Refugee Pathways To Freedom

Author : Janet Mancini Billson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793606587

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Refugee Pathways to Freedom by Janet Mancini Billson Pdf

Janet Mancini Billson provides extended interviews with Russian, Bhutanese, Rohingya, and Kurdish refugees, and the resettlement workers who smooth their transition into Canada, in order to paint a complex picture of creating a new life in a new land. Refugee Pathways to Freedom: Escaping Persecution and Statelessness shows how the agonies of losing one’s home and leaving loved ones behind are coupled with the dangers of escaping into unknown territory, and that those who make the journey to freedom know that the dream of a safe and secure future is fraught with risks and disappointment. She argues that refugees and refugee agencies bring powerful ideas for revamping an overwhelmed global system that freezes victims of persecution in years of political and emotional limbo. She examines how shrinking refugee flows by addressing root causes of displacement is critical, but so is speeding up selection processes to reduce despair and lost years. She further posits that drastically limiting time in refugee camps would prevent counterproductive education and work gaps and that reducing language barriers to employment ensures well-being and successful integration.

Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781771132305

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Flight and Freedom by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner Pdf

Author : Isobel Coleman,Terra Lawson-Remer
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 087609566X

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Pathways to Freedom by Isobel Coleman,Terra Lawson-Remer Pdf

"Many developing countries have launched transitions from authoritarianism to democracy over the past twenty-five years. While some have succeeded in building relatively strong democracies with shared prosperity, others have stumbled. As a wave of change continues to unfold across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, the policy-relevant insights that can be gleaned from recent transitions are more salient than ever. Through case studies on Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and Ukraine, Pathways to freedom explores the structural factors and policy choices that shaped eight important transitions--some successful, others less so. The case studies focus on six themes: socioeconomic inclusion and exclusion, economic structure and policies, civil society and media, legal system and rule of law, government structure, and education and demography. Additional chapters examine these themes in light of the quantitative evidence on democratization and highlight concrete policy recommendations from across the case studies. With concise historical analysis and forward-looking prescriptions, Pathways to freedom offers an authoritative and accessible look at what countries must do to build durable and prosperous democracies--and what the United States and others can do to help"--Back cover.

Author : Gökçe Bayindir Goularas,Isil Zeynep Turkan Ipek,Edanur Önel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793602091

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Refugee Crises and Migration Policies by Gökçe Bayindir Goularas,Isil Zeynep Turkan Ipek,Edanur Önel Pdf

This edited volume examines European approaches to migrants, European Union migration policies, and the EU-Turkey refugee agreement through macro-level and micro-level analysis. It analyzes issues related to migration in Turkey and Syria and specifically studies at the Syrian refugee crisis. The contributors explore the migration phenomenon through economic and judicial perspectives.

Author : Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743822180

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Seeking Asylum by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Pdf

The voices Australia should hear This beautifully illustrated book captures the stories of those who have lived the experience of seeking asylum. In their own voices, contributors share how they came to be in Australia, and explore diverse aspects of their lives: growing up in a refugee camp, studying for a PhD, changing attitudes through soccer, being a Muslim in a small country town, campaigning against racism, surviving detention, holding onto culture, dreaming of being reunited with family. There are stories of love, pain, injustice, achievement and everything in between. Accompanied by beautiful portrait photographs, they show the depth and diversity of people’s experience and trace the impact of Australia’s immigration policies. Seeking Asylum also includes a foreword by Liliana Maria and an essay by Abdul Karim Hekmat on the human, social and political impact of Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum over the last fifty years. With an afterword by Kon Karapanagiotidis and supporting material demystifying Australia’s current policies from Julian Burnside, Seeking Asylum redefines assumptions about people who have sought asylum and inspires readers to take action to create a more welcoming Australia. 100% of the proceeds from Seeking Asylum: Our Stories will be reinvested by the ASRC to fund projects that build people’s capacity to tell their story in their own way and provide opportunities to amplify their voices. One area of investment will continue to be the ASRC’s Community Advocacy and Power Program (CAPP). The CAPP training program, offered nationally, provides participants with skills in advocacy, community organising / mobilising, public speaking and effective media engagement.

Author : Amy Murrell Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643632

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Embattled Freedom by Amy Murrell Taylor Pdf

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slave's quest for freedom and full citizenship. The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves' pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war.

