Kingdom Of Barracks

Author : Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228018377

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Kingdom of Barracks by Katarzyna Nowak Pdf

After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million forcibly displaced Polish people illuminate the painfully long process of reckoning with war and its fallout. Drawing on rich primary material unearthed in over a dozen archives, Kingdom of Barracks depicts the texture of everyday life in refugee camps in post–World War II Europe within a panorama of the social and cultural history of the twentieth century. Western Allies and Polish social elites construed the camps as spaces for rehabilitating and “re-civilizing” refugees to prepare them for the reconstruction of war-torn countries and a rebirth of the nation. On the ground, refugees lived in close proximity, sharing bug-infested barracks with people from other regions, social classes, and wartime experiences. Taking a bottom-up perspective and exploring the formation of cultural identity in exile through the lenses of class, gender, body, and nationality, Katarzyna Nowak argues that Polish DPs’ experiences of displacement stimulated a personal and a collective revival understood in religious and national terms. In an age of intensifying forced displacement, Kingdom of Barracks sheds new light on past experiences of war and migration that are still deeply relevant in the present.

Author : Geoffrey Cameron
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228006008

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Send Them Here by Geoffrey Cameron Pdf

The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Between 1945 and 1980, both countries transformed their previous policies of refugee deterrence into expansive resettlement programs. Explanations for this shift have typically focused on Cold War foreign policy, but there was a domestic force that propelled the rise of resettlement: religious groups. In Send Them Here Geoffrey Cameron explains the genesis and development of refugee resettlement policy in North America through the lens of the essential role played by faith-based organizations. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish groups led advocacy efforts for refugees after the Second World War, and they cooperated with each other and their respective governments to implement the first formal resettlement programs. Those policy frameworks laid the foundation for diverging policy trajectories in each country, leading ultimately to private sponsorship in Canada and the voluntary agency program in the United States. Religious groups remain embedded in the world’s most successful refugee resettlement programs. Send Them Here draws on a rich archival record and extensive comparative research to contribute new insights to the history of refugee policy, human rights, and the role of religion in modern policymaking and global humanitarian efforts.

Author : Shauna Labman,Geoffrey Cameron
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002758

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Strangers to Neighbours by Shauna Labman,Geoffrey Cameron Pdf

As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers to Neighbours explains the origins and development of refugee sponsorship, paying particular attention to the unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas it produces for refugee policy. The contributors to this collection draw upon law, social science, and philosophy to bring a more robust and objective perspective on Canada's historical experience with sponsorship into wider conversations about the refugee crisis and resettlement. Together, they present recent cases that exemplify how the model has been applied and how it functions, while also analyzing the challenges that emerge in host-sponsor relations. This volume further examines how sponsorship has been implemented differently in countries such as the United States and Australia. The first dedicated study of refugee sponsorship policy, Strangers to Neighbours assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to consider whether Canada's system is indeed a sustainable model for the world.

Author : Tereska Torres
Publisher : She Winked Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936456147

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Women's Barracks by Tereska Torres Pdf

First Digital Edition; Grier Rating: A*** This is the true-life story of what happens when scores of young girls live intimately together in a French military barracks. Many of these girls, utterly innocent and inexperienced, meet other women who have lived every type of existence. Their problems, their temptations, their fights and failures are those faced by all women who are forced to live together during dangerous and stressful times. The girls who chose Tereska Torres, the author, as their confidante poured out to her their most intimate feelings, their secret thoughts. With all of its revelations and tenderness, Women’s Barracks is an important book because it tells a story that had never been truly told before--the story of women in war. It also has the special distinction of being the first “lesbian pulp” novel ever published and became a record-breaking bestseller. This autobiographical novel takes place in London, England during World War II. The terror of the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombings, and the resulting fires and destruction, are an unknown experience to most readers. The women enduring these events were not even 20 years old when they first arrived. Many volunteered to be there. They were French, or of French heritage, and wanted to be part of the effort to help protect France from invasion by the Nazis. Throughout it all, passions flare, long-standing taboos are tossed to the wind, and passionate relationships are begun between older, more experienced butch officers and the young, inexperienced femme girls under their charge. In her telling of these women’s stories, Torres remains nonjudgmental of the lesbian relationships these women explored. Perhaps as a result, Women’s Barracks was banned in several states for being obscene. The House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials denounced the book in 1952 as an illustration of how the newly emerging paperback industry was breeding and promoting moral depravity. By today’s standards, of course, the book is somewhat tame; however, the eroticism and honesty with which Torres writes immerses the reader in the love, tenderness, loyalty and passion that women share with each other.

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062376886

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The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff Pdf

The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.

Author : Katarzyna Grabska,Christina R. Clark-Kazak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228009504

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Documenting Displacement by Katarzyna Grabska,Christina R. Clark-Kazak Pdf

Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. This project critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective, and interdisciplinary approach. Documenting Displacement explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers. Innovative in its use of arts-based methods, Documenting Displacement invites researchers to explore new avenues guided not only by the procedural ethics imposed by academic institutions, but also by a relational ethics that more fully considers the position of the researcher and the interests of those who have been displaced.

Author : Feyzi Baban,Suzan Ilcan,Kim Rygiel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228009191

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The Precarious Lives of Syrians by Feyzi Baban,Suzan Ilcan,Kim Rygiel Pdf

Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions. The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to stay, and to escape. The authors draw on migration policies, legal and scholarly materials, and five years of extensive field research with local, national, and international humanitarian organizations, and with Syrians from all walks of life. The Precarious Lives of Syrians offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of migration precarity in our contemporary context.

Author : Thomas Brettell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019023535

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A Topographical and Historical Guide to the Isle of Wight, etc. [With plates and maps.] by Thomas Brettell Pdf

Author : Emily Pelley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228010043

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Finding Safe Harbour by Emily Pelley Pdf

The global refugee crisis is staggering in scope. The United Nations Refugee Agency reported that 79.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2019, and over half of all displaced persons were under eighteen. As the number of children and teenagers seeking asylum continues to grow, the impact of displacement on a young person’s well-being and development over the long term requires further study. In Finding Safe Harbour Emily Pelley investigates the current response to refugee youth in Canada by highlighting how Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a mid-sized urban centre, has mobilized services and resources to support young people seeking refuge. Opening with a broad contextual introduction to the global crisis of displacement and the impact of violence and armed conflict on young people, Pelley focuses on the reciprocal adaptation that is required for the long-term integration of displaced youth into the receiving society. A concise and illuminating study on refugee resettlement, Finding Safe Harbour concludes with an in-depth discussion of how cities can optimize resilience resources through meaningful engagement with refugee youth.

Author : Henry Brooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1747
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11731306

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The Secret History and Memoirs of the Barracks of Ireland by Henry Brooke Pdf

Author : Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1747
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017775897

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The Secret History and Memoirs of the Barracks of Ireland. The Second Edition by Ireland Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Central Statistical Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112052442578

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Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom by Great Britain. Central Statistical Office Pdf

Each no. contains statistics for each preceding 15 years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103001475

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Report of the Army Medical Department, Great Britain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Idil Atak,James C. Simeon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773555648

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The Criminalization of Migration by Idil Atak,James C. Simeon Pdf

With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as a nation of immigrants and touted as one of the most generous countries in the world today for its reception of refugees, has not been immune from these practices. This book examines "crimmigration" – the criminalization of migration – from national and comparative perspectives, drawing attention to the increasing use of criminal law measures, public policies, and practices that stigmatize or diminish the rights of forced migrants and refugees within a dominant public discourse that not only stereotypes and criminalizes but marginalizes forced migrants. Leading researchers, legal scholars, and practitioners provide in-depth analyses of theoretical concerns, legal and public policy dimensions, historic migration crises, and the current dynamics and future prospects of crimmigration. The editors situate each chapter within the existing migration literature and outline a way forward for the decriminalization of migration through the vigorous promotion and advancement of human rights. Building on recent legal, policy, academic, and advocacy initiatives, The Criminalization of Migration maps how the predominant trend toward the criminalization of migration in Canada and abroad can be reversed for the benefit of all, especially those forced to migrate for the protection of their inherent human rights and dignity.

Author : Great Britain. War Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Military law
ISBN : UOM:35112105403002

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Manual of Military Law by Great Britain. War Office Pdf