East.

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

The treatment of migrants is one of the most challenging issues that human rights, as a political philosophy, faces today.

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

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

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.

After the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian War, a number Syrian-Armenians who had lived in the territory for generations, fled to the Republic of Armenia.

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

This book documents how global advocacy on behalf of refugees has failed, and proposes a new strategy using social entrepreneurship.

Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact.

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.

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

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

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.

Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa.

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

This book presents the only contemporary legal analysis of refugee detention at Guantánamo Bay under the US Migrant Interdiction Program.

An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.

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

Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities.

This book, first published in 2007, assesses the ability of the Refugee Convention to encompass socio-economic based claims.

A novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention.

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.

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

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

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.

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Told through heart-wrenching testimonies, photographs, and artwork of refugees fleeing their homelands, Desperately Seeking Asylum describes firsthand accounts of the harrowing and dangerous journey immigrants are willing to endure knowing that they might not even make it onto US soil.

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe.

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

This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees.