The Refugee

Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : James Athearn Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015063920360

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The Refugee by James Athearn Jones Pdf

Author : Harry Castlemon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Battles
ISBN : NYPL:33433082302765

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Marcy, the Refugee by Harry Castlemon Pdf

Author : María Cristina García
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190655327

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The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America by María Cristina García Pdf

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries. In the post-Cold War period, a wider range of geopolitical and domestic interests influence which populations policymakers prioritize for admission. The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America examines the actors and interests that have shaped refugee and asylum policy since 1989. Policymakers are now considering a wider range of populations as potentially eligible for protection: victims of civil unrest, genocide, trafficking, environmental upheaval, and gender-based discrimination, among others. Many of those granted protected status since 1989 would never have been considered for admission during the Cold War. Among the challenges of the post-Cold War era are the growing number of asylum seekers who have petitioned for protection at a port of entry and are backlogging the immigration courts. Concerns over national security have also resulted in deterrence policies that have raised important questions about the rights of refugees and the duties of nations. María Cristina García evaluates the challenges of reconciling international humanitarian obligations with domestic concerns for national security.

Author : Bernard Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521088151

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The Refugee Question in Mid-Victorian Politics by Bernard Porter Pdf

The British have long boasted of their tradition of asylum for political refugees, but never with more justification than in the nineteenth century, when the legal toleration which was accorded them in Britain was nearly absolute. Not only were fugitives of all political complexions allowed into Britain, but there was for most of the century no possible way - no law on the statute book - by which they could be kept out. This, and the licence which was allowed them to agitate and conspire were greatly resented by the governments from which they had fled, and regretted only a little less by many British ministers, who sometimes found it necessary to take measures against them which were of dubious constitutional legality, and who wished, and once tried, to amend the law in order to enable them to do more. That effort, arising from Orsini's bomb plot in January 1858, resulted in the fall of the government which proposed it, and the loss by its successor of a famous state prosecution: a failure which, as this book argues, was crucial for the maintenance of the practice of toleration thereafter.

Author : Julia Metzger-Traber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783658223656

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If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee by Julia Metzger-Traber Pdf

This book posits that the ‘refugee crisis’ may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual ‘Self’ shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion. Metzger-Traber creatively re-conceives political belonging by perceiving the interconnection of each ‘Self’ through its most immediate home – the breathing body. On an experimental literary journey through her own past and that of Germany, she puts political philosophy in conversation with somatic and spiritual insight to expand notions of ‘Self’ and 'Home'. Then she asks: What ethical imperatives arise? What kinds of homes and homelands would we create if we no longer thought we ended at our skin?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045458010

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Refugee assistance by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law Pdf

Author : Cox Emma Cox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474443227

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Refugee Imaginaries by Cox Emma Cox Pdf

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politicsThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.

Author : Susan Kneebone,Dallal Stevens,Loretta Baldassar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135046903

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Refugee Protection and the Role of Law by Susan Kneebone,Dallal Stevens,Loretta Baldassar Pdf

Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee. This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary ‘refugeehood’: protection and identity. It analyses how the issue of refugee identity is shaped by and responds to the legal regime of refugee protection in contemporary times. The book investigates the premise that there is a narrowing of protection space in many countries and many highly visible incidents of refoulement. It argues that ‘Protection’, which is a core focus of the Refugee Convention, appears to be under threat, as there are many gaps and inconsistencies in practice. Contributors to the volume, who include Erika Feller, Elspeth Guild, Hélène Lambert and Roger Zetter, look at the relevant issues from the perspective of a number of different disciplines including law, politics, sociology, and anthropology. The chapters examine the link between identity and protection as a basis for understanding how the Refugee Convention has been and is being applied in policy and practice. The situation in a number of jurisdictions and regions in Europe, North America, South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East is explored in order to ask the question does jurisprudence under the Refugee Convention need better coordination and how successful is oversight of the Convention?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political refugees
ISBN : UOM:39015083098338

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Refugee act of 1979 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Refugee Resettlement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Refugees
ISBN : UCBK:C049290960

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Refugee Resettlement Program by United States. Office of Refugee Resettlement Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : HARVARD:32044059294488

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Indochina Evacuation and Refugee Problems by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees Pdf

Author : Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Gil Loescher,Katy Long,Nando Sigona
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191645877

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The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Gil Loescher,Katy Long,Nando Sigona Pdf

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses both rigorous academic research which may or may not ultimately inform policy and practice, as well as action-research focused on advocating in favour of refugees' needs and rights. This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world. The 52 state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in universities, research centres, think tanks, NGOs and international organizations, provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the key intellectual, political, social and institutional challenges arising from mass displacement in the world today. The chapters vividly illustrate the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.

Author : Professor Laura Westra,Professor Satvinder S Juss,Professor Tullio Scovazzi
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472457783

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Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum by Professor Laura Westra,Professor Satvinder S Juss,Professor Tullio Scovazzi Pdf

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they continue to face. The authors explore the causality that generates displacement, discuss how migrants are received and the problems they face on arrival, and conclude by confronting the fate and status of asylum seekers after arrival. The authors propose ways of approaching the situation beyond the present language and the limited interpretations of the Convention on the Status of Refugees.

Author : Florence E. McCarthy,Margaret H. Vickers
Publisher : IAP
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617358425

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Refugee and Immigrant Students by Florence E. McCarthy,Margaret H. Vickers Pdf

The focus of this book is on educational equity issues affecting immigrants and refugees around the world. Chapters highlight educational approaches that build from experiential knowledge, draw upon multiple languages, consider group identity, grapple with the complexities of inclusion, address family concerns, promote parental involvement, involve liaison with community agencies, and view cultural differences as educational strengths. While the book does not shy away from exploring the more challenging aspects of the refugee and immigrant experience, it avoids dwelling on victimology and rejects applying a deficit framework. Rather it offers hope, emphasizing the potential strengths of refugees, including their cultural capital and survival skills. The authors also make cogent suggestions for structural, pedagogical, and conceptual reform, with targets ranging from individual teachers to educational systems to social, economic, political, and cultural contexts.