Terms Of Refuge

Author : Court Robinson
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1856496104

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Terms of Refuge by Court Robinson Pdf

For half a century (ever since the Japanese invasion of 1942), much of Southeast Asia has been racked by war. In the last 20 years alone, some three million people fled their homes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This book is their story. It is also the story of the international community's response. Spearheading this was the United Nations agency responsible, UNHCR. It pioneered innovations like the Orderly Departure Programme, anti-piracy and rescue-at-sea efforts, and later on, ambitious reintegration projects for returnees. Today the camps in Southeast Asia are closed. Half a million people have returned home. Over two million have started new lives in the United States, Canada, Australia and France. This compelling book is the history of this modern exodus. It also takes stock and poses important questions. How did the flight of refugees and international response evolve? How do we measure the achievements and the failures of that international effort? What has been the legacy in Asia itself? And what lessons can be drawn for use in other refugee situations around the world?

Author : Court Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Refugees
ISBN : OCLC:1245808446

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Terms of Refuge by Court Robinson Pdf

Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545880879

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Refugee by Alan Gratz Pdf

The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.

Author : Tsim D. Schneider
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816542536

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The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse by Tsim D. Schneider Pdf

"As an Indigenous scholar researching the history and archaeology of his own tribe, Tsim D. Schneider provides a unique and timely contribution to the growing field of Indigenous archaeology and offers a new perspective on the primary role and relevance of Indigenous places and homelands in the study of colonial encounters"--

Author : Dina Nayeri
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646220212

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The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri Pdf

A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” —The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the ‘feared swarms’ . . . Her family’s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart–rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own . . . This is a memoir laced with stimulus and plenty of heart at a time when the latter has grown elusive.” —Star–Tribune (Minneapolis) Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel–turned–refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Nayeri confronts notions like “the swarm,” and, on the other hand, “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis. “A writer who confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees

Author : Georgina Ramsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351801478

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Impossible Refuge by Georgina Ramsay Pdf

Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative analysis of global humanitarian systems and the experiences of refugees whose lives are interwoven with them. The book problematises the solutions that are currently in place to resolve the displacement of refugees, considering that since displacement cannot be reduced to a politico-legal problem but is an experience that resonates at an existential level, it cannot be assumed that politico-legal solutions to displacement automatically resolve what is, fundamentally, an existential state of being. Impossible Refuge therefore offers a new theoretical foundation through which to think about the experiences of refugees, as well as the systems in place to manage and resolve their displacement. The book argues that the refuge provided to refugees through international humanitarian systems is conditional: requiring that they conform to lifestyles that benefit the hegemonic future horizons of the societies that host and receive them. Impossible Refuge calls for new ways of approaching displacement that go beyond the exceptionality of refugee experience, to consider instead how the contestation and control of possible futures makes displacement a general condition of our time. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration and refugees, humanitarianism and violence, sovereignty and citizenship, cosmology and temporality, and African studies, broadly.

Author : Paul Collier,Alexander Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190659165

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Refuge by Paul Collier,Alexander Betts Pdf

Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. Western countries deliver food, clothing, and shelter to refugee camps, but these sites, usually located in remote border locations, can make things worse. The numbers are stark: the average length of stay in a refugee camp worldwide is 17 years. Into this situation comes the Syria crisis, which has dislocated countless families, bringing them to face an impossible choice: huddle in dangerous urban desolation, rot in dilapidated camps, or flee across the Mediterranean to increasingly unwelcoming governments. Refuge seeks to restore moral purpose and clarity to refugee policy. Rather than assuming indefinite dependency, Collier-author of The Bottom Billion-and his Oxford colleague Betts propose a humanitarian approach integrated with a new economic agenda that begins with jobs, restores autonomy, and rebuilds people's ability to help themselves and their societies. Timely and urgent, the book goes beyond decrying scenes of desperation to declare what so many people, policymakers and public alike, are anxious to hear: that a long-term solution really is within reach.

Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0759104808

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Remapping Asian American History by Sucheng Chan Pdf

Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. Collectively, the essays in this volume challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : UCR:31210025006121

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Refuge Water Supply Long-term Water Supply Agreements by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Mitchell
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books (R)
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781541500501

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Without Refuge by Jane Mitchell Pdf

Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.

Author : Kate Ogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316519738

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Protection from Refuge by Kate Ogg Pdf

The first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible 'refuge'.

Author : Anne Booth
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316362238

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Refuge by Anne Booth Pdf

This timely gift book offers a moving new perspective on the nativity story-evoking the struggle of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus as refugees traveling in a strange land, seeking the protection and kindness of strangers. Everyone may already know the story of how Jesus was humbly born in a manger, but Refuge is a lyrical depiction of what came next: the new family's travels through the desert, fleeing Herod's soldiers in order to find a safe place to welcome their son into the world. A poetic and refreshing look at the classic Christmas story that's never been more relevant, Refuge asks readers to consider the modern day implications of being forced to flee your home country.

Author : Cathryn Costello,Michelle Foster,Jane McAdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198848639

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The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law by Cathryn Costello,Michelle Foster,Jane McAdam Pdf

This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Wildlife conservation
ISBN : PURD:32754067400808

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National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources Pdf

Author : Victorya Rouse
Publisher : Zest Books ™
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728411743

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Finding Refuge by Victorya Rouse Pdf

When you read about war in your history book or hear about it in the news, do you ever wonder what happens to the families and children in the places experiencing war? Many families in these situations decide that they must leave their homes to stay alive. What happens to them? According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 70.8 million people around the world have been forced to leave their homes because of war or persecution as of 2019. Over fifty percent of these people are under the age of eighteen. English teacher Victorya Rouse has assembled a collection of real-world experiences of teen refugees from around the world. Learn where these young people came from, why they left, and how they arrived in the United States. Read about their struggles to adapt to a new language, culture, and high school experiences, along with updates about how they are doing now and what they hope their futures will look like. As immigration has catapulted into the current discourse, this poignant collection emphasizes the United States' rich tradition of welcoming people from all over the world.