Through All The Displacements

Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593189733

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“Hypnotic.” – New York Times “Cinematic.” – USA Today "I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A full-throttle page turner."– Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna—the world’s first category 6 hurricane—upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall, it triggers a descent of another sort. Their home destroyed, two of its members missing, and finances abruptly cut off, the family finds everything they assumed about their lives now up for grabs. Swept into a mass rush of evacuees from across the American South, they are transported hundreds of miles to a FEMA megashelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group of vulnerable children, and a dedicated relief worker trying to keep the peace. Will “normal” ever return? A suspenseful read plotted on a vast national tapestry, The Displacements thrillingly explores what happens when privilege is lost and resilience is tested in a swiftly changing world.

Author : Edgar Silex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UIUC:30112004838691

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The works of an Indian poet from Texas. In Grandfather Buffalo, he writes: "I saw them staring at him / in the mall I was small / holding his granite hand / his skin was bronzed / straight blue-black hair / his eyes and nose slightly curved / towards earth. I knew what was in their stares / an old Indian coin / a fat-lipped feathered caricature / a Cleveland team name ..."

Author : Scott Leckie,Chris Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317417101

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Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement by Scott Leckie,Chris Huggins Pdf

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena. Following several years of preparatory work across the globe, legal scholars, judges, UN officials and climate change experts from 11 countries came together to finalise a new normative framework aiming to strengthen the right of climate-displaced persons, households and communities. This resulted in the approval of the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement within States in August 2013. This book provides detailed explanations and interpretations of the Peninsula Principles and includes in-depth discussion of the legal, policy and programmatic efforts needed to uphold the standards and norms embedded in the Principles. The book provides policy-makers with the conceptual understanding necessary to ensure that national-level policies are in place to respond to the climate displacement challenge, as well as a firm sense of the programme-level approaches that can be taken to anticipate, reduce and manage climate displacement. It also provides students and policy advocates with the necessary information to debate and critique responses to climate displacement at different levels. Drawing together key thinkers in the field, this volume will be of great relevance to scholars, lawyers, legal advisors and policy-makers with an interest in climate change, environmental policy, disaster management and human rights law and policy.

Author : Lucy Knisley
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606998106

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In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book’s watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather’s WWII memoir, which is excerpted. Readers will identify with Knisley’s frustration, her fears, her compassion, and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents’ frailty.

Author : Daniel Coleman,Erin Goheen Glanville,Wafaa Hasan,Agnes Kramer-Hamstra
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780888646071

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Countering Displacements by Daniel Coleman,Erin Goheen Glanville,Wafaa Hasan,Agnes Kramer-Hamstra Pdf

The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples, thereby emphasizing capacity and resilience. Throughout their chapters, they show how cultural activities-from public performance to filmmaking to community arts-recur as significant ways in which people counter the powers of displacement. This book is an indispensable resource for displaced peoples everywhere and the policy makers, social scientists, and others who work in concert with them. Contributors: Catherine Graham, Subhasri Ghosh, Jon Gordon, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Agnes Kramer-Hamstra, Mazen Masri, Jean McDonald, and Pavithra Narayanan.

Author : Peter F. Orazem,Milan Vodopivec,Ruth Wu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Employees
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Worker Displacement During the Transition by Peter F. Orazem,Milan Vodopivec,Ruth Wu Pdf

"The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in North America in the 1980s. A simple theoretical model suggests that factors which raise the probability of layoff should also increase the probability of a quit, predictions that are borne out in data. Probability of both layoffs and quits fell with worker tenure, firm profitability and expected severance costs. Individuals facing a higher probability of displacement accepted slower wage growth than otherwise comparable workers. The incentives to avoid displacement were strong -- workers that actually were displaced faced a slow process of transiting out of unemployment with only one-third finding reemployment. Correcting for selection, real wage losses for displaced workers are comparable to those reported for displaced workers in North America"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.

Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000327519

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Urban Displacements by Susanne Soederberg Pdf

With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy analysis of low-income rental housing and social dislocations, combining both theoretical advancements and detailed empirical studies, centering on Berlin, Dublin and Vienna. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low-rent housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labour power whilst being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance, including landlords, employers and inter-scalar state practices, have served to reproduce urban displacements and obfuscate their gendered, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side, and capital accumulation on the other. Building on Soederberg’s previous book Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be useful to academics and students in political science, sociology, geography, urban studies, labour studies, European studies and gender studies.

Author : Howard Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317074076

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Protracted Displacement in Asia by Howard Adelman Pdf

In a protracted displacement situation, refugees are sequestered in camps without right of mobility or employment; their lives remain on hold and stagnate in a state of limbo for a long period. This book reviews the situation and results of research and policies that have left refugees as a forgotten group in protracted situations. The work features case studies by experts who conducted field work examining long-term protracted refugee situations in Nepal, Thailand and Bangladesh, the protracted internally displaced (IDP) situation in Sri Lanka, and the refugee and IDP situation in Afghanistan. Also discussed is an emerging protracted refugee and IDP problem in Iraq. The volume concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and the applications for policy, and incorporates a valuable bibliography detailing research in this hugely important area. This is a critical resource for academics and policy makers concerned with migration and governance issues.

Author : Harriet Prescott Spofford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338096548

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The Ray of Displacement and other stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford Pdf

"The Ray of Displacement and other Stories" is an early twentieth-century science fiction inspired by H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man." The protagonist of the story, a scientist in physics, develops a method to transform matter into energy and starts a row of incredible adventures.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015014594249

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CDBG and UDAG Displacement by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Pdf

Author : Niall Gilmartin,Brendan Ciarán Browne
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802079128

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Refugees and Forced Displacement in Northern Ireland’s Troubles by Niall Gilmartin,Brendan Ciarán Browne Pdf

Though forced displacement constituted a central and pervasive feature of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ effecting tens of thousands of citizens, remarkably it has been afforded little more than a footnote or fleeting reference in most accounts of the conflict. This book seeks to ‘end the silence’ surrounding this neglected and ubiquitous aspect of the conflict. Based on 88 in-depth qualitative interviews with victims and survivors, and extensive secondary research, this fascinating study provides the first comprehensive examination of forced displacement in Northern Ireland. The analysis presented captures the unique perspectives of those forcibly uprooted over the course of the 30-year conflict and places on historical record their stories and experiences. This thought-provoking work challenges and broadens prevailing understandings of conflict-related violence, harm, and loss in Northern Ireland to demonstrate the centrality of forced movement, territory, and demographics to the roots and subsequent trajectory of the Troubles. In doing so, it shows that to fully understand the eruption and outplaying of the Troubles and its elusive peace, engagement with and understanding of the legacy of forced displacement is crucial.

Author : E. Wayne Nafziger,Frances Stewart,Raimo Väyrynen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191589133

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War, Hunger, and Displacement: by E. Wayne Nafziger,Frances Stewart,Raimo Väyrynen Pdf

Since the end of the cold war, the number of civil wars in developing countries has escalated to the point where they are the most significant source of human suffering in the world today. Although there are many political analyses of these emergencies, this two-volume work is the first comprehensive study of the economic, social, and political roots of humanitarian emergencies, identifying early measures to prevent such disasters. Nafziger, Stewart, and V--auml--;yrynen draw on a wide range of specialists on the political economy of war and on major conflicts to show the causes of conflict. The first volume provides a general overview of the nature and causes of the emergencies, including economic, political, and environmental factors. The second volume provides detailed case studies of thirteen conflicts (including Rwanda, Burundi, the Congo, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus) that originated in the weakness of the state or where economic factors predominate. The volumes emphasize the significance of protracted economic stagnation and decline, high and increasing inequality, government exclusion of distinct social groups, state failure and predatory rule. They debunk beliefs recurrent in the literature that emergencies are the result of deteriorating environmental conditions, structural adjustment, and deep-seated ethnic animosity. By analysing the causes and prevention of war and humanitarian emergencies in developing countries, this work outlines a less costly alternative to the present strategy of the world community of spending millions of dollars annually to provide mediation, relief, and rehabilitation after the conflict occurs.

Author : Khaled Hassine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108486484

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Handling Climate Displacement by Khaled Hassine Pdf

A practical and empathetic guide to managing the crisis of climate displacement, and pre-empting a mass loss of human rights.

Author : Sarah A. Lichtman,Jilly Traganou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000962840

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Design, Displacement, Migration by Sarah A. Lichtman,Jilly Traganou Pdf

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement. The contributors foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and consider design’s role in the empire, the state, and various colonizing regimes in controlling the mass movement of people, things, and ideas across borders, as well as in social acts that resist forced mobility and immobility, or enact new possibilities. By consciously surfacing echoes, rhymes, and dissonances among varied histories, this volume highlights local specificity while also accounting for the vectors of displacement and design across borders and histories. Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories shows displacement to be a lens for understanding space and materiality and vice versa, particularly within the context of modernity and colonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies, architectural history, art history, urban studies, and migration studies.

Author : Robert McLeman,François Gemenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317272243

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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration by Robert McLeman,François Gemenne Pdf

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted. So far, such a product does not exist. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration provides a state-of-the-science review of research on how environmental variability and change influence current and future global migration patterns and, in some instances, trigger large-scale population displacements. Drawing together contributions from leading researchers in the field, this compendium will become a go-to guide for established and newly interested scholars, for government and policymaking entities, and for students and their instructors. It explains theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years; describes their origins and connections to broader topics including migration research, development studies, and international public policy and law; and highlights emerging areas where new and/or additional research and reflection are warranted. The structure and the nature of the book allow the reader to quickly find a concise review relevant to conducting research or developing policy on particular topics, and to obtain a broad, reliable survey of what is presently known about the subject.