Author : Guy S. Goodwin-Gill,Jane McAdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199281305

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The Refugee in International Law by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill,Jane McAdam Pdf

The situation of refugees is one of the most pressing and urgent problems facing the international community and refugee law has grown in recent years to a subject of global importance. In this long-awaited third edition each chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated and every issue, old and new, has received fresh analysis.

Author : Ana Croegaert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793623072

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Bosnian Refugees in Chicago by Ana Croegaert Pdf

Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies studies refugee migration through the experiences of survivors of the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia as they rebuild home, family, and social lives in the wake of their displacement. Ana Croegaert explores post-1970s Yugoslav-era socialism, American neoliberal capitalism, and anti-Muslim geopolitics to examine women’s varied perspectives on their postwar lives in the United States. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Croegaert takes readers into staged performances, coffee rituals, protests, memorials, homes, and non-governmental organizations to shine a light on the pressures women contend with in their efforts to make a living and to narrate their wartime injuries. Ultimately, Croegaert argues that refugee women insist on understanding their wartime losses as simultaneously social and material, a form of personhood she labels “injured life.” At a time of mass displacement and heated political debates concerning refugees, Croegaert provides an engaging portrait of a lively and diverse group of women whose opinions on citizenship and belonging are needed now more than ever.

Author : Bharati Sethi,Sepali Guruge,Richard Csiernik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527565111

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Understanding the Refugee Experience in the Canadian Context by Bharati Sethi,Sepali Guruge,Richard Csiernik Pdf

This volume on the resilience, commitment, and survival of refugees brings together the latest research and insights from 32 authors across multiple disciplines, united in their pursuit of social justice for the economic, social, and political rights of refugees. The book adopts a reflexive and relational stance without compromising the rigour and quality of research to allow the reader to appreciate the shared and distinct immigration and (re)settlement experiences of refugees and their communities in all of their complexity. This book will be a valuable resource to, and a source of reflection for, researchers, educators, students, service providers, and policymakers who are committed to envisioning Canada as a country where all newcomers feel rooted and safe.

Author : T. Alexander Aleinikoff,Leah Zamore
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503611429

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The Arc of Protection by T. Alexander Aleinikoff,Leah Zamore Pdf

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190901547

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The Struggle for Freedom from Fear by Alison Brysk Pdf

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries tends to change as countries develop and liberalize, but not in the ways that we might predict. She shows how liberalizing authoritarian countries and transitional democracies may experience more shifting patterns and greater levels of violence than less developed and democratic countries, due to changes and uncertainties in economic and political structures. Accordingly, Brysk analyzes the experience of semi-liberal, developing countries at the frontiers of globalization--Brazil, India, South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, and Turkey--to map out patterns of gender violence and what can be done to change those patterns. As the book shows, gender violence is not static, nor can it be attributed to culture or individual pathology--rather it varies across a continuum that tracks economic, political, and social change. While a combination of international action, law, public policy, civil society mobilization, and changes in social values work to decrease gender violence, Brysk assesses the potential, limits, and balance of these measures. Brysk shows that a human rights approach is necessary but not sufficient to address gender violence, and that insights from feminist and development approaches are essential.

Author : Calaycay, Lily,Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231006456

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Paving Pathways for Inclusion by Calaycay, Lily,Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,UNESCO Pdf

Author : Edwin D. Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015026716285

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Pathways to Freedom by Edwin D. Hoffman Pdf

Stories of nine historical episodes about ordinary people who have helped secure our present freedom by being willing to fight for causes.

Author : Nina Maadad,I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000521603

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The Education of Arabic Speaking Refugee Children and Young Adults by Nina Maadad,I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan Pdf

Sustained political and socioeconomic crises can potentially deprive generations of young people and adults of their economic and employment prospects, stability, mental health and freedom. The Education of Arabic Speaking Refugee Children and Young Adults provides a comprehensive overview of the situation of Arabic-speaking refugee children and their psychosocial, schooling and employment experiences in three case countries: Australia, Italy and Indonesia. The book considers what education arrangements were put in place for refugee children, how were they supported in schools for physical and psychological needs, how the school environment hindered or assisted their learning experience and the way in which these students were affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The authors provide recommendations for educational practices and employment pathways as informed by the refugee children and young adults themselves, teachers, parents, schools and state officials. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education and refugee and migrant education. It will also be beneficial for educators, teachers and policy-makers.

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808150

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World Report 2018 by Human Rights Watch Pdf

The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.