Refugees and political asylum Books

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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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook maintains that refugees need to be seen as core indicators of the failure of national, international, economic, and political governance, and provides critical analyses of the legal ordering of refugees, giving a glimpse at what the future of refugee law could – and should – look like.Trade Review'...he has also brought into the Handbook new issues and debates that have arisen in the context of the changing politics around refugees. The book brings to the forefront the clear uncertainty surrounding many of the issues. I found the book compelling and engaging... the topics examined in the Handbook are interesting,and the Handbook is a useful reference tool or introduction to specific topics, issues and debates. The book will benefit academic researchers, postgraduate students, government officials, practising lawyers and lawyers who work in policy. I would recommend this book as a useful guide for the ongoing process of challenging and rethinking refugee law as a whole.' -- Nandi Rayner, South African Law JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I Refugees, Displaced Persons & the rise of Temporary Protection 1. At the Crossroads: The 1951 Convention Today Julian Lehman 2. The 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa Tamara Wood 3. Internally Displaced Persons Bríd Ní Ghráinne 4. In-Country Programs Claire Higgins 5. Temporary Protection of Forced Migrants Meltem Ineli-Ciger Part II Burden-sharing, Internal Relocation & the shift to Cooperation Agreements 6. Burden-Sharing in Refugee Law Eddie Bruce-Jones 7. The Rise of Consensual Containment Giuffre and Moreno-Lax 8. Responsibility-Sharing in Latin America Stefania Barichello 9. The Internal Protection Alternative and its Relation to Refugee Status Jessica Schultz 10. Gatekeepers of Asylum Satvinder Juss and Jeni Mitchell 11. International Models of Deterrence and the Future of Access to Asylum Nikolas Feith Tan Part III Non-Refoulement of Refugees and their Non-Penalisation 12. What is the Future of Non-Refoulement in International Refugee Law? James Simeon 13. Constructive Refoulement Pene Mathew 14. The Prosecution of Asylum-Seekers Yewa Holiday 15. Australia & the Refugee Convention. Savitri Taylor Part IV Family Re-Union, Gender Discrimination, Gay Rights, Human Trafficking and Climate Refugees 16. The Rights to Refugee Family Reunion Emily Darling 17. The Art of Drawing Lines Janna Wessels 18. The Rights of Women Seeking Asylum Nora Honkala 19. Sexual Orientation and Refugee law Tawseef Khan 20. Human Trafficking and Refugee Law Vladislava Stoyanova 21. Climate Refugees and the 1951 Convention Matthew Scott Part V The Exclusion and Rejection of Refugees 22. New Directions in Article 1D Jurisprudence Kate Ogg 23. The War on Terror and Refugee Law Sarah Singer 24. The Exclusion Clauses in Refugee Law Joseph Rikhoff 25. The Removal of Undesirable Asylum Seekers Joris Wijk and Maarten Bolhuis 26. Reviewing Review Rowena Moffatt Index

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Migration explores the opportunities and tensions posed by migration today and makes a series of strong, workable proposals for managing it effectively. An exploration of the opportunities and tensions posed by migration today. Written by some of the foremost international experts on migration and citizenship issues. Focuses on migration in Europe and North America. Covers issues such as the rise of the far right, the international politics of refugees, the impact of migration on labour markets and welfare states, citizenship, public opinion and the integration of Muslims in Europe. Makes strong, workable recommendations for managing migration more effectively. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sarah Spencer (Institute of Public Policy Research). 2. Migration to Europe Since 1945: Its History and its Lessons: Randall Hansen (University of Oxford). 3. Managing Rapid and Deep Change in the Newest Age of Migration: Demetrios G. Papademetriou (Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC). 4. The Economic Impact of Labour Migration: Mark Kleinman (University of Bristol). 5. Refugees and the Global Politics of Asylum: Jeff Crisp (Head of the Evaluation and policy Analysis Unit at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees). 6. The Closing of the European Gates? The New Populist Parties of Europe: John Lloyd (Financial Times). 7. Muslims and the Politics of Difference: Tariq Modood (University of Bristol). 8. The Politics of European Union Migration Policy: Claude Moraes MEP (Member of the European Parliament). 9. The Politics of US Immigration Reform: Susan Martin (Georgetown University). 10. Migration and the Welfare State in Europe: Andrew Geddes (University of Liverpool). 11. Understanding Anti-Asylum Rhetoric: Restrictive Politics or Racist Publics?: Paul Statham (University of Leeds). 12. Immigration and the Politics of Public Opinion: Shamit Saggar (Yale University). 13. Immigration, Citizenship, Multiculturalism: Exploring the Links: Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario).

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Book SynopsisAimed at students and scholars of ancient history, this highly accessible book will fascinate anyone interested in the burgeoning fields of refugee and diaspora studies.Trade Review... the attempt to humanize ancient warfare is a worthy endeavor and Garland is to be commended for managing this effort well, painting a vivid and universalizing picture of the human causes and consequences of war with which we can, sadly, too easily relate. Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrologueI The Origins II The EvacuationIII The First BurningIV The Second BurningV The Post-War PeriodEpilogueAfterlifeA Note on the SourcesChronologyAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further Reading

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.Trade Review"Precarious Lives shouldn't simply be used to highlight the flaws in the UK immigration system; rather, the book is compelling as a means to improve the system, especially in this globalised society." LSE Review of Books"Precarious Lives breaks new ground by focusing on the working experiences of new and refused asylum seekers as well as trafficked workers in the UK. It exposes the role of hte state in causing and perpetrating modern slavery and makes a powerful demand for action. It should be essential reading for politicians as well as campaigners." Jane Wills, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Free markets, closed borders: migration policy and entry into forced labour; Experiences of forced labour; Status matters: socio-legal status and forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees; The struggle to exit exploitation; From forced labour to unfreedom : conceptualising migrant lives; Conclusions: Hyper precarity.

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.Trade Review"Precarious Lives shouldn't simply be used to highlight the flaws in the UK immigration system; rather, the book is compelling as a means to improve the system, especially in this globalised society." LSE Review of Books"Precarious Lives breaks new ground by focusing on the working experiences of new and refused asylum seekers as well as trafficked workers in the UK. It exposes the role of hte state in causing and perpetrating modern slavery and makes a powerful demand for action. It should be essential reading for politicians as well as campaigners." Jane Wills, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Free markets, closed borders: migration policy and entry into forced labour; Experiences of forced labour; Status matters: socio-legal status and forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees; The struggle to exit exploitation; From forced labour to unfreedom : conceptualising migrant lives; Conclusions: Hyper precarity.

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Book SynopsisIssues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement together with empirical illustrations of the creative, cultural ways in which communities reflect upon their experiences of change, and how they respond, including through poetry and story-telling, photography and other art forms, exploring the scope for building communities of solidarity and social justice. The concluding chapters identify potential implications for policy and professional practice to promote communities of solidarity, addressing the structural causes of widening inequalities, taking account of different interests, including those related to social class, gender, ethnicity, age, ability and faith.Trade Review"Highly topical and rich in creative ideas on how to increase solidarities, this book will provide an inspiration to those promoting social cohesion" Ines Newman, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University, and author of Reclaiming local democracy (Policy Press, 2014)"In an international context of change and volatility, this book presents an important resource for policy makers, practitioners and activists. Most importantly, it presents the reader with the voices of displaced people themselves." Mae Shaw, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction; Explaining displacement; Violence and the fear of violence; Development and redevelopment; Taking account of market pressures; Moving by ‘choice?; Policy implications; Towards conclusions.

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Book SynopsisIssues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement together with empirical illustrations of the creative, cultural ways in which communities reflect upon their experiences of change, and how they respond, including through poetry and story-telling, photography and other art forms, exploring the scope for building communities of solidarity and social justice. The concluding chapters identify potential implications for policy and professional practice to promote communities of solidarity, addressing the structural causes of widening inequalities, taking account of different interests, including those related to social class, gender, ethnicity, age, ability and faith.Trade Review"Highly topical and rich in creative ideas on how to increase solidarities, this book will provide an inspiration to those promoting social cohesion" Ines Newman, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University, and author of Reclaiming local democracy (Policy Press, 2014)"In an international context of change and volatility, this book presents an important resource for policy makers, practitioners and activists. Most importantly, it presents the reader with the voices of displaced people themselves." Mae Shaw, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction; Explaining displacement; Violence and the fear of violence; Development and redevelopment; Taking account of market pressures; Moving by ‘choice?; Policy implications; Towards conclusions.

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Book SynopsisExploring in depth the journeys migrant youth take through the UK legal and care systems, this book contributes new thinking, from a social justice perspective, on migration and human rights for policy, practice and future research.Trade Review“The aspirations, experiences and trajectories of unaccompanied young migrants are at the core of this important edited collection which includes some of most knowledgeable experts in the field.” Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham“This important and timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of current challenges related to forced migration, from the perspective of unaccompanied children and youths’ subordinated position, while also emphasising their resilience.” Anna Lundberg, Linköping universityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Lord Alf Dubs Introduction ~ Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta and Katie Willis Section 1: Framing the youth migration debate Migration regimes and border controls: the crisis in Europe ~ Katie Willis and Sue Clayton Dilemmas and conflicts in the legal system ~ Sheona York and Richard Warren Caring for and about unaccompanied migrant youth ~ Anna Gupta Section 2: Exploring migrant youth identities Preface: Voices of separated migrant youth ~ Sue Clayton Narrating the young migrant journey: themes of self-representation ~ Sue Clayton From individual vulnerability to collective resistance: responding to the emotional impact of trauma on unaccompanied children seeking asylum ~ Gillian Hughes Spaces of belonging and social care ~ Louise Drammeh 'Durable solutions’ when turning 18 ~ Lucy Williams Section 3: International perspectives A relational approach to unaccompanied minor migration, detention, and protection in Mexico and the US ~ Mario Bruzzone and Luis Enrique González-Araiza Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries ~ Hilde Lidén Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in Australia ~ Kim Robinson and Sandra M. Gifford Conclusion ~ Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta and Katie Willis

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights embodiment as a qualitative research tool and outlines what it means to do embodied research in research. It shows how using this non-invasive approach with vulnerable research participants can help service users or research participants to be involved in the co- production of services and in participatory research.Trade Review"A valuable resource for researchers, theorists, and students looking for frameworks and rich examples of creative and participatory approaches to research methods in community contexts” Mia Perry, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsIntroduction Beyond phenomenology: embodiment in qualitative research Doing embodied research: participatory and creative approaches Collage-making with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women Digital embodiments: a two-day workshop with migrant women Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the journey of victims/survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking into and within the UK, from recruitment to representation to (re)integration. It offers crucial suggestions for better public awareness, policies and practices that will impact interventions in the UK and beyond.Table of ContentsForeword by Patricia Hynes Introduction: Victim journeys, survivors’ voice - Runa Lazzarino, J. Julia, Emily, and Carole Murphy Part I: Recruiting: business and tools 1. Criminal pyramid scheme: organised crime recruitment strategies - Sasha Jesperson and Rune Henriksen 2. Organ trafficking: a neglected aspect of modern slavery - Trevor Stammers 3. Online child sexual exploitation in the Philippines: addressing demand - Imogen Fell and Sasha Jesperson 4. The role of business in the exploitation and rehabilitation of victims of modern slavery - Colleen Theron Part II: Being a victim: discourses and representations 5. Trafficking on film: a critical survey - Jon Hackett 6. Discursive representations of the ‘invisible migrants’ on British social media - Thi-Diem-Tu Tran and Karen Sanders 7. Racialising and criminalising vulnerable migrants: the case of human trafficking and modern slavery - Neena Samota and Debbie Ariyo 8. Victims perpetrating a crime: a critique of responses to criminal exploitation and modern slavery in the UK - Craig H. Barlow Part III: Caring: practices and resilience 9. Subject-making in ambiguous systems: trafficking aftercare in the UK and beyond - Runa Lazzarino and Anne-Marie Greenslade 10. Sexual exploitation: framing women’s needs and experiences - Kathryn Hodges, Anta Brachou and Sarah Burch 11. Survivor support: how a values-based service can enhance access to psychological capital - Carole Murphy and Karen Anstiss 12. Imagining otherwise: art and movement as tools for recovery - Anna Westin 13. Monitoring and evaluating anti-trafficking measures - Ruth Van Dyke and Mike Dottridge Conclusion: Interrupting the journey - Carole Murphy and Runa Lazzarino

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Yugoslavia's efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs.Trade Review"A vivid and nuanced picture of the difficult choices faced by a state seeking to govern its citizens abroad and of the mixed feelings about the homeland that its citizens abroad developed … It will be of great interest and inspiration well beyond Yugoslav studies, in a world in which labor migration continues to be an important phenomenon." -- Sara Bernard, University of Glasgow * Slavic Review *"A fascinating account of a complex social phenomenon … Citizens without Borders can be considered as the first systematic attempt to write about work migrations from Yugoslavia in general." -- Ondřej Daniel, Charles University * American Historical Review *“An insightful, fresh, and fascinating perspective on the implications of transnational policies for socialist Yugoslavia and beyond.” -- Francesca Rolandi, Masaryk Institute * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Seeing Migrants 2. Seeing Migration Like a State 3. Picturing Migrants: The Gastabajter in Yugoslav Film Part II: Building Ties 4. A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting 5. A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants 6. Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers’ Associations 7. Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys 8. Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation 9. They Felt the Breath of the Homeland 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmong Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policy-makers and social scientists and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema. Created to nurture ties with migrants and their children, state cultural, educational, and informational programs were a way of continuing to govern across international borders. These programs relied heavily on the promotion of the idea of homeland. Le Normand examines the many ways in which migrants responded to these efforts and how they perceived their own relationship to the homeland, based on their migration experiences. Citizens without Borders shows how, in their efforts to win Trade Review"A vivid and nuanced picture of the difficult choices faced by a state seeking to govern its citizens abroad and of the mixed feelings about the homeland that its citizens abroad developed … It will be of great interest and inspiration well beyond Yugoslav studies, in a world in which labor migration continues to be an important phenomenon." -- Sara Bernard, University of Glasgow * Slavic Review *"A fascinating account of a complex social phenomenon … Citizens without Borders can be considered as the first systematic attempt to write about work migrations from Yugoslavia in general." -- Ondřej Daniel, Charles University * American Historical Review *“An insightful, fresh, and fascinating perspective on the implications of transnational policies for socialist Yugoslavia and beyond.” -- Francesca Rolandi, Masaryk Institute * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Seeing Migrants 2. Seeing Migration Like a State 3. Picturing Migrants: The Gastabajter in Yugoslav Film Part II: Building Ties 4. A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting 5. A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants 6. Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers’ Associations 7. Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys 8. Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation 9. They Felt the Breath of the Homeland 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaking Middle-Class Multiculturalism re-interprets the historiography of the emergence of Canada's universal immigration policy for skilled workers and family immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bureaucratic Discretion in the Historical Canadian Context 3. Race/State/Nation: From Racist Exclusion to Intersectional Inclusion 4. Individual Merit and the Making of Multicultural Skilled Workers 5. Putting the “Class” in “Family Class” 6. Conclusion: The Legacy of Middle-Class Multiculturalism Methodological Appendix Endnotes Bibliography Tables

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats’ perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats’ interpretations of immigration files generated selection criterTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bureaucratic Discretion in the Historical Canadian Context 3. Race/State/Nation: From Racist Exclusion to Intersectional Inclusion 4. Individual Merit and the Making of Multicultural Skilled Workers 5. Putting the “Class” in “Family Class” 6. Conclusion: The Legacy of Middle-Class Multiculturalism Methodological Appendix Endnotes Bibliography Tables

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Book SynopsisA collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combineelements of history and mythology. Guéboconsiders the Mediterranean not only as a literal space but also as a space of expectation, anxiety, hope, and anguish for migrants. Hemeditates onthe long history of narratives and bodies trafficked across the Mediterranean Sea. What did it—and what does it—connect and separate? Whose sea is it? Ultimately he is searchingfor what motivates a person to become part of what he calls a “seasonal suicide epidemic.” This translation of Guébo’s <Trade Review“Defiantly elegant. It is elegy and evocation, a summoning of the dead as a chorus speaking to those who do not see, or do not care, to remind them of the consciousness of Earth and of history’s will to life, and the ordering of change. . . . The poet’s hand is essential to our redemption.”—Afaa M. Weaver, author of The Plum Flower Dance and Multitudes “I can’t help but be moved by this large ambition of Josué Guébo, by his impossible task of bringing together poetics as different as those of Whitman and Mallarmé, by his huge desire to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves and also to find the secret of lyric utterance.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Musica HumanaTable of ContentsIntroduction by John Keene Translator’s Note Think of Lampedusa Notes

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Book SynopsisAkoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships (2010-13) and was a threetime AllState player. He's also a South Sudanese refugee. In a fluid, intimate, and joyful narrative, Steve Marantz relates Akoy's refugee journey of basketball, family, romance, social media, and coming of age at Nebraska's oldest and most diverse high school.Trade Review"Marantz’s book is a subtle plea for another path, a path of openness and inclusion that recognizes a common humanity across cultural divides. For basketball fans and readers interested and invested in Omaha’s past, present, and future, Citizen Akoy should be of great interest."—Paul Emory Putz, Nebraska History“[Citizen Akoy] is a mesmerizing and enjoyable story of Akoy, his family, his romance, his trials and tribulations, and most importantly, of America. This well-researched book is a gift to lovers of basketball. It is a must-read for basketball fans.”—Washington Book Review “I’m convinced that the greatest basketball player in the next one hundred years will be a Dinka tribesman originally from southern Sudan. Size and grace will win the day. Akoy Agau will be mentioned as one of the building blocks in this history. Here is his amazing story. Magic abounds.”—Leigh Montville, author of Manute: The Center of Two Worlds and Sting Like a Bee“Akoy’s amazing journey from refugee to basketball star isn’t just about sports. It’s a story of growing up, transcending race, and pursuing dreams, and Marantz tells it well.”—Henry Cordes, staff writer for the Omaha World-Herald and author of Unbeatable and Devaney“The antidote to anti-immigrant rhetoric, Citizen Akoy tells the vivid story of the refugee as the hero of our time, one Akoy Agau, a teenage basketball star who becomes an ambassador for sports-crazy white Nebraska. Thrilling—a must-read for anyone excited by what it takes to be an American today.”—Terese Svoboda, author of Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Refugee 1. Adaw 2. First Thanksgiving 3. Street of Dreams 4. Prophecy 5. Central 6. Trust 7. Stardom 8. To Absent Moms 9. “True Faith and Allegiance” 10. @ZerotheHeroAkoy 11. Families 12. Perfection 13. Basketball and Business 14. Temptation and Decision 15. Standing Bear and Brando 16. Dynasty Blues 17. Four! 18. Spring Prom 19. Repatriation 20. Getting It Right 21. Beyond Postscript: Pop Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBoth personal revelation and world history, replete with tales from pilots, mechanics, and all those whose lives intersected there, Flights from Fassberg provides context to the Berlin Airlift and its strategic impact, the development of NATO, and the establishment of the West German nation.

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Book SynopsisIn The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy''s remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessionscolonies, protectorates, and provincesin Africa and the Balkans, the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these national refugees into a country devastated by war and overwhelmed by foreign displaced persons from Eastern Europe. Post-World War II Italy served as an important laboratory, in which categories differentiating foreign refugees (who had crossed national boundaries) from national refugees (those who presumably did not) were debated, refined, and consolidated. Such distinctions resonated far beyond that particular historical moment, informing legal frameworks that remain in place today. Offering an alternative genealogy of the postwar international refugee regime, Ballinger focuses on the consequences of one of its key omissions: the ineligibility from international refuTrade ReviewPamela Ballinger has authored a densely documented, conceptually strong, and beautifully written book that compellingly proves the point made by Peter Gatrell and others: Putting the histories of migration center-stage opens up new and productive vistas onto the nations and, indeed, the world refugees made. * H-Africa *While Ballinger's book hopefully encourages more research on this inner-Italian topic, it is already indispensable for the study of twentieth-century internationalism, the postwar refugee regime, and the beginnings of European decolonization. It brilliantly locates Italian decolonization in the context of the emerging postwar international order that redrew borders, redefined citizenship, and handled the global displaced-persons crisis. * American Historical Review *In her recent book, The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger offers a pathbreaking study of how the process of decolonization shaped and affected Italy after 1945. The methodological approaches and arguments developed in The World Refugees Made will certainly inspire a new generation of studies on postwar Europe and refugees. * Contemporanea *The World Refugees Made is a complex and fascinating work that demonstrates how necessary it is to analyze Italy's post–World War II reconstruction as an international and colonial/postcolonial history. It will be informative and intriguing to students and nonspecialists, and challenging and provocative to scholars of its relevant fields. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mobile Histories 1. Empire as Prelude 2. Wartime Repatriations and the Beginnings of Decolonization 3. Italy's Long Decolonization in the Era of Intergovernmentalism 4. Displaced Persons and the Borders of Citizenship 5. Reclaiming Facism, Housing the Nation Conclusion: "We Will Return"

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Book SynopsisAmerica's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's Black communities, Arab refugees struggle to find employment and to rebuild their lives. Iraqi and Lebanese refugees who have fled from war zones also face several serious health challenges. Uncovering the depths of these challenges, Inhorn's ethnography follows refugees in Detroit suffering reproductive health problems requiring in vitro fertilization (IVF). Without money to afford costly IVF services, Arab refugee couples are caught in a state of "reproductive exile"—unable to return to war-torn countries with shattered healthcare systems, but unable to access affordable IVF services in America. America's Arab Refugees questions America's responsibility for, and commitment to, Arab refugees, mounting a powerful call to end the violence in the Middle East, assist war orphans and uprooted families, take better care of Arab refugees in this country, and provide them with equitable and affordable healthcare services.Trade Review"This timely and important ethnography examines the untold human cost of the crisis in the Middle East, the global interconnection of suffering, and the embodiment of war and displacement on refugees even after they are resettled. Marcia C. Inhorn has expertly woven the traumatic experiences of Arab refugees to the United States with racial disparity and poverty in America. America's Arab Refugees is a story that must be told, and read." -- Salmaan Keshavjee * Harvard Medical School *"A brilliant weaving of insights from the Black Lives Matter movement and intersectional theory, Inhorn compassionately documents the valiant struggles of Arab refugee populations to rise above discrimination in the USA. Inspiring and eye-opening, this book draws out parallels between the racism faced by African-Americans and Arab refugees, broadening the horizon of movements for social justice." -- Suad Joseph * University of California, Davis *"America's Arab Refugees illuminates issues of critical importance for everyone—especially Americans. Inhorn helps us come to grips with Arab Americans' real experiences of war, displacement, racism, poverty, and broken health care. Every reader has something to learn from these men and women negotiating infertility treatments, as they keep hope alive in the midst of adversity and show resolve to work for a better future for themselves, their families, and our world." -- Seth Holmes * author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States *"Inhorn makes a powerful argument that Arab lives, and their reproductive rights, matter. Scholars, students, and laypeople interested in rebuilding social and family life in the aftermath of conflict, in refugees and related policy, or anyone who wants to get to know their new Arab neighbors in asylum countries will find this book insightful and thought-provoking." -- Lindsay Gifford * Middle East Journal *"In this moving and thought-provoking ethnography, Inhorn reveals what seems to be absent from the US media, namely, the formidable suffering, be it physical, emotional, or financial, endured by her interlocutors... This extraordinary and original book goes where others have not, in asking the United States to fulfill its moral obligation toward this vulnerable population and urging policymakers to consider 'ethical questions about health-care equity and social justice—or lack thereof—for refugees and immigrants in the US health-care system'" -- Jonas Elbousty * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: When Arabs Fled: A Legacy of Conflict chapter abstractNo world region has been more affected by political violence than the Middle East. Prior to 2011, fifteen of the twenty-two Middle Eastern nation-states had suffered from protracted conflicts. Directly and indirectly, the United States has participated in this violence through its long history of military intervention, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, three new wars have emerged in the Middle East, including the devastating war in Syria. Arabs now constitute the largest percentage of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world. This chapter explores these wars, as well as the flight of Arab refugees to the United States, and introduces readers to the Arab ethnic enclave community known as "Arab Detroit," where the author conducted a five-year anthropological study on the poverty, vulnerability, and reproductive health challenges facing Arab refugees in America. 1Why They Fled: War and the Health Costs of Conflict chapter abstractThis chapter highlights the devastating impact of war on human health. Focusing on war "syndemics," or the interlocking health problems that surface and often kill during times of political violence, Chapter 1 examines the health costs of war in Lebanon and Iraq, the two home countries from which most residents of Arab Detroit fled. Wars in Iraq and Lebanon generated physical, mental, and reproductive health problems, as well as damage to the social structure, infrastructure, and environment. These health costs of conflict are shown through the war stories of several Lebanese and Iraqi men and women, who arrived in the United States after surviving the misery of war. As their stories show, Arab Detroit is home to many traumatized war victims, who attribute their ongoing reproductive health problems to war and its effects. 2Where They Resettled: Poverty on the Margins of Detroit chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on Arab refugee resettlement in the United States. It questions the strategies of the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), including the quantity and quality of assistance given to Arab refugees, especially from Iraq. The chapter asks whether refugee resettlement in economically struggling cities such as Detroit has been a wise decision. It also compares the concentrated poverty and discrimination facing both black and Arab Detroit residents. Poverty affects their ability to secure safe housing, stable employment and education, and the means to improve their standard of living. This chapter thus locates Arab poverty on the margins of Detroit, now the nation's poorest large city. Arab refugees placed in Detroit face many forms of structural vulnerability, the effects of which are shown in this chapter. 3How They Struggle: Health Disparities and Unequal Treatment chapter abstractThis chapter explores the health struggles and reproductive health disparities facing Arab refugees. Drawing inspiration from intersectionality theory forwarded by black feminist scholars, this chapter depicts the reproductive racism faced by both blacks and Arabs, who are seen as "undeserving" reproducers of "black and brown babies" (and future "terrorists," in the case of Arab refugees). Yet infertility is a major reproductive health problem for both of these populations. Among Arab refugees, men in particular face severe male infertility problems, partly due to the stresses, injuries, and toxins of war. In vitro fertilization (IVF) services are costly in the United States—approximately $12,500 per cycle—and rarely covered by insurance. Thus, affording IVF is a profound challenge for impoverished Arab couples, who are effectively banished from the world of test-tube baby making. 4What They Feel: Reproductive Exile between Moral Worlds chapter abstractThis chapter examines the existential feelings of exile among infertile couples in Arab Detroit, who find themselves straddling American secular and Muslim moral worlds in their quests for conception. Islamic religious authorities have condoned IVF to overcome infertility, leading to the growth of a robust IVF industry in the Muslim world. Some infertile Arab couples are able to undertake "reproductive tourism" back to their home countries for this purpose. However, for Iraqi refugees, their home country has been decimated by ongoing war, ISIS violence, and a shattered medical system. Thus, they exist in a state of "reproductive exile," unable to return home but also unable to access IVF in the United States, the most costly nation in the world. Because marriage and parenthood are normative dimensions of adult personhood for Arab couples, reproductive exile may invoke marital crises, as Arab men and women face pressure to achieve their reproductive dreams. Conclusion: Arab Lives Matter: Why America Must Care chapter abstractThe conclusion looks to the future, asking what will happen to vulnerable Arab refugee populations around the world. Four important strategies for improving refugee welfare are described. They include stopping wars in the Middle East, saving war orphans and uprooted Arab families, taking better care of Arab refugees in America, and ensuring health equity and reproductive justice for poor Arab couples, through a global movement for low-cost in vitro fertilization (LCIVF). Given the ongoing wars in the Middle East and the world's worst refugee crisis since WWII, Americans must take a stronger moral stance against war and do more to advocate for refugee health and well-being. Given all that they have lost, Arab refugees deserve to rebuild their family lives in America. Arab lives do matter, and America must care.

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Book SynopsisRefugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.Trade Review"Strangers at Our Door puts forward an alternative narrative, one that is humanitarian, about refugees and migrants. It succeeds in combating the racist propaganda churned out by the media and our politicians." Socialist ReviewTable of Contents1. Migration Panic and its (Mis)uses 2. Floating Insecurity in Search of an Anchor 3. On Strongmen's (and Strongwomen's) Trail 4. Together and Crowded 5. Troublesome, Annoying, Unwanted: Inadmissible... 6. Anthropological vs. Time-bound Roots of Hatred

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Book SynopsisBy foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route." In this perceptive account from the front line of the "refugee crisis," Kermani shows how a seemingly distant world in which war and conflict rage has suddenly collided with our own. Kermani describes the situation on the Turkish west coast where thousands of refugees live in the most desperate conditions, waiting to take the perilous journey across the Mediterranean. Then, on Lesbos, he observes the culture shock amongst those who have survived the ordeal by sea. He speaks to aid workers and politicians, but most importantly of all to the refugees themselves, asking those who have come from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere what has driven them to risk everything and embark on the long and treacherous journey to Europe. With great sensitivity Kermani reveals, often through small details, the cultural and political upheaval that has caused people to uproot their lives, and at the same time shining a light on Europe's inadequate and at times openly hostile response to the refugees. Interspersed with powerful images by the acclaimed photographer Moises Saman, Upheaval is a much-needed human account of a crisis we cannot ignore.Trade Review"Kermani once more shows his brilliance as a reporter."—Der Standard "The real significance of this reportage lies in the many questions Kermani poses to the reader, in the face of the refugee crisis and its political consequences, as well as rampant levels of hate and fear—questions that cannot remain unanswered."—Die Tagespost "Among the most thoughtful intellectual voices in Germany today."—The New York Review of Books "The moral power behind Kermani's extraordinary achievements is scarcely paralleled among all the great figures of German literature."—Süddeutsche Zeitung "Kermani doesn't conceal a thing. He records everything that he sees and hears. But he also says what he thinks of it all...masterful."—Frankfurter Rundschau "Does Kermani just tell the nice stories? No, he is too good for that. He shows empathy towards the refugees, but also looks more closely to reveal the complex reasons for their flight."—Die Welt "In Upheaval, Navid Kermani shows what a serious public discussion of migration could look like."—Deutschlandradio"Kermani has done a great job of not only capturing something of what the refugees are experiencing as they take the last stage of their journey to what they hope will be a new world, but the mood of the people whose hands they pass through. He shines a light in the dark spaces of our current world and exposes the dirty and shameful way we treat our fellow human beings."—http://blogcritics.org/

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Book SynopsisBy foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route." In this perceptive account from the front line of the "refugee crisis," Kermani shows how a seemingly distant world in which war and conflict rage has suddenly collided with our own. Kermani describes the situation on the Turkish west coast where thousands of refugees live in the most desperate conditions, waiting to take the perilous journey across the Mediterranean. Then, on Lesbos, he observes the culture shock amongst those who have survived the ordeal by sea. He speaks to aid workers and politicians, but most importantly of all to the refugees themselves, asking those who have come from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere what has driven them to risk everything and embark on the long and treacherous journey to Europe. With great sensitivity Kermani reveals, often through small details, the cultural and political upheaval that has caused people to uproot their lives, and at the same time shining a light on Europe's inadequate and at times openly hostile response to the refugees. Interspersed with powerful images by the acclaimed photographer Moises Saman, Upheaval is a much-needed human account of a crisis we cannot ignore.Trade Review"Kermani once more shows his brilliance as a reporter."—Der Standard "The real significance of this reportage lies in the many questions Kermani poses to the reader, in the face of the refugee crisis and its political consequences, as well as rampant levels of hate and fear—questions that cannot remain unanswered."—Die Tagespost "Among the most thoughtful intellectual voices in Germany today."—The New York Review of Books "The moral power behind Kermani's extraordinary achievements is scarcely paralleled among all the great figures of German literature."—Süddeutsche Zeitung "Kermani doesn't conceal a thing. He records everything that he sees and hears. But he also says what he thinks of it all...masterful."—Frankfurter Rundschau "Does Kermani just tell the nice stories? No, he is too good for that. He shows empathy towards the refugees, but also looks more closely to reveal the complex reasons for their flight."—Die Welt "In Upheaval, Navid Kermani shows what a serious public discussion of migration could look like."—Deutschlandradio"Kermani has done a great job of not only capturing something of what the refugees are experiencing as they take the last stage of their journey to what they hope will be a new world, but the mood of the people whose hands they pass through. He shines a light in the dark spaces of our current world and exposes the dirty and shameful way we treat our fellow human beings."—http://blogcritics.org/

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Book SynopsisEvery minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority. But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane 'win-win' strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.Trade Review“Jacqueline Bhabha has long been one of the most astute observers of forced migration. Here, she brings her insight to bear on this great issue of our time, offering original and compelling ways of rethinking the challenges ahead.” Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford “This readable yet impressively researched book provides a comprehensive account of how we should think about one of the most complex and urgent problems of our time.” Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former UN Commissioner for Human Rights and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice"This book is an insightful and passionate argument for finding a humane resolution to the problems that cause and attend distress migration."Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - A Crisis Like No Other? Chapter 2 - A Duty of Care Chapter 3 - The System at Breaking Point Chapter 4 - Finding Workable and Humane Solutions References Further Reading

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Book SynopsisEvery minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority. But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane 'win-win' strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.Trade Review“Jacqueline Bhabha has long been one of the most astute observers of forced migration. Here, she brings her insight to bear on this great issue of our time, offering original and compelling ways of rethinking the challenges ahead.” Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford “This readable yet impressively researched book provides a comprehensive account of how we should think about one of the most complex and urgent problems of our time.” Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former UN Commissioner for Human Rights and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate JusticeTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - A Crisis Like No Other? Chapter 2 - A Duty of Care Chapter 3 - The System at Breaking Point Chapter 4 - Finding Workable and Humane Solutions References Further Reading

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Book SynopsisFor 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. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all those living there were transferred to a single camp that became known as ‘the Jungle’. Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site, intended to make its inhabitants as invisible as possible, was instead the focal point of international concern about the plight of migrants and refugees. This new book is the first full account of life inside the Jungle and its relation to the global migration crisis. Anthropologist Michel Agier and his colleagues use the particular circumstances of the Jungle, localized in space and time, to analyse broader changes under way in our societies, both locally and globally. They examine the architecture of the camp, reconstruct how everyday life and routine operated and analyse the mixed reactions to the Jungle, from hostile government policies to movements of solidarity. This comprehensive account of the life and death of Europe’s most infamous camp for migrants and refugees demonstrates that, far from being an isolated case, the Jungle of Calais brings into sharp relief the issues that confront us all today, in a world where the large-scale movement of people has become, and is likely to remain, a central feature of social and political life.Trade Review‘In this detailed depiction of life in “the Jungle”, Michel Agier and colleagues offer a powerful, poetic argument about the power and value of place. Taking seriously the lives of those in the camp, this work is a much-needed recognition of their experience and an acknowledgement of their humanity.’Michael Collyer, University of Sussex ‘In this work, Michel Agier brings his formidable intellect to bear on how we should understand the Calais “Jungle”. The result is a notable contribution to contemporary discussions of mobility, solidarity, precarity and, most importantly, how we think about Europe itself.’Matthew J. Gibney, University of OxfordTable of Contents List of illustrations Introduction: For a better understanding A longer history of the Jungle Europe and the migration question Calais as metonym for European crisisÉ and solidarity Chapter 1. Movement To and Fro: The Calais Region from 1986 to 2016 1986 – 1997: the indifference of the French authorities 1997 – 999: a growing attention 1999–2000: the Sangatte moment 2002: British control at the port of Calais The long years of eviction 2009 – ‘the closing of the Calais jungle’ : a new media sequence The network of voluntary organizations A brief ray of light The rise of the far right September 2014 onward: concentrate, disperse, control Chapter 2. From Sangatte to Calais: inhabiting the ‘Jungles’ Sangatte, 1999-2002 March 2015: Jungles, camps, squats April 2015 to October 2016: The Jungle or ‘The Art of Building Towns’ Chapter 3. A Sociology of the Jungle: Everyday Life in a Precarious Space Society under precarious conditions Settling in the shantytown Economic and social life Making a community Chapter 4. A Jungle of Solidarities Calais as a cosmopolitan crossroads of solidarities The situation in other encampments Mobilization networks: from local to national Chapter 5. Destruction, Dispersal, Returns ‘The biggest shantytown in Europe’ The sheltering operation as spectacle Dispersal After the demolition: returns and rejections Conclusion: The Calais Event The camp as hypertrophy of the border Cosmopolitics of the Jungle Postscript: How this Book was Written The Authors Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFor 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. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all those living there were transferred to a single camp that became known as ‘the Jungle’. Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site, intended to make its inhabitants as invisible as possible, was instead the focal point of international concern about the plight of migrants and refugees. This new book is the first full account of life inside the Jungle and its relation to the global migration crisis. Anthropologist Michel Agier and his colleagues use the particular circumstances of the Jungle, localized in space and time, to analyse broader changes under way in our societies, both locally and globally. They examine the architecture of the camp, reconstruct how everyday life and routine operated and analyse the mixed reactions to the Jungle, from hostile government policies to movements of solidarity. This comprehensive account of the life and death of Europe’s most infamous camp for migrants and refugees demonstrates that, far from being an isolated case, the Jungle of Calais brings into sharp relief the issues that confront us all today, in a world where the large-scale movement of people has become, and is likely to remain, a central feature of social and political life.Trade Review‘In this detailed depiction of life in “the Jungle”, Michel Agier and colleagues offer a powerful, poetic argument about the power and value of place. Taking seriously the lives of those in the camp, this work is a much-needed recognition of their experience and an acknowledgement of their humanity.’Michael Collyer, University of Sussex ‘In this work, Michel Agier brings his formidable intellect to bear on how we should understand the Calais “Jungle”. The result is a notable contribution to contemporary discussions of mobility, solidarity, precarity and, most importantly, how we think about Europe itself.’Matthew J. Gibney, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIllustrations vii Introduction for a better understanding 1 A longer history of the Jungle 2 Europe and the migration question 4 Calais as metonym for European crisis … and solidarity 7 1 Movement to and fro the Calais region from 1986 to 2016 14 1986–1997 the indifference of the French authorities 15 1997–1999 a growing attention 16 1999–2000 the Sangatte moment 18 2002 British control at the port of Calais 20 The long years of eviction 21 2009 ‘The closing of the Calais Jungle’ a new media sequence 24 The network of voluntary organizations 27 A brief ray of light 30 The rise of the far right 33 September 2014 onward concentrate, disperse, control 37 2 From Sangatte to Calais inhabiting the ‘Jungles’ 46 Sangatte, 1999–2002 46 March 2015 Jungles, camps, squats 49 April 2015 to October 2016 the Jungle or ‘the art of building towns’ 60 3 A sociology of the Jungle everyday life in a precarious space 76 Society under precarious conditions 76 Settling in the shantytown 81 Economic and social life 84 Making a community 91 4 A Jungle of solidarities 94 Calais as a cosmopolitan crossroads of solidarities 94 The situation in other encampments 103 Mobilization networks from local to national 109 5 Destruction, dispersal, returns 116 ‘The biggest shantytown in Europe’ 116 The sheltering operation as spectacle 122 Dispersal 126 After the demolition returns and rejections 130 Conclusion the Calais event 134 The camp as hypertrophy of the border 135 Cosmopolitics of the Jungle 138 Postscript how this book was written 144 The authors 145 Notes 149 Index 158

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Book SynopsisWho are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In a world of people fleeing from civil wars, state failure, and environmental disasters, these are ethically and politically pressing questions. In this book, David Owen reveals how the contemporary politics of refuge is structured by two rival historical pictures of refugees. In reconstructing this history, he advocates an understanding of refugeehood that moves us beyond our current impasse by distinguishing between what is owed to refugees in general and what is owed to different types of refugee. He provides an account of refugee protection and the forms of international cooperation required to implement it that is responsive to the claims of both refugees and states. At a time when refugee protection is once again prominent on the international agenda, this book offers a guide to understanding the challenges this topic raises and shows why addressing it matters for all of us.Trade Review‘David Owen provides historical, conceptual, principled and practical perspectives on questions about refugees. His book is clear and accessible, but also subtle and sophisticated. It greatly advances our understanding of this important issue.’Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto ‘A sparkling introduction to the central ethical issues raised by refugees from a respected philosopher. This work is a major contribution to our understanding of this great challenge of our time.’Matthew J. Gibney, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue: A Tale of Two Ships Introduction Picturing Refugees Who are Refugees? Responsibility for Refugees Predicaments of Protection Notes References

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Book SynopsisThrough case studies from Australia, Europe and the US, this book explores how emotion is central to understanding the formation of immigration policy. The author looks beyond the ‘negative’ emotions of fear and hostility to examine the politics of compassion in immigration and asylum policy discourse.Trade Review"Surely a must-read for scholars interested in the recent ‘refugee crisis’, and those who more broadly want to comprehend how compassion is used both to uphold and counter asylum and immigration policies… the first extensive study of how ‘benevolence’ is articulated in immigration and asylum debates in the ‘minority world’, making the book very topical and useful to understand ongoing events." Migration Studies, June 2019“This lucid, useful book throws new light on how we think about migration. It deftly links theory and evidence to explain the ‘compassionate refusal’ used to justify exclusionary migration policies.” Hannah Jones, University of WarwickTable of ContentsA crisis of compassion The emotional politics of immigration and asylum Emotion, colonialism and immigration policy The intolerable death of Alan Kurdi Victims, villains and saviours Withholding compassion Outrage, responsibility and accountability Self-care and solidarity: the undocumented immigrant youth movement Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and politically induced uncertainty. The authors offer an in-depth analysis of the experiences of over one hundred unaccompanied young migrants, primarily from Afghanistan, Albania and Eritrea. They show the lengths these young people will go to in pursuit of safety, security and the futures they aspire to. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book champions a new political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context of migration and demonstrates the urgent need for policy reform.Table of ContentsIntroduction Conceptualizing Wellbeing in the Context of Migration and Youth Transitions Capturing Wellbeing in Transition: An Alternative Approach ‘Iron Rod’ or ‘Colander’? Welfare Regimes in England and Italy The Pursuit of Safety and Freedom Legal Integrity and Recognition Identity and Belonging Constructing Viable Futures as ‘Adults’ Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Friendships, Connections and Relationships Transnational Family and Connections Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.Table of Contents1 Introduction - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, Eva Magdalena Stambøl 2 Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of `Liberated Africans´ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808-1860 - Laura Rosanne Adderley and Sharla M. Fett 3 Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918 - Ella Fratantuono 4 Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta & Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania - Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui and Elsa Tyszler 5 Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa - Eva Magdalena Stambøl and Leonie Jegen 6 Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection - Lina Ewert 7 Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission - Lucy Mayblin 8 The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya - Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen 9 Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands - Peter Teunissen and Penny Koutrolikou 10 The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India - Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil 11 Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity - Phillip Cole 12 Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia - Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and Jerónimo Botero Marino 13 The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement - Felicity Atieno Okoth 14 Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, and Eva Magdalena Stambøl

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Book SynopsisEvan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies. The promotion of refugee self-reliance is evident today, yet its history remains largely unexplored, with good practices and longstanding issues often missed. Through archival and contemporary evidence, this book documents a century of little-known efforts to foster refugee self-reliance, including the economic, political, and social motives driving this assistance. With five case studies from Greece, Tanzania, Pakistan, Uganda, and Egypt, the book tracks refugee self-reliance as a malleable concept used to pursue ulterior interests. It reshapes understandings of refugee self-reliance and delivers important messages for contemporary policy making. The first chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Why Refugee Self-Reliance? Chapter 2: Self-Sufficiency out of Necessity: Refugee Self-Reliance Assistance in Interwar Greece Chapter 3: Socialism and Self-Reliance: Refugee Self-Reliance Assistance in Post-Colonial East Africa Chapter 4: Warriors of Self-Reliance: Refugee Self-Reliance Assistance in Cold War Pakistan Chapter 5: Dignity in Informality? Urban refugee self-reliance assistance in Kampala, Uganda Chapter 6: Livelihoods 2.0? Refugee Self-Reliance and the Digital Gig Economy Chapter 7: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEvan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies. The promotion of refugee self-reliance is evident today, yet its history remains largely unexplored, with good practices and longstanding issues often missed. Through archival and contemporary evidence, this book documents a century of little-known efforts to foster refugee self-reliance, including the economic, political, and social motives driving this assistance. With five case studies from Greece, Tanzania, Pakistan, Uganda, and Egypt, the book tracks refugee self-reliance as a malleable concept used to pursue ulterior interests. It reshapes understandings of refugee self-reliance and delivers important messages for contemporary policy making. The first chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Why Refugee Self-Reliance? Chapter 2: Self-Sufficiency out of Necessity: Refugee Self-Reliance Assistance in Interwar Greece Chapter 3: Socialism and Self-Reliance: Refugee Self-Reliance Assistance in Post-Colonial East Africa Chapter 4: Warriors of Self-Reliance: Refugee Self-Reliance Assistance in Cold War Pakistan Chapter 5: Dignity in Informality? Urban refugee self-reliance assistance in Kampala, Uganda Chapter 6: Livelihoods 2.0? Refugee Self-Reliance and the Digital Gig Economy Chapter 7: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSyrian refugees who gained asylum in Germany following the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 quickly entered into an ‘integration regime’ which produced a binary notion of ‘well integrated’ migrants versus refugees falling short of the narrow social and political definitions of a ‘good’ refugee. Etzel’s rich ethnographic study shows how refugees navigated this conditional inclusion. While some asylum seekers gained international protection, others were left with limited agency to demand government accountability for the ever-moving target of integration. Putting a spotlight on the inconsistencies and failings of a universal approach to integration, this is an important contribution to the wider field of migration and anthropology of the state.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Arrival, Processing, Status 1. The Path to Asylum 2. Asylum Decisions and What Followed Thereafter Part 2: Integration 3. Young Refugee Men: Saarbrücken 4. Families: Osnabrück and Hameln Part 3: Stagnation, Independence, Dependence 5. Institutionalized Integration: Munich and Kassel 6. Pathways Forward and Pathways Uncertain Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBetween December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once the Nazis lost power. In practice, most of the kinder, as they called themselves, remained in Britain, eventually becoming citizens. This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children.After an analysis of the decision to allow the children entry and the machinery of rescue established to facilitate its implementation, the book follows the young refugees from their European homes to their resettlement in Britain either with foster families or in refugee hostels. Evacuated from the cities with hundreds of thousands of British children, they soon found themselves in the countryside with new foster families, who often had no idea how to deal with refugee children barely able to understand English. Members of particular refugee children's groups receive special attention: participants in the Youth Aliyah movement, who immigrated to the United States during the war to reunite with their families; those designated as "Friendly Enemy Aliens" at the war's outbreak, who were later deported to Australia and Canada; and Orthodox refugee children, who faced unique challenges attempting to maintain religious observance when placed with Gentile foster families who at times even attempted to convert them. Based on archival sources and follow-up interviews with refugee children both forty and seventy years after their flight to Britain, this book gives a unique perspective into the political, bureaucratic, and human aspects of the Kindertransport scheme prior to and during World War II.

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Book SynopsisFor most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures. Migrant World Making explores this process of constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies. With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. To match this variety, the transnational scholars represented here use a wide array of rhetorical, cultural, and communication methodologies and epistemologies to describe what the experience of migration means to those who have lived it.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the global community. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organisers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimise all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realise their full potential. This volume provides the reader with promising policies and practices that promote social justice and educational opportunity for the many displaced populations (migrants, asylum-seekers, refugees, and immigrants) around the globe. The volume is divided into four sections that offer: (1) insights into the educational integration of displaced children in industrialised nations, (2) methods of creating pedagogies of harmony within school environments, (3) ways to nurture school success by acknowledging and respecting the cultural traditions of newcomers, and finally (4) strategies to forge pathways to educational equity. Overall, this volume contributes to the body of knowledge on equitable educational opportunities for displaced youth and will be a valuable resource for all who seek to enable the displaced a place at the political, economic, and social table of civil society.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the global community. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organisers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimise all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realise their full potential. This volume provides the reader with promising policies and practices that promote social justice and educational opportunity for the many displaced populations (migrants, asylum-seekers, refugees, and immigrants) around the globe. The volume is divided into four sections that offer: (1) insights into the educational integration of displaced children in industrialised nations, (2) methods of creating pedagogies of harmony within school environments, (3) ways to nurture school success by acknowledging and respecting the cultural traditions of newcomers, and finally (4) strategies to forge pathways to educational equity. Overall, this volume contributes to the body of knowledge on equitable educational opportunities for displaced youth and will be a valuable resource for all who seek to enable the displaced a place at the political, economic, and social table of civil society.

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Book SynopsisU.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable “here” and an expendable “there.” In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn’t have to fight “on the streets of our cities.” But what do the millions of people who live over “there” have to say about U.S. interventions and the displacement they provoke?In this pathbreaking study, Alaina Kaus analyzes literature by and about refugees who fled Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, in the wake of U.S. military occupation and economic intervention. Narratives by authors such as Lan Cao, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Demetria MartÍnez, HÉctor Tobar, Dave Eggers, Mohsin Hamid, and Riverbend reveal contradictions in the human rights pledges that undergird U.S. foreign policy, which promote freedom while authorizing intervention and displacement, and favor market-based solutions over social justice and racial equality.Trade Review “A polished, well-written book that could easily be used in courses on post-45 literature, multiethnic literature, or immigrant histories.”—Mimi Thi Nguyen, author of The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages “Fighting Over There is groundbreaking in its examination of contemporary U.S. literature about refugees and timely given recent events, such as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that are sure to produce narratives about refugees, militarism, human rights, humanitarianism, and the United States.”—April Shemak, author of Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse

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Book SynopsisU.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable “here” and an expendable “there.” In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn’t have to fight “on the streets of our cities.” But what do the millions of people who live over “there” have to say about U.S. interventions and the displacement they provoke? In this pathbreaking study, Alaina Kaus analyzes literature by and about refugees who fled Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, in the wake of U.S. military occupation and economic intervention. Narratives by authors such as Lan Cao, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Demetria MartÍnez, HÉctor Tobar, Dave Eggers, Mohsin Hamid, and Riverbend reveal contradictions in the human rights pledges that undergird U.S. foreign policy, which promote freedom while authorizing intervention and displacement, and favor market-based solutions over social justice and racial equality.Trade Review “A polished, well-written book that could easily be used in courses on post-45 literature, multiethnic literature, or immigrant histories.”—Mimi Thi Nguyen, author of The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages “Fighting Over There is groundbreaking in its examination of contemporary U.S. literature about refugees and timely given recent events, such as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that are sure to produce narratives about refugees, militarism, human rights, humanitarianism, and the United States.”—April Shemak, author of Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse

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Book SynopsisWhat has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012?This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of offshore processing since it recommenced in 2012. It explains why offshore processing was re-established, what life is like for asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus, what asylum seekers, refugees and staff in the offshore detention centres have to say about what goes on there, and why the truth has been so hard to find. In doing so, it goes behind the rumours and allegations to reveal what is known – and what still is not known – about Australia’s offshore detention centres.

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Book SynopsisEveryone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. The government seeks to ‘stop the boats’ whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal.In this new book, Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong find that Australia’s policies towards refugees have hardened since their previous bestselling book was published five years ago. Now, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs provides a wholly updated account of Australian refugee law and policy.Clearly and carefully, they explain who a refugee is, what rights refugees have under international law, and whether Australia’s policies on offshore processing, detention, boat turnbacks and so on violate Australia’s obligations under international law. The book also outlines what a human rights-based protection framework might look like and how Australia could show greater global leadership on refugee issues, so as to expand the protection space available to refugees in the Asia-Pacific region. McAdam and Chong trace the ways in which draconian domestic laws enacted over recent years blatantly contravene international law –obligations that Australia has voluntarily signed up to. People seeking asylum, especially those held indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru, have been broken as a result. The crucial information and depth of understanding this book offers has never been more urgent.Key focal points: Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs is the most current book on the topic, and includes the so-called medevac legislation that became law on 1 March 2019. Includes full discussion of more recent developments such as Operation Sovereign Borders, with its focus on boat turnbacks, which are shrouded in secrecy. Covers the issue of whether refugees can bring their cases to Australian courts under the provisions of international law.

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Book SynopsisThe ongoing refugee and migrant crisis in Europe has accelerated the need to find answers for refugee movements. Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility examines regional cooperation as a potential solution. Through a thorough assessment of past and present regional arrangements concerning refugees, this book considers whether regionalism has resulted in protection and durable solutions for both refugees and participating states.Penelope Mathew and Tristan Harley critically examine the merits of regional approaches to refugee protection through a detailed examination of five major regions of the world and five regional arrangements. As well as drawing attention to the strengths and weaknesses of regional arrangements on a practical level, this book explores the normative debates regarding refugee protection as a moral imperative, deliberating on why and how responsibility for refugee protection should be shared. It concludes by advocating changes at both regional and global levels to ensure better refugee protection and equitable responsibility-sharing among countries.This comprehensive and contemporary work will interest both academics and students specializing in law, human rights or the political sciences as well as those studying philosophy who specialize in the study of forced migration. Its eminently practical approach also makes this book prime readership for human rights defenders and advocates as well as policy makers and legislators in the fields of refugee protection and forced migration.Trade Review'At a time when the Syrian refugee crisis is engulfing the EU, regional cooperation frameworks for refugee protection are increasingly being seen as the only fitting response to refugee movements. Yet, current examples such as the EU's agreement with Turkey, which came into effect in April 2016, has shown how intractable any regional solution to refugee problems is today. Under this, asylum-seekers returned from Greece are being deported back to their countries without their claims being assessed. This is in stark violation of the fundamental principles of the Refugee Convention. This comprehensive and timely study by renowned experts in the field helps us understand the proper role and function of regional cooperation agreements in a world riven with instability and economic chaos. This is an indispensable work. No one interested in understanding refugee law can afford to be without it.' --Satvinder Juss, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I REGIONALISM, RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY-SHARING 1. Regionalism and Refugee Protection 2. The Responsibility of States to Protect Refugees 3. Sharing Responsibility Among States PART II PAST AND PRESENT REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR REFUGEES 4. The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees 5. The International Conferences on Assistance to Refugees in Africa 6. The International Conference on Central American Refugees 7. The Common European Asylum System 8. The Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action and Cartagena+ 9. Lessons Learned Index

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