Tracing Asylum Journeys

Author : Ugur Yildiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429775574

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Tracing Asylum Journeys by Ugur Yildiz Pdf

This book explores the asylum journey of non-European asylum applicants who seek asylum in Turkey before resettling in Canada with the aid of the Canadian government’s assisted resettlement programme. Based on ethnographic research among Syrian, Afghan, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Iraqi, Iranian, Somali, Sudanese and Congolese nationals it considers the interactions of asylum seekers with both UNHCR’s refugee status determination and Canada’s refugee resettlement programme. With attention to the practices of migrants, the author shows how the asylum journey contains both mobility and stasis and constitutes a micro-political image of the fluidity and relativity of attributed identities and labels on the part of state migration systems. A multi-sited ethnography that shows how the migration journey is linked to the production and reproduction of knowledge, as well as the diffusion of produced knowledge among past, present, and future asylum seekers who form trans-local social networks in the course of their route, in Turkey, and in Canada. Tracing Asylum Journeys will appeal to sociologists and political scientists with interests in migration and transnational studies, and refugee and asylum settlement.

Author : Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353176

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Refuge in a Moving World by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Pdf

Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings from around the world. Through interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies – including participatory research, poetic and spatial interventions, ethnography, theatre, discourse analysis and visual methods – the volume documents the complexities of refugees’ and migrants’ journeys. This includes a particular focus on how people inhabit and negotiate everyday life in cities, towns, camps and informal settlements across the Middle East and North Africa, Southern and Eastern Africa, and Europe.

Author : Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787353214

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Refuge in a Moving World by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Pdf

Author : International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9290687215

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Fatal Journeys, Identification and Tracing of Dead and Missing Migrants by International Organization for Migration Pdf

The second volume in IOM's series on migrant deaths, Fatal Journeys has two main objectives. First, it provides an update of global trends in migrant fatalities since 2014. Data on the number and profile of dead and missing migrants are presented for different regions of the world, drawing upon the data collected through IOM's Missing Migrants Project. Second, the report examines the challenges facing families and authorities seeking to identify and trace missing migrants. The study compares practices in different parts of the world, and identifies a number of innovative measures that could potentially be replicated elsewhere.

Author : Mary Crock,Laura Smith-Khan,Ron McCallum,Ben Saul
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786435446

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The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities by Mary Crock,Laura Smith-Khan,Ron McCallum,Ben Saul Pdf

This ground-breaking book focuses on the ‘forgotten refugees’, detailing people with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disaster or human conflict. The authors explore the intersection between one of the oldest international human rights treaties, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with one of the newest: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Drawing on fieldwork in six countries hosting refugees in a variety of contexts – Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uganda, Jordan and Turkey – the book examines how the CRPD is (or should) be changing the way that governments and aid agencies engage with and accommodate persons with disabilities in situations of displacement. The timeliness of the book is underscored by the adoption in mid-2016 of the UN Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action adopted at the World Humanitarian Summit.

Author : Alison Mountz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452960104

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The Death of Asylum by Alison Mountz Pdf

Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations Remote detention centers confine tens of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants around the world, operating in a legal gray area that hides terrible human rights abuses from the international community. Built to temporarily house eight hundred migrants in transit, the immigrant “reception center” on the Italian island of Lampedusa has held thousands of North African refugees under inhumane conditions for weeks on end. Australia’s use of Christmas Island as a detention center for asylum seekers has enabled successive governments to imprison migrants from Asia and Africa, including the Sudanese human rights activist Abdul Aziz Muhamat, held there for five years. In The Death of Asylum, Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote sites used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. Through unprecedented access to offshore detention centers and immigrant-processing facilities, Mountz illustrates how authorities in the United States, the European Union, and Australia have created a new and shadowy geopolitical formation allowing them to externalize their borders to distant islands where harsh treatment and deadly force deprive migrants of basic human rights. Mountz details how states use the geographic inaccessibility of places like Christmas Island, almost a thousand miles off the Australian mainland, to isolate asylum seekers far from the scrutiny of humanitarian NGOs, human rights groups, journalists, and their own citizens. By focusing on borderlands and spaces of transit between regions, The Death of Asylum shows how remote detention centers effectively curtail the basic human right to seek asylum, forcing refugees to take more dangerous risks to escape war, famine, and oppression.

