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Book SynopsisIt is headline news that forced migration due to conflict, persecution, and violence is a world-wide human catastrophe in which over 68 million people have been displaced. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) currently reports that one in every 110 people are forced to flee their homes and that someone is forced to flee their home every two seconds. Over 40 million people are internally displaced persons, people who have fled their homes but remain in their home country. Over 25 million are refugees, people who have forsaken their homes and homeland. They have crossed their country’s borders seeking safety and refuge.
This volume brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, to explore the current face of migration conflict. Including personal narratives, academic papers, and artistic research, this volume is split into four sections, looking at the social structure of conflict, voices of resilience, humanitarian advocacy, and art and hope. This timely collection is a relevant book for courses in sociology, anthropology, political science, and courses centering on the global problem of conflict and forced migration.
Trade ReviewThis volume compiles 13 chapters by scholars, former refugees, a social worker, and an artist from North America, Indonesia, and Turkey, who discuss aspects of forced migration, refugees, and conflict. They offer personal narratives, academic papers, and artistic research as they discuss the circumstances of conflict and forced migration that have impacted the countries people flee from and flee to, including the process of coming to the US as an asylum seeker, the refugee experience and solidarity strategies of the Circassian diaspora, and the crisis of conflict in Darfur and the structures of global climate change, race, and gender; stories of resilience and agency in escaping oppression and migrating to the US; humanitarian and policy responses, including child protection policy in an anti-immigration context in the US, children left behind and the trauma they experience, and the humanitarian response of Scholars for Syria, an organization to help Syrian students who resettled in the US; and art as a form of hope and social consciousness, with discussion of refugees in the novels of
Bildungsroman and a mural arts project with Syrian youth and their families. -- Copyright 2019 * Portland, OR *
Table of ContentsPart One: The Social Structure of Conflict 1. The Asylum-seeking Process: An American Tradition;
Gil Richard Musolf 2. The Crisis in Darfur and the Social Structure of Global Climate Change, Race, and Gender;
Michael J. Papa and Wendy H. Papa 3. Transnational Solidarity of Circassians In-Between Caucasus and Middle East;
Ulaş Sunata Part Two: Voices of Survival, Resilience, and Hope 4. The Rock in the Stream;
Mari Malek 5. From War to Peace: Loved Back to Life;
Nafije Krasniqu Prishtina 6. Bendito Infierno;
Derick Abrigu and Maria Silva 7. Falling in Love with a Refugee;
Kim Schultz 8. Re-thinking the "starting point" for research: The challenges and possibilities for building reflexive knowledge with and about queer and trans migrants;
Edward Ou Jin Lee and Abelardo Leon Part Three: Humanitarian Advocacy 9. The Social Construction of Child Protection in an Anti-Immigration Context;
Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Myrna McNitt, and Erna Maria Rizeria Dinata 10. The Children Left Behind;
Karen Gordon 11. A Heart Shaped Like Syria;
Gail Vignola Part Four: Art and Hope 12. The Art of Re-
Bildung the Refugee: Agency Through Literary Structure in the
Bildungsroman;
Alexandra Christian Budny 13. The Syrian Refugee Art Project;
Joel Bergner
