Women Refugee Voices From Asia And Africa

Author : ActionAid Association
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000430776

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Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa by ActionAid Association Pdf

This book presents experiences of women refugees in a variety of contexts across Asia and Africa and builds a framework to ensure robust and effective mechanisms to safeguard refugees’ rights. It highlights the structural challenges that women who are forcibly displaced face and the inadequacies of the response of governments and other stakeholders, irrespective of the country of origin, ethnicity, and religion of the refugee community. This volume: ● Focuses on contemporary issues such as the Rohingya and the Syrian crisis. ● Brings first-person accounts of women refugees from Asia and Africa. ● Draws on an interdisciplinary approach to analyse a host of issues, including public policy, cultural norms, and economics of forced migration. Bringing together first-hand accounts from women refugees and interventions by activists, academics, journalists, filmmakers, humanitarian workers, and international law experts, this book will be a must read for scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies, development studies, sociology and social anthropology, and politics and public policy. It will be of special interest to NGOs, policymakers, and think tanks.

Author : John Tenhula
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003901852

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Voices from Southeast Asia by John Tenhula Pdf

Personal refugee experiences of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians in the United States.

Author : Janet Henshall Momsen,Vivian Kinnaird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1390784496

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Different places, different voices by Janet Henshall Momsen,Vivian Kinnaird Pdf

Author : Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed,Nazilla Khanlou,Helene Moussa
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857450263

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Not Born a Refugee Woman by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed,Nazilla Khanlou,Helene Moussa Pdf

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective of refugee women. This collection brings together scholar_practitioners from across a wide range of disciplines. The authors emphasize refugee women’s agency, resilience, and creativity, in the continuum of domestic, civil, and transnational violence and conflicts, whether in flight or in resettlement, during their uprooted journey and beyond. Through the analysis of local examples and international case studies, the authors critically examine gendered and interrelated factors such as location, humanitarian aid, race, cultural norms, and current psycho-social research that affect the identity and well being of refugee women. This volume is destined to a wide audience of scholars, students, policy makers, advocates, and service providers interested in new developments and critical practices in domains related to gender and forced migrations.

Author : Pearlie McNeill,Meg Coulson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Refugees
ISBN : 0646219391

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Women's Voices by Pearlie McNeill,Meg Coulson Pdf

Author : Shirley Hune,Gail M. Nomura
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479821105

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Our Voices, Our Histories by Shirley Hune,Gail M. Nomura Pdf

An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond. This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. Our Voices, Our Histories showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women’s and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories.

Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520206347

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The Suitcase by Julie Mertus Pdf

The stories of the refugees from the war in Bosnia.

Author : Africa
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Refugee camps
ISBN : 0745399681

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Voices from the 'Jungle' by Africa Pdf

Often called the Calais Jungle, the refugee camp in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty, and violence that characterizes the lives of many refugees in Europe today. Migrants from ravaged countries, such as Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Eritrea, arrive by the hundreds every day hoping for sanctuary from their war-torn homelands and a chance to settle in Europe. Going beyond superficial media reports, Voices from the "Jungle" gives voice to the unique individuals living in the camp--people who have made the difficult journey from devastated countries simply looking for peace. In this moving collection of individual testimonies, Calais refugees speak directly in powerful and vivid stories, offering their memories up with stunning honesty. They tell of their childhood dreams and struggles for education; the genocides, wars, and persecution that drove them from home; the simultaneous terror and strength that filled their extraordinary journeys; the realities of living in the Calais refugee camp; and their deepest hopes for the future. Through their stories, these refugees paint a picture of a different kind of Jungle--a powerful sense of community that has grown despite evictions and attacks and a solidarity that crosses national and religious boundaries. Interspersed with photos taken by the camp's inhabitants, taught by award-winning photographers Gideon Mendel and Crispin Hughes, original artwork by inhabitants, and powerful poems, Voices from the "Jungle" must be read by anyone seeking to understand the human consequences of our current world crisis.

Author : Nyemba, Florence,Chitiyo, Rufaro
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799846659

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Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory by Nyemba, Florence,Chitiyo, Rufaro Pdf

Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today’s world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized, with women increasingly moving as independent or single migrants rather than as the wives, mothers, or daughters of male migrants. Yet, in literature on migration, the voices of women are still silent. This creates an urgent need to advance academic research on female international migration by examining women as independent migrants. Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory comprehensively documents the experiences of immigrant women across the globe and the important theories that define their experiences. The chapters give firsthand accounts of women speaking about their own experiences on migration and topics associated with women and migration. This book aims to give women their own voice and to stand apart from previous literature in which male relatives spoke on behalf of immigrant women to tell their stories for them. While highlighting topics on women in migration including feminism, gendered social roles, first-person narratives, and the female identity, this book is ideally for professionals in social science disciplines as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students wanting to expand their knowledge on women and migration, gender violence, and women empowerment.

Author : Susan Forbes Martin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739105892

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Refugee Women by Susan Forbes Martin Pdf

This new and revised edition includes new material on the legal issues and policies developed to protect displaced women, and addresses the increasingly recognised problem of internally displaced persons, focusing on the unique hardships for women who are forced from their homes.

Author : Emma Bainbridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317997269

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Connecting Cultures by Emma Bainbridge Pdf

This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble the living stream' today. Several of the essays focus on the continuing reverberations of political and cultural conflicts in post-Apartheid Southern Africa, including the presence in Britain of Zimbabwean asylum seekers. Other authors discuss the ways in which Indian culture has transformed novelistic and cinematic forms. A third group of essays examines the attempts of West Indian women writers to reclaim their territory and describe it in their own terms. The collection as a whole is framed by essays which deal with discