Refugees and political asylum Books
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The University of Chicago Press Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan
Book SynopsisExamines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. This book examines the way women's bodies are politicized by their displacement, analyzing issues such as religious conversion, marriage, and female circumcision.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Browning of the New South
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of African American-Latino community relationships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in
Book SynopsisPapers from a workshop organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research and held at Cambridge, MA, on 27 April 2018.
£106.40
The University of Chicago Press Displacing Territory Syrian and Palestinian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thoroughly researched, compellingly written, and moving analysis of the political geographies of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan. Taking the twin lenses of territory and belonging, it critically interrogates dominant theorizations of these ideas, providing political, historical, and ethnographic depth to the analysis. It is an important and politically urgent book." -- Stuart Elden, University of Warwick"A masterful account of the impact of displacements in Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. Culcasi theorizes territory as shaped through a sense of geographic belonging at multiple scales outside and beyond the nation-state nexus. A must-read." -- Reece Jones, author of "White Borders and Nobody Is Protected""Displacing Territory is a powerful and deeply sympathetic analysis of displaced Syrians’ and Palestinians’ attachment to their homeland, that territorial imaginary shaped and reshaped by history over the centuries. They all share the sense of physical displacement while carrying their imagined territory, that homeland, in their conscious understanding of their identity and belonging.” -- Dawn Chatty, University of OxfordTable of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Displacing the Study of Territory Chapter 2: The International Refugee Regime, Durable Solutions, and Territory Chapter 3: Territory and Displacement in Jordan Chapter 4: Pre-imperial and Anti-imperial Territories Chapter 5: Hybrid Territories Chapter 6: The State-Territory Nexus Chapter 7: Refugee Camp Territories Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Forever 17
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Forever 17 is outstanding, original, impeccably researched, and eminently engaging. With deep ethnographic engagement, humanity, and lucid prose, Bialas brings razor-sharp intellect to demystify the seemingly neutral category of age, debunking the taken-for-granted naturalness of social categories and revealing their complexity, ambiguity, and malleability. This brilliant contribution has enormous theoretical significance and will have a lasting impact on policy debates about the asylum system and beyond. I highly recommend it, especially to anyone open to having their assumptions challenged." -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles"This ethnography of young asylum seekers in Germany shows how a process that might seem obvious—defining a person’s age and its meaning—is a wobbly social construction erected by architects with competing visions. Bialas is a perceptive observer of the conflicts, mutual adjustments, and unintended consequences." -- David Scott FitzGerald, coauthor of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach“This brilliant and incisive ethnographic study unpacks how to determine eligibility fairly under conditions of great demand. Bialas profoundly understands a crunch point at which global demand for opportunity confronts local desires to limit access, and explores all the ambiguities, ambivalences, and indeterminacy that follow. This is a must-read in terms of both the ‘bureaucratic incorporation’ of immigrants and the liminal lives so generated.” -- John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Forever 17
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Forever 17 is outstanding, original, impeccably researched, and eminently engaging. With deep ethnographic engagement, humanity, and lucid prose, Bialas brings razor-sharp intellect to demystify the seemingly neutral category of age, debunking the taken-for-granted naturalness of social categories and revealing their complexity, ambiguity, and malleability. This brilliant contribution has enormous theoretical significance and will have a lasting impact on policy debates about the asylum system and beyond. I highly recommend it, especially to anyone open to having their assumptions challenged." -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles"This ethnography of young asylum seekers in Germany shows how a process that might seem obvious—defining a person’s age and its meaning—is a wobbly social construction erected by architects with competing visions. Bialas is a perceptive observer of the conflicts, mutual adjustments, and unintended consequences." -- David Scott FitzGerald, coauthor of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach“This brilliant and incisive ethnographic study unpacks how to determine eligibility fairly under conditions of great demand. Bialas profoundly understands a crunch point at which global demand for opportunity confronts local desires to limit access, and explores all the ambiguities, ambivalences, and indeterminacy that follow. This is a must-read in terms of both the ‘bureaucratic incorporation’ of immigrants and the liminal lives so generated.” -- John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center
£24.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Strangers to Neighbours
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£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Strangers to Neighbours
Book SynopsisAs a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers to Neighbours explains the origins and development of refugee sponsorship, paying particular attention to the unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas it produces for refugee policy. The contributors to this collection draw upon law, social science, and philosophy to bring a more robust and objective perspective on Canada''s historical experience with sponsorship into wider conversations about the refugee crisis and resettlement. Together, they present recent cases that exemplify how the model has been applied and how it functions, while also analyzing the challenges that emerge in host-sponsor relatioTrade Review"There is both a hunger and a need for a book of this depth and breadth on the topic of private sponsorship given the current global interest in the role of community sponsors in resettlement. The chapters in Strangers to Neighbours provide a rich and varied overview of private sponsorship from numerous perspectives, making a significant contribution to our surprisingly shallow understanding on the subject." Michaela Hynie, York University"The contributors to this edited collection—scholars and practitioners with expertise in law, social science, and philosophy—provide a rich and varied overview and assessment of the success and sustainability of PRS. In 15 relatively short chapters, these authors tackle a number of topics: the legislative framework and historical trajectory of PRS; the relationship between private sponsors and government; the integration and relationship-building aspects of refugee sponsorship; and the risks and unintended consequences of resettlement, including ethical dilemmas that PRS creates with respect to broader/global refugee protection goals." Choice
£27.08
McGill-Queen's University Press The Precarious Lives of Syrians
Book SynopsisTurkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions.The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants'' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to Trade Review"Turkey hosts the largest refugee community in the world today and the Syrian refugee issue has far-reaching implications across that country. This book, with its succinct overview of Syrian refugees in that country and its vivid description of the socio-economic conditions of refugees in cities and host communities, is a welcome and long overdue effort." Cenk Saraçoglu, Ankara University and author of Kurds of Modern Turkey: Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion in Turkish Society“[The Precarious Lives of Syrians] is distinguished in its presentation of an understanding of precarity that is different from the one in reference to industrial or post-Fordist capitalism in the West. Whereas the definition of precarity is usually limited to employment conditions, this book aims to provide a larger definition and show aspects of precarity namely inherent to migration. It does so by taking a perspective from the case of Turkey as a country that is currently developing its migration system with the arrival of a very important number of refugees. It thus constitutes a rich resource for students and scholars who are interested in delving into the topic of forced migration within the fields of social sciences, especially in the case of Turkey.” International Migration“A vital read – not only for those with an interest in the plight of Syrian refugees, but also for all those concerned about the ‘death of asylum’ as a concept and practice, and the ‘discursive disappearance of the refugee’ or erosion of the idea that people who seek asylum may be refugees. While the authors certainly document a bleak situation for many Syrians in Turkey, they also provide glimpses of strength of Syrians who continue to build their lives in the face of challenges, in solidarity with each other as well as with Turkish citizens.” Journal of Refugee Studies
£26.99
John Wiley & Sons Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America
Book SynopsisVoluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America provides a unique comparative analysis of the migration legislations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico, thoroughly interrogating the national and regional mechanisms that facilitate both voluntary and forced migration, and affect migrant and refugee rights.
£999.99
Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
Book SynopsisBalgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and refugees.Trade ReviewThe United States has always been considered a land of immigrants, but since the massive increase in immigration in the late 1980s, when the number of incoming refugees doubled, this cliche has become very real. This massive influx of people requires a variety of social work services to help immigrants adapt to their new land, and this book is designed for those who must fill this need. Journal of Social Work Education Rich in demographic information regarding Asian immigration to the United States and the issues many face once havin arrived. -- Marshall Jung, Riverside, California Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Pallassana R. Balgopal Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees: An Overview, by Pallassana R. Balgopal Social Work Practice with Asian Americans, by Jayashree Nimmagadda and Pallassana R. Balgopal Social Work Practice with Latino American Immigrants, by John F. Longres and Davis G. Patterson Social Work Practice with African-Descent Immigrants, by E. Aracelis Francis Social Work Practice with European Immigrants, by Howard Jacob Karger and Joanne Levine Refugees in the 1990s: A U.S. Perspective, by Nazneen S. Mayadas and Uma A. Segal Conclusion, by Pallassana R. Balgopal Contributors Index
£95.00
Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
Book SynopsisBalgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and refugees.Trade ReviewThe United States has always been considered a land of immigrants, but since the massive increase in immigration in the late 1980s, when the number of incoming refugees doubled, this cliche has become very real. This massive influx of people requires a variety of social work services to help immigrants adapt to their new land, and this book is designed for those who must fill this need. Journal of Social Work Education Rich in demographic information regarding Asian immigration to the United States and the issues many face once havin arrived. -- Marshall Jung, Riverside, California Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Pallassana R. Balgopal Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees: An Overview, by Pallassana R. Balgopal Social Work Practice with Asian Americans, by Jayashree Nimmagadda and Pallassana R. Balgopal Social Work Practice with Latino American Immigrants, by John F. Longres and Davis G. Patterson Social Work Practice with African-Descent Immigrants, by E. Aracelis Francis Social Work Practice with European Immigrants, by Howard Jacob Karger and Joanne Levine Refugees in the 1990s: A U.S. Perspective, by Nazneen S. Mayadas and Uma A. Segal Conclusion, by Pallassana R. Balgopal Contributors Index
£29.75
Columbia University Press Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and
Book SynopsisRather than focusing on specific groups, this book takes a pancultural perspective that focuses on the common experiences of refugees and immigrants. The author focuses on empirically-based practice approaches; assessment and intervention techniques that have been scientifically validated. Based on this approach the book presents the best practice for each problem area.Trade ReviewA very comprehensive text... written from the heart... It represents a milestone in social work literature. Social Work Review This book is a solid contribution to the social work literature...Best Practices is a complete reference on the subject... -- Willie Tolliver Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Services I recommend this book...a succint and accessible style -- Douglas Durst Journal of International Migration and Integration Read this book, assign it to your students, buy copies for practitioners in your community-based-organizations... It is an excellent guidebook. Journal of Community PracticeTable of ContentsPart 1: Context for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants 1. Introduction 2. Immigration and Refugee Policies 3. Service Delivery Systems Part 2: Best Practices 4. Culturally Competent Social Work Practice 5. Health 6. Mental Health 7. Family Dynamics 8. Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being 9. Interethnic Relations 10. Summary and Conclusions
£35.70
Columbia University Press Protection Amid Chaos
Book SynopsisProtection Amid Chaos follows Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging spaces. Nadya Hajj shows how they adapt flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland to the restrictions of refugee life.Trade ReviewNadya Hajj asks an important question - namely, why and how do property rights get institutionalized in "transitional" contexts? With so many places in the world characterized by unpredictability and uncertainty, this question resonates far beyond the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and Jordan. Based on a treasure trove of data from in-depth interviews and original documents, among other sources, Hajj traces the evolution of property rights in the camps over time, showing how they evolved from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims as Palestinians sought greater predictability in their lives. These strategies, however, had ambiguous effects: On the one hand, the formalization of property rights afforded refugees a measure of protection. On the other, they exposed them to greater control by external actors such as the Jordanian state, the Lebanese military, and the Palestinian Fatah. Hajj's impressive work sheds light on a critical and enduring question of great consequence for macro-level development outcomes and for micro-level concerns of people living in uncertain conditions. -- Melani Cammett, Harvard University Hajj has written an outstanding book on the politics of Palestinian property rights in the refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. With careful precision, Hajj documents the circumstances that resulted in the degree of Palestinian property rights formalization across the various camps. The book masterfully documents the debates and strategic considerations confronting dislocated and dispossessed Palestinians as they began to build local communities in their new settings. -- Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton University With unprecedented numbers of displaced people across the Middle East, this book provides a timely and powerful analysis of how refugee communities seek to establish and enforce property rights in conflict and transitional settings. Drawing on her extensive research in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon, the author combines rich empirical documentation with original theoretical insights. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how refugee communities adapt to insecure environments. -- Jeannie Sowers, The University of New HampshireTable of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Translations Note on Arabic Transliteration Introduction 1. A Theory of Property Right Formation in Palestinian Refugee Camps 2. Crafting Informal Property Rights in Fawdah 3. Formal Property Rights in Refugee Camps in Jordan 4. Formal Property Rights in Refugee Camps in Lebanon 5. Renegotiating Property Rights in Nahr al-Bared Camp Conclusion Appendix A: Titles from NBC and Beddawi in Arabic with English Translations Appendix B: Research Methods Notes References Index
£38.25
Columbia University Press Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest research to provide a practical, up-to-date resource.Trade ReviewBest Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants is a valuable primer for human service professionals. The authors thoughtfully consider the best ways to intervene while accounting for the clients’ cultural factors and life histories. Moreover, the authors attend to meso- and macro-level issues, which are essential for improving programs and policies. I can’t think of a better time for this much-needed second edition. -- Edward J. Alessi, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyBringing together new research findings from a wide range of sources, this book provides the tools needed for effective and compassionate social work with refugees and immigrants—in the areas of health care, mental health, family services, economic self-sufficiency, advocacy, and policy—in support of their full integration into their new communities. -- Yolanda C. Padilla, University of Texas at AustinSubstantive, well-organized, reader-friendly, and comprehensive, a timely pancultural overview of policy issues that serve as the context for social work practice with immigrants. -- Jessica Rosenberg, Long Island University BrooklynBest Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants presents the context and complexity of migration along with guidelines for practical, systematic, and socially just intervention approaches. This essential and comprehensive resource for social workers provides information, identifies issues in the journey from entry to integration, and recommends best practices for service provision. -- Uma A. Segal, University of Missouri-St. LouisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Context for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants 1. Introduction2. International Migration Policies3. United States Immigration and Refugee Policies4. Human Services Delivery SystemsPart II. Problem Areas and Best Practices 5. Culturally Competent Social Work Practice6. Health Issues7. Mental Health8. Family Dynamics9. Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being10. Intergroup Relations11. Additional Populations of Concern12. Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndex
£107.35
Columbia University Press Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest research to provide a practical, up-to-date resource.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Context for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants 1. Introduction2. International Migration Policies3. United States Immigration and Refugee Policies4. Human Services Delivery SystemsPart II. Problem Areas and Best Practices 5. Culturally Competent Social Work Practice6. Health Issues7. Mental Health8. Family Dynamics9. Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being10. Intergroup Relations11. Additional Populations of Concern12. Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndex
£32.30
Columbia University Press Refuge and Resistance
Book SynopsisThis book is a groundbreaking international history of Palestinian refugee politics. Anne Irfan demonstrates that refugee groups are important actors in global politics, not simply aid recipients, and recasts modern Palestinian history through the lens of refugee camps and communities.Trade ReviewThis book constitutes an original and thoroughly researched contribution to the study of both the interaction of international bodies, notably UNRWA, with the Palestine question, and of the agency of Palestinians, whether camp dwellers or the PLO, in relation to these bodies. It is one of the most fine-grained studies extant of UNRWA’s work and of its role as a quasi-state. -- Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017With exemplary clarity and care, Irfan tells the story of how the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees became a significant locus for Palestinian national politics—for articulating what it means to be a Palestinian refugee and what it means to be a Palestinian. This is an excellent and original book. -- Benjamin Thomas White, author of The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate SyriaAnne Irfan’s study of UNRWA from its inception to the 1970s is both very timely and an important contribution to fields such as refugee studies, Palestinian history, and the history ofinternational institutions...I strongly recommend the book. -- Jørgen Jensehaugen * Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) *Regrettably timely...a riveting historical overview of the lives and experiences of Palestinians in the UNRWA camps. -- Marc Lynch * Abu Aardvark *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on Transliteration and TranslationAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Remaking Refugeehood1. Becoming Refugees2. From Refuge to Revolution3. An International RegimePart II. Resisting the Regime4. Palestinian Perceptions5. Agents of the Nation6. Palestine at the UNEpilogue: Resistance After RevolutionAppendix A: Palestinian Refugee FiguresAppendix B: Palestinian Refugee CampsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Indiana University Press African Refugees
Book SynopsisTrade Review"African Refugees seeks to evaluate and negotiate the redefinitions, reevaluations, and reconstructions of the phenomenon of refugees, foregrounding the people in an African experience. It goes deeper than most existing books as it emphasizes "a new dawn" or change in the topicality and subject matter in refugee writings via a historical perspective that is overshadowed by expected topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions; as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, urban refugees, and refugee women. It takes on rare but emergent topics, such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. It tells the African refugee story from the long historical past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, and it maintains a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions."—Fenda A. Akiwumi, University of South Florida"This voluminous work takes an all-inclusive decolonial approach to the study of forced migration, causes and consequences, refugees in Africa and the diaspora, humanitarian studies, and rethinking futuristic approaches to solving the crises."—Ogenga Otunnu, DePaul UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of AcronymsAcknowledgementsMapsPrefacePart I: Context1. Refugeehood in Africa2. Refugee Studies3. African Refugee Studies4. Human Rights Instruments on African Refugees5. States and Policy FrameworksPart II: Making Refugees6. Colonialism and the Production of Refugees in Africa7. Postcolonial Politics, Wars and African Refugee Problems8. Internal Displacement in AfricaPart III: Displaced Lives9. Refugee Camps and Settlements in Africa10. Urban Refugees11. African Refugee Women: Gendering Policy and Protection12. African Refugee Youth13. Hope in Displacement: Refugees and Cultures of CreativityPart IV: Protection and Solutions14. Refugee Protection and Management15. Durable Solutions and the Crisis of Development16. Home, Return and Post-RelocationPart V: Conclusion17. Citizenship, Rights and Development18. The Future: Ending Africa's Refugee CrisisBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Indiana University Press The Politics of CrisisMaking
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A novel account of the politics of humanitarianism in Lebanon, especially in its choice to examine the lived experiences of both displaced citizens as well as migrants and refugees."—Kelsey Norman, author of Reluctant Reception"This sensitive account of humanitarian responses to aging emergencies and repeated crises in Lebanon offers vital insights into the global and local politics of aid. Estella Carpi's careful ethnographic attention to the dynamics of aid provision reveals the complex ways people live with and against each other in humanitarian settings."—Ilana Feldman, George Washington University"Carpi's book reminds us that displacement is not merely a humanitarian issue—as the crisis rubric wants us to think—but it entails class, race, and labor politics, all aspects that the humanitarian system does not aim to address yet acts on"—Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut"Estella Carpi provides a much needed and timely ethnography of humanitarianism in Lebanon. Her book is an excellent resource for scholars and practitioners who wish to understand how humanitarian crises are produced, enacted, managed and perpetuated in conflict-ridden environments through everyday discourses and practices"—Tamirace Fakhoury, Aalborg University and Sciences PoTable of ContentsFunding AcknowledgmentNote to ReaderIntroduction1. The Politics of Displacement in Lebanon2. Lebanon's Assistance Landscape3. Politicizing Aid and Moralizing Politics: Old Formulas, New Scenarios4. Ethnocracies of Care and Order5. Humanitarian Distances and the "Southist" Need to Be There6. The Trojan Horses of HumanitarianismAppendix: Key Dates in Lebanon's Political HistoryBibliographyIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press Composing Aid Music Refugees and Humanitarian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Moving beyond applied ethnomusicology into what the author describes as 'critical activist ethnomusicology' the study describes and critiques the diverse ways that different players in the refugee camps engage music and related arts to display layers of power dynamics."—Jean Kidula, author of Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
£52.70
Indiana University Press Composing Aid Music Refugees and Humanitarian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Moving beyond applied ethnomusicology into what the author describes as 'critical activist ethnomusicology' the study describes and critiques the diverse ways that different players in the refugee camps engage music and related arts to display layers of power dynamics."—Jean Kidula, author of Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
£21.59
Indiana University Press Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hosting States and Unsettled Guests unpacks the complex temporalities of migration. Temporal discombobulation begins under repressive rule in Eritrea. In Ethiopia, refugees' briefly-regained agency is lost in the face of sluggish humanitarian bureaucracy, and troubled relations with the unstable host country. In deftly documenting refugee agency, precarious journeys, and the systemic odds migrants encounter, Riggan and Poole make tremendous contributions to refugee studies and studies of the contemporary Horn of Africa."—Awet T. Weldemichael, Queen's University-Canada, author of Author of Piracy in Somalia."In this exemplary ethnography, replete with vivid details and theoretical nuance, Riggan and Poole analyze how Eritrean refugees weather Ethiopia's shifting paradigms of refugee management and pursue pragmatic visions of their possible futures in a time of political and economic instability. This book is a deft and absorbing piece of anthropological and international scholarship."—Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor of Humanizing Education for Refugee and Immigrant Youth"The book provides detailed, nuanced, and critical perspectives on some of the most important challenges of refugee life and refugee policy today: what it means to live as a refugee, how to work with host countries in the global south to ensure refugee's rights and needs are met, how to design education and economic opportunities for refugees, and how to ensure refugees' hopes and dreams for the future are not cruelly disregarded or undermined."—Lauren Carruth, author of Love and Liberation"In a detailed ethnography that profoundly reconceptualizes time and temporality, Riggan and Poole show us the political reality and predicament of life and struggle in refugee camps in northern Ethiopia. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of forced migration studies."—-Shahram Khosravi, author of Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran"Through the moving stories that they collected between 2016 and 2019, Riggan and Poole's engaging ethnography traces the fate of Eritrean refugees in a very unstable Ethiopia. The authors brilliantly examine how temporality (and not just spatiality) plays key roles in understanding Eritrean refugees' everyday lives in refugee camps and urban settings in the years that led up to a devastating war. The authors unveil how Eritrean refugees inescapably experience temporal suffering and teleological violence within these structural barriers, while their present becomes ungraspable and thus unmovable."—Sabina M. Perrino, Binghamton University, SUNY
£56.10
University of Notre Dame Press Defiance in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The stories found within Defiance in Exile are an altogether human story of our species’ ability to enact unimaginable harm and suffering, while simultaneously illuminating the human capacity for hope and empathy. Athamneh and Masud are masterful storytellers, and they narrate the lives of the individuals they encounter with an emotional richness that brings the reader into the experiences without any hint of voyeurism.” —Hillary J. Haldane, co-editor of Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence“Defiance in Exile provides compelling first-person testimony of Syrian women’s experiences in the al-Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The accounts are vivid and well-presented, and we need to hear such voices to counteract the often hostile rhetoric about Syrian refugees that one hears in North Atlantic countries.” —Kim Shively, author of Islam in Modern Turkey"If there is a 'must read' book inspired by what has happened to Syria and Syrians over the past decade, this is it. In telling the gripping stories of Syrian refugee women dealing with dispossession while leading their families and affirming themselves, Defiance in Exile speaks with penetrating insight and jarring directness to each one of us. No one will come away from reading this book unmoved or unchanged." —Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, diplomat-in-residence at Bard College and former US special envoy to Syria"This hortatory collection of Syrian women refugees’ stories, this j'accuse against the evil Asad regime and a willfully oblivious world, is a call to awareness and action. Can you read these stories of loss, madness, despair, claustrophobia, and resilience without screaming that something must be done?" —Miriam Cooke, author of Dancing in Damascus"Defiance in Exile is a powerful testimony of hope despite war, unimaginable heartbreak, and economic hardship. It is a book that delivers on its promise to truly reveal what it is like to be in a refugee camp. And it closes with a profoundly moving message of the need to care for and be in solidarity with the oppressed." —Dawn Chatty, author of Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State"If you want to be aware of the desperate life of Syrian refugees living in camps outside their lost home country, this book is a must. Defiance in Exile reflects an urgent call to do something about the Syrian refugee crisis." —Nikolaos van Dam, former ambassador of the Netherlands and special envoy for Syria and author of Destroying a Nation"This slim volume by Athamneh and Masud movingly portrays the tragic condition of the millions of Syrians uprooted from their country because of the ongoing civil war that began in 2011. In particular, the authors focus on the impact on women living in the Zaatari refugee camp, located in the Jordanian desert." —ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Mission Is Born 1. A Chance To listen 2. How It All Started 3. Reaching The Camp 4. Memories And Tribulations 5. Saving The Children 6. Rising Amid The Pain Conclusion
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press Defiance in Exile Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The stories found within Defiance in Exile are an altogether human story of our species’ ability to enact unimaginable harm and suffering, while simultaneously illuminating the human capacity for hope and empathy. Athamneh and Masud are masterful storytellers, and they narrate the lives of the individuals they encounter with an emotional richness that brings the reader into the experiences without any hint of voyeurism.” —Hillary J. Haldane, co-editor of Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence“Defiance in Exile provides compelling first-person testimony of Syrian women’s experiences in the al-Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The accounts are vivid and well-presented, and we need to hear such voices to counteract the often hostile rhetoric about Syrian refugees that one hears in North Atlantic countries.” —Kim Shively, author of Islam in Modern Turkey"If there is a 'must read' book inspired by what has happened to Syria and Syrians over the past decade, this is it. In telling the gripping stories of Syrian refugee women dealing with dispossession while leading their families and affirming themselves, Defiance in Exile speaks with penetrating insight and jarring directness to each one of us. No one will come away from reading this book unmoved or unchanged." —Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, diplomat-in-residence at Bard College and former US special envoy to Syria"This hortatory collection of Syrian women refugees’ stories, this j'accuse against the evil Asad regime and a willfully oblivious world, is a call to awareness and action. Can you read these stories of loss, madness, despair, claustrophobia, and resilience without screaming that something must be done?" —Miriam Cooke, author of Dancing in Damascus"Defiance in Exile is a powerful testimony of hope despite war, unimaginable heartbreak, and economic hardship. It is a book that delivers on its promise to truly reveal what it is like to be in a refugee camp. And it closes with a profoundly moving message of the need to care for and be in solidarity with the oppressed." —Dawn Chatty, author of Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State"If you want to be aware of the desperate life of Syrian refugees living in camps outside their lost home country, this book is a must. Defiance in Exile reflects an urgent call to do something about the Syrian refugee crisis." —Nikolaos van Dam, former ambassador of the Netherlands and special envoy for Syria and author of Destroying a Nation"This slim volume by Athamneh and Masud movingly portrays the tragic condition of the millions of Syrians uprooted from their country because of the ongoing civil war that began in 2011. In particular, the authors focus on the impact on women living in the Zaatari refugee camp, located in the Jordanian desert." —ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Mission Is Born 1. A Chance To listen 2. How It All Started 3. Reaching The Camp 4. Memories And Tribulations 5. Saving The Children 6. Rising Amid The Pain Conclusion
£19.79
University of Washington Press Surviving the Sanctuary City
Book SynopsisOn the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcementOver the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their suffering testimonials and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering). Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival amoTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Locating Nepali New Yorkers Chapter 2. Language of Suffering, Language for Survival Chapter 3. The Logic of “Claimant Credibility” Chapter 4. Testimonial Coconstruction in the Asylum Backstage Chapter 5. The Production of Claimant-Workers Chapter 6. The Paradox of Visibility and Collective Censorship Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press Surviving the Sanctuary City
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Locating Nepali New Yorkers Chapter 2. Language of Suffering, Language for Survival Chapter 3. The Logic of “Claimant Credibility” Chapter 4. Testimonial Coconstruction in the Asylum Backstage Chapter 5. The Production of Claimant-Workers Chapter 6. The Paradox of Visibility and Collective Censorship Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index
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Yale University Press Traces of Survival
Book SynopsisThis compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, these 350 drawings were created by some of the country's 1.8 million refugees, providing a necessary outlet for their immense suffering and struggles associated with being temporarily displaced from their vocations as lawyers, teachers, farmers, and mothers. Originally presented as an exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale, this publication features a large group of these drawings exclusively selected by the artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Harnessing the power of visual art as a means for both personal expression and socio-political awareness, this innovative book represents the humanistic effort to provide a voice for the underrepresented and their unimaginable strife. Mercatorfonds is donating all profits from the sale of this book to the refugee camps in Iraq. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Counselling and Therapy with Refugees and Victims
Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book was acclaimed as a practical, insightful and humane guide for professionals in mental health, social work and voluntary and government agencies who are concerned with the care of refugees and other victims of political and military violence. These professionals can develop feelings of irritation, disappointment and hopelessness when their work seems not to have the expected result. Successful counselling and therapy require empathy with such victims of traumatic events. But empathy must be based on, and combined with, expertise and knowledge that is both scientific and research-based, and focused on the special needs of these victims. This book is written from the first-hand experience of a world expert in this field, and provides * A practical guide to clinical work with adult, child and adolescent victims * A conceptual framework which places treatment in the context of the main therapeutic approaches * A review of the research evidence thatTable of ContentsThe Experiences of Refugees. Traumatization and Uprooting: Theoretical Views. Diagnostic Appraisal. Working with Cultural Differences. Treatment Goals and the Therapeutic Relationship. Treatment of Crises and Symptoms. Restoring Emotional Stability. Victims of Sexual Violence. Children and Adolescents. Specific Issues in Working with Refugees. References. Indexes.
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University of California Press The Suitcase
Book SynopsisA collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, it includes stories that tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and courage.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD Cornel West INTRODUCTION THE SUITCASE The Journey Out Dreams of Home Everyday Refugee Life Children's Voices Starting Life Anew AFTERWORDS The ABCs of Exile Dubravka Ugresic The Face of Women Refugees from Muslim Communities: Algeria to Ex-Yugoslavia Marieme Helie-Lucas Beyond the Balkans judith Mayotte POSTSCRIPT This Is Not War Talk Julze Mertus NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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University of California Press Many Middle Passages
Book SynopsisPresents a perspective on the history of forced migration over 3 centuries and illuminates the centrality of movements of people in making of this world. This book traces the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction Marcus Rediker, Cassandra Pybus, and Emma Christopher 1. The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean Edward A. Alpers 2. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858--1866 Iain McCalman 3. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone James Warren 4. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and VOC Voyages to the Cape Nigel Penn 5. Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin's Voyage to Australia Cassandra Pybus 6. "The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]": Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists Emma Christopher 7. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790--1860 Clare Anderson 8. After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor Scott Reynolds Nelson 9. La Trata Amarilla: The "Yellow Trade" and the Middle Passage, 1847--1884 Evelyn Hu-DeHart 10. "A Most Irregular Traffic": The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade Laurence Brown 11. La Traite des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea Julia Martinez Afterword: "All of It Is Now" Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd Postscript: Gun-Slave Cycle Marcus Rediker Appendix Index
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University of California Press Body of Victim Body of Warrior
Book SynopsisLooks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Names, Transliteration, and Photographs Preface: The Kashmir Dispute and the Conflicts Within Conflict Ethnography Acknowledgments Introduction: The Social Production of Jihad Part One Between Hijarat and Jihad in Azad Kashmir 1 * Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir: Displacement, Borders, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging 2 Protective Migration and Armed Struggle: Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam Part Two The Historical Emergence of Kashmiri Refugees as Political Subjects 3 Forging Political Identities, 1947--1988: The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages 4 Transforming Political Identities, 1989--2001: Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime Part Three Body of Victim, Body of Warrior 5 Human Rights and Jihad: Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body 6 The Mujahid as Family-Man: Sex, Death, and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body Conclusion: From Muhajir to Mujahid to Jihadi in the Global Order of Things Postscript: And, "Humanitarian Jihad" Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Bans Walls Raids Sanctuary
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary, Paik has given us an essential guide to our current moment that is both forward looking and well informed by the past. Students, organizers, and activists alike will find this clear and accessible book useful and inspiring." * H-Net *"This is a slim and accessible text that could serve as an introduction to some of the most pressing legal, political, and ethical issues of our day." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction 1. Bans 2. Walls 3. Raids 4. Sanctuary Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Further Resources
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University of California Press Bans Walls Raids Sanctuary
Book SynopsisDays after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive ordersthese authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration's approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president's xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. She deftly demonstrates that attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, and queer and gender nonconforming people. Against this history of barriers and assaults, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary mounts a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all.Trade Review“This book provides a diagnosis and suggests a way forward toward a better future. . . . Abolitionist sanctuary combines the radical welcome of sanctuary with the transformative vision of abolition. It sees migration as linked to many other struggles for justice. It is only through collaboration and reimagination, Paik argues, that we will be able to achieve lasting change.” * Public Books *"In Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary, Paik has given us an essential guide to our current moment that is both forward looking and well informed by the past. Students, organizers, and activists alike will find this clear and accessible book useful and inspiring." * H-Net *"This is a slim and accessible text that could serve as an introduction to some of the most pressing legal, political, and ethical issues of our day." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction 1. Bans 2. Walls 3. Raids 4. Sanctuary Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Further Resources
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University of California Press In Camps Vietnamese Refugees Asylum Seekers and
Book SynopsisRobert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for Asian American StudiesAfter the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of what happened in the camps. In Campsraises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong,In Campsis the first major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay close attention to host territories and to explore Vietnamese activism in the camps and the diaspora. This book explains how Vietnamese were transformed from de facto refugees to individual asylum seekers to repatriates. Ambitiously covering people on the groundlocal governments, teachers, and corrections officersas well as powerful players such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US government, Jana Lipman shows that the local politics of first asylum sites often drove international refugee policy. Unsettling most accounts of Southeast Asian migration to the US,In Campsinstead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and experiences.Trade Review"A major contribution to refugee history. In Camps offers a clearly written and carefully contextualized account of the encounters and interactions between the various elements in the international refugee regime: government authorities, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and refugees themselves. This book will also be of considerable value to teachers and researchers interested in contemporary human rights issues in relation to the treatment of refugees, as well as to anyone seeking a fresh perspective on the history of Southeast Asia." * Middle Ground Journal *"Makes an essential contribution to understanding the politics of refugee status determination and protection during the Vietnamese refugee crisis between 1975 and 2005. I recommend it as a well-researched, engaging and informative read." * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *"Spanning four host contexts from 1975 to 2005, Jana K. Lipman’s book absorbingly uncovers how Vietnamese in camps, regional authorities, and diasporic activists shaped the politics of refugee status determination. Lipman charts the uneven transformation of Vietnamese from de facto refugees to asylum seekers and repatriates. . . . A key reference for students and scholars of Southeast Asia, forced displacement, and resettlement." * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *“Through microhistories that examine the inner politics of camps in Guam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, Lipman captures the vibrant—and at times conflicting—advocacy that occurred regarding the fate of millions of Vietnamese, and the domestic politics that intersected with their refugee claims.” * Mekong Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 • "Give Us a Ship": The Vietnamese Repatriate Movement on Guam, 1975 2 • To "Shoot" or to "Shoo": Vietnamese in Malaysia, 1975–1979 3 • A Model Camp 4 • Hong Kong: Deterrence, Detention, and Repatriation, 1980–1989 5 • "Protest against Forced Repatriation!": Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Hong Kong, 1989–1997 6 • Palawan and Diasporic Imaginaries, 1996–2005 Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Wastelands Recycled Commodities and the Perpetual
Book SynopsisWastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecution in Kosovo, many Ashkali refugees fled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they were stigmatized as Gypsies, consigned to slums, sidelined from the economy, and subjected to violence. To survive, Ashkali collect the only resource available to them: garbage. Vividly recounting everyday life in an illegal Romani settlement, Eirik Saethre follows Ashkali as they scavenge through dumpsters, build shacks, siphon electricity, negotiate the recycling trade, and migrate between Belgrade, Kosovo, and the European Union. He argues that trash is not just a means of survival: it reinforces the status of Ashkali and Roma as polluted Others, creates indissoluble bonds to transnational capitalism, enfeebles bodies, and establishes a localized sovereignty.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Other World 1. The Sociality of Exception 2. Precarious Domesticity 3. Abject Economies 4. Constrained Aspirations 5. Relocations Conclusion: Jebem Ti Život Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Suspended Lives
Book SynopsisSuspended Livesexplores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of suffering. She takes readers into the intimate spaces of asylum seekers' homes and communities, in addition to legal and bureaucratic settings that are often inaccessible to the public. Poignantly foregrounding the lives and voices of asylum seekers, Suspended Lives exposes the asylum system as a site of multiple, yet often hidden and normalized, forms of violence. Haas also illuminates how asylum seekers respond to tTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction 1. Violence of In/Visibility 2. Limbo and the Violence of Waiting 3. Socioeconomic Violence and Its Ripple Effects 4. Epistemic Violence in Asylum Adjudication 5. The Aftermaths of Asylum Decisions Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Almost Futures
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University of California Press Shackled
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface Part I 1 ICE Air 2 On the Tarmac 3 Civil War 4 Shiqaal Subclan 5 Foreigner 6 The Struggle 7 Glades County Jail 8 Krome Service Processing Center Part II 9 Stay of Deportation 10 Jurisdiction 11 Contempt of Court 12 Motion to Reopen 13 Day in Court 14 Journey’s End Epilogue Acknowledgments Sources and Notes Index
£22.50
Harvard University Press In a Sea of Bitterness
Book SynopsisThe Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led 30 million Chinese to flee their homes in terror, and live—in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai—“in a sea of bitterness” as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee experience in one province, Zhejiang, where the Japanese launched notorious campaigns.Trade ReviewMakes a signal contribution to the understanding of warfare in China by examining the refugee experience comprehensively. The great strength of this book is that it focuses on an entire province, one whose history and geography the author knows intimately. Schoppa takes an important step towards fulfilling the call, made by the eminent historian Parks Coble, for scholars to explore more deeply the traumatic effects of this war on civilians. -- Rebecca Nedostup, author of Superstitious RegimesA stunning account of the horrific experiences of Chinese refugees during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45. Focusing on people's actual sentiments rather than state-generated propaganda, Schoppa finds that personal concerns, not the interests of the nation, were uppermost in the minds of refugees. He also shows that refugee strategies were profoundly shaped by the preeminent importance in Chinese culture of native place and the complex networks of human connections associated with it. In the brutal caldron of war, local attachments, which were concrete, trumped more abstract national ones. -- Paul A. Cohen, author of Speaking to HistoryJapan's "Rape of Nanking" is infamous. Less well known are the massacres at Qiaosi and countless other places. In a moving, relentless narrative, Keith Schoppa shows how Japanese bombing, arson, rape, pillage and murder in the first years of war unleashed a "tsunami of refugees" across China. Rulers and ruled, teachers and students, merchants and customers, farmers and artisans went on the run. This is the story of how they lived, coped, resisted, remembered or died in one Chinese province. Schoppa takes us back to "a world where ghosts wailed," when local, national and global destinies were sorted out. This is a masterful and sobering history. -- William C. Kirby, editor of The People's Republic of China at 60The brutal Japanese invasion of China in 1937 forced more than 30 million Chinese to flee their homes and subsist in regions of their country unfamiliar to them as refugees until the end of World War II. Schoppa retraces the stories of these refugees, produced from oral histories, journals, and memoirs chronicling a turbulent period in one particular province--Zhejiang, on the central Chinese coast. The terrorizing offensives of mass murder, rape, and germ warfare launched by the Japanese militarists brought about the most demoralizing sense of political, cultural, and psychological dislocation in Chinese history...A moving narrative for serious readers in Chinese or Japanese history and in the history of 20th-century warfare in East Asia. -- Allan Cho * Library Journal *Schoppa relies primarily on the direct accounts of diarists to illustrate the confusion and emotional distress that accompanied the physical hardships of being without a home during wartime--particularly for a culture that places such a high value on the concept of home. The era Schoppa revisits in this book is a dark one--as one refugee says, the loss of his home in the war thrust him into a "sea of bitterness"--but with measured analysis and an arsenal of facts, he sheds light on the war's forgotten refugees. * Publishers Weekly *
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Princeton University Press Refuge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Eastern Sociological Society Book Award""[Gowayed] urges a global reckoning with the violence . . . that our obsession with national boundaries brings." * The Christian Century *"A concisely written, enjoyable read. . . . It is important that a wide audience reads books like this."---Alfons Fermin, Journal of Urban Affairs
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Pluto Press Bullets in Envelopes
Book SynopsisThe social and intellectual history of Iraq told through the academic, political and social experiences of Iraqi academics in exileTrade Review'These life stories of academics from around the globe tell a vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq' -- miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University'Searing! The American assault aimed to 'end' the Iraqi state and shatter the culture that sustained it. Yako retrieves the stories of some sixty displaced Iraqi academics. Distillations of their experiences read as if written on shards of glass that penetrate the skin and wound the heart' -- Raymond W. Baker, Board Director, International Council for Middle East Studies, Washington, D.C.'Luis Yako's thinking is as compelling as his writing. 'Bullets in Envelopes' persuasively shifts the politics of argumentation. He uses anthropology to convey the existential turbulence of academics in exile after the US invasion, instead of using academics to advance the discipline' -- Walter D. Mignolo, author of 'The Politics of Decolonial Investigations' (Duke University Press, 2021)'Excavates a searing genealogy of loss that documents Iraqi academics' displacement, through a powerful account of the travails of higher education and the links between power and knowledge' -- Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Story of This Story 2. A Nuanced Understanding of Iraq during the Ba'ath Era 3. The Ba'ath Era: Iraqi Academics Looking Back 4. The UN Sanctions: Consenting to Occupation through Starvation 5. The Occupation: Paving the Road to Exile and Displacement 6. Lives under Contract: The Transition to the Corporate University 7. Language as a Metonym for Politics 8. Final Reflections: Home, Exile, and the Future
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Pluto Press Voices from the Jungle
Book SynopsisA shocking but inspirational collection of stories by refugees in the former Calais camp in FranceTrade Review'These first-hand accounts of the suffering endured by the refugees fleeing unmitigated horror in their homelands paints a far more vivid picture than anything we read in the press or see on television. If you want to understand fully the extent of what refugees are being forced to endure under our very noses, please read this book' -- Julie Christie'Home is the first thing we experience as human beings in this world; somewhere we know, safe and warm, somewhere that keeps us. When we are forced out, we lose a little bit of ourselves; leaving us less whole. However, through these poems, these stories, we reclaim that home and the humanity that is lost with what comes with being labelled a refugee. Writing this is not only a way for the world to know us, but a way that we may know ourselves, once again' -- JJ Bola, Writer, Poet, Author of No Place to Call Home (2017)'Read this powerful book' -- Counterfire'Gives those who have been ignored, dehumanised and abused because of who they are the platform they deserve to explain the reality of life as a refugee' -- Morning StarTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Home 2. Journeys 3. Living in the ‘Jungle’: Arriving, Exploring and Settling In 4. Living in and Leaving the ‘Jungle’: Connecting, Longing and Trying to Leave 5. Life After the ‘Jungle’ Conclusion
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Pluto Press Voices from the Jungle Stories from the Calais
Book SynopsisA shocking but inspirational collection of stories by refugees in the former Calais camp in FranceTrade Review'These first-hand accounts of the suffering endured by the refugees fleeing unmitigated horror in their homelands paints a far more vivid picture than anything we read in the press or see on television. If you want to understand fully the extent of what refugees are being forced to endure under our very noses, please read this book' -- Julie Christie'Home is the first thing we experience as human beings in this world; somewhere we know, safe and warm, somewhere that keeps us. When we are forced out, we lose a little bit of ourselves; leaving us less whole. However, through these poems, these stories, we reclaim that home and the humanity that is lost with what comes with being labelled a refugee. Writing this is not only a way for the world to know us, but a way that we may know ourselves, once again' -- JJ Bola, Writer, Poet, Author of No Place to Call Home (2017)'Read this powerful book' -- Counterfire'Gives those who have been ignored, dehumanised and abused because of who they are the platform they deserve to explain the reality of life as a refugee' -- Morning StarTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Home 2. Journeys 3. Living in the ‘Jungle’: Arriving, Exploring and Settling In 4. Living in and Leaving the ‘Jungle’: Connecting, Longing and Trying to Leave 5. Life After the ‘Jungle’ Conclusion
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McGill-Queen's University Press From Righteousness to Far Right
Book SynopsisAn innovative ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden.Trade Review"Through a compelling analysis, Mc Cluskey demonstrates how central the day-to-day practices of everyday people are to understanding the emergence of big phenomena like the global rise of the far right, moving away from a focus on ideology or high politics." E-International Relations"This book provides a basic introduction to the field of critical security studies and would be a great text for individuals who are new to the Scandinavian region and the world of Far Right language." H-Net
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Cornell University Press The Concerned Women of Buduburam
Book SynopsisIn The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-standing refugee camp. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the host government of Ghana established the Buduburam Refugee Camp in 1990.Trade ReviewHolzer's engagingly written text is unique in establishing... how women and men experience refugee relief that has morphed into a system of rule. Holzer’s attention to the motivations of all involved in the clash between the Liberian refugees, the Ghanaian host government, and the UNHCR is commendable. Along with delineating how social complexities of age, gender, ethnicity, and migration route impact camp politics, she describes the constraints imposed by the basic structures of humanitarian aid. Concerned Women of Buduburam is an unflinching and vital interrogation of the practical pitfalls and theoretical nuances of humanitarian aid. -- Abena Ampofoa Asare * Mobilization *The author deploys both extensive ethnographic research and a nuanced review of social theory, examining the 'themes of civic engagement, transnational government, administrative caregiving, political legitimacy, contentious politics and repression.' Integrating their impact, she names the resulting form of rule 'compassionate authoritarianism': compassionate in that its goal is to relieve the suffering of a displaced and traumatized population and authoritarian because clients lack power to pursue their own ends, are blocked from expressing discontent, and are incapable of receiving compensation for administrative failings. -- S. J. Gold * Choice *This book is a must read for all those concerned with transnational governance, the practicalities and ethics of humanitarian aid, and human rights in general. -- Katarzyna Grabska, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "The Midnight Hour in This Refugee Crisis"Part I. Everyday Politics in Crisis 1. Achieving Everyday Life in Humanitarian Crisis 2. Civic Engagement in the Refugee Camp 3. Bifurcated GovernmentalityPart II. Contentious Politics in Crisis 4. The Concerned Women Protests 5. Refugee Dissent as a Social Problem 6. Legitimacy in Repression's AftermathConclusion: Compassionate AuthoritarianismMethodological Appendix: Public Sociology and Private Compromise References Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Coming Home
Book SynopsisThe essays in Coming Home? examine the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront social pressures and sense of displacement.Trade Review"Coming Home? offers ethnographically rich portrayals of the way the imaginings and realities of 'home' affect refugee experiences and subjectivities. . . . The volume is an important contribution to migration scholarship and an especially welcome examination of the overlooked and understudied phenomenon of return migration." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward an Ethnography of Return —Ellen Oxfeld and Lynellyn Long PART I: IMAGINED RETURN Chapter 1: Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return —John Janzen Chapter 2: Contemplating Repatriation to Eritrea —Lucia Ann McSpadden Chapter 3: Filipina Depictions of Migrant Life for Those at Home —Jane Margold PART II: PROVISIONAL RETURN Chapter 4: Viet Khieu on a Fast Track Back? —Lynellyn Long Chapter 5: Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits —Ellen Oxfeld Chapter 6: Changing Filipina Identities and Ambivalent Returns —Nicole Constable PART III: REPATRIATED RETURN Chapter 7: Returning German Jews and Questions of Identity —John Borneman Chapter 8: Repatriation and Social Class in Nicaragua —James Phillips Chapter 9: Refugee Returns to Sarajevo and Their Challenge to Contemporary Narratives of Mobility —Anders H. Stefansson Chapter 10: The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement —Laura Hammond Chapter 11West Indian Migrants and their Rediscovery of Barbados —George Gmelch Chapter 12: An Historical Exploration of "Coming Home" from Central Africa —David Newbury Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments
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Fordham University Press A is for Asylum Seeker Words for People on the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | xiv Introducción | xv Translator’s Note | xxxii Nota de Traductora | xxxiii Asylum Seeker | 2 Asilo | 3 Accompaniment | 10 Acompañamiento | 11 Camp | 18 Campamento | 19 Caravan | 26 Caravana | 27 Citizen | 32 Ciudadana | 33 Climate Refugee | 40 Refugiada Climática | 41 Denizen | 48 Habitante | 49 Deportee | 56 Deportade | 57 Detainee | 64 Detenide | 65 DREAMer | 72 DREAMer | 73 Enemy Alien | 80 Extranjero Enemigo | 81 Expatriate | 88 Expatriada | 89 Foreign-Born | 96 Nacides en el Extranjero | 97 Fugitive | 104 Fugitivo | 105 Guest Worker | 112 Trabajador Invitado | 113 Illegal Alien | 118 Extranjero Ilegal | 119 Immigrant | 124 Inmigrante | 125 Itinerant | 130 Nómade | 131 Know Your Rights | 138 Conozca Sus Derechos | 139 Migrant | 144 Migrante | 145 People on the Move | 152 Personas en Movimiento | 153 Refugee | 160 Refugiade | 161 Sanctuary | 168 Santuario | 169 Unaccompanied Minor | 176 Menor Desacompañade | 177 Undocumented | 184 Indocumentado | 185 Unhoused | 192 Sin Casa | 193 Vagrant | 200 Vagante | 201 Visa | 208 Visa | 209 Xenophobia | 216 Xenofobia | 217 Zero Tolerance | 226 Tolerancia Cero | 227 Epilogue: The Right to Stay Home | 234 Epilogo: El Derecho de Quedarse en Casa | 235 Acknowledgments | 242 Agradecimientos | 243 Works Cited | 247 Para Leer Más | 257 Resources for People on the Move / Recursos Para Personas en Movimiento | 259
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