Author : Patrick Kingsley
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783351077

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The New Odyssey by Patrick Kingsley Pdf

Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley travelled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Europe. This is Kingsley's unparalleled account of who these voyagers are. It's about why they keep coming, and how they do it. It's about the smugglers who help them on their way, and the coastguards who rescue them at the other end. The volunteers that feed them, the hoteliers that house them, and the border guards trying to keep them out. And the politicians looking the other way. The New Odyssey is a work of original, bold reporting written with a perfect mix of compassion and authority by the journalist who knows the subject better than any other.

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Refugees
ISBN : 9780099492870

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Human Cargo by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

A remarkable oral testament. Caroline Moorehead has visited war zones, camps and prisons from Guinea and Afghanistan to Texas and Italy. She has interviewed emigration officials and members of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva while investigating the fates of the 17 million people currently displaced from their homes. How can society cope with this diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down? The difficult questions are asked, the horrible issues faced. But, above all, HUMAN CARGO celebrates the courage and will to survive shown by ordinary human beings.

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446412947

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Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks Pdf

'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. 'Shocking and enlightening...touching and affecting' Daily Mail

Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141911014

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Edge of the Orison by Iain Sinclair Pdf

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ... In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare), the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - as well as a host of literary ghosts, both visionary and romantic - Sinclair's quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness, sanity and the nature of the poet's muse. 'Brilliant . . . amusing, alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent'Robert Macfarlane, Times Literary Supplement 'A sensitive,beautifully rendered portrait . . . a feast, a riddle, a slowly unravelling conundrum . . . a love-letter to British Romanticism'Independent 'Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful novels and psychogeographies, pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain'J. G. Ballard, Observer Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319717524

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Solidarity Mobilizations in the ‘Refugee Crisis’ by Donatella della Porta Pdf

This edited collection introduces conceptual innovations that critically engage with understanding refugee movements as part of the broader category of ‘poor people’s movements’. The empirical focus of the work lies on the protest events related to the so-called ‘long summer of migration’ of 2015. It traces the route followed by the migrants from the places of first arrival to the places of passage and on to the places of destination. Through qualitative and quantitative data, the authors map, within a cross-national comparative perspective, the wide set of actions and initiatives that are being created in solidarity with refugees who have made their journey seeking asylum to the European Union, either travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or through South Eastern Europe. It explores these cases from the perspective of social movement studies alongside critical studies on migration and citizenship.

Author : William Walters,Charles Heller,Lorenzo Pezzani
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021599

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Viapolitics by William Walters,Charles Heller,Lorenzo Pezzani Pdf

Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics of migration and bordering across a range of sites. They show how these elements constitute a key site of knowledge and struggle in migratory processes and offer a privileged vantage point from which to interrogate practices of mobility and systems of control in their deeper histories and wider geographic connections. This transdisciplinary group of scholars explores a set of empirically rich and diverse cases: from the Spanish and European authorities' attempts to control migrants' entire trajectories to infrastructures of escort of Indonesian labor migrants; from deportation train cars in the 1920s United States to contemporary stowaways at sea; from illegalized migrants walking across treacherous Alpine mountain passes to aerial geographies of deportation. Throughout, Viapolitics interrogates anew the phenomenon called “migration,” questioning how different forms of contentious mobility are experienced, policed, and contested. Contributors. Ethan Blue, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Julie Y. Chu, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Glenda Garelli, Charles Heller, Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek, Clara Lecadet, Johan Lindquist, Renisa Mawani, Lorenzo Pezzani, Ranabir Samaddar, Amaha Senu, Martina Tazzioli, William Walters

Author : Stan Hazell
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0856835188

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Long Way from Adi Ghehad by Stan Hazell Pdf

With immigration and asylum seekers high on the agenda of governments throughout Europe, the life story of Dr Teame Mebrahtu is a timely reminder of a positive side of what has become a contentious and potentially divisive issue. It is a truly remarkable and inspiring story. Dr Mebrahtu, born in the village of Adi Ghehad in the Eritrean Highlands, was a leading teacher trainer in his country but was forced to leave when his life was in danger in the 1970s. An acknowledged expert on multicultural education and the problems of refugees, he has provided advice and valuable insights from his own experience during the troubled history of Eritrea and whilst establishing a new life in Britain.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004568

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Reporting on migrants and refugees by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Vinh Nguyen,Thy Phu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487508647

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Refugee States by Vinh Nguyen,Thy Phu Pdf

Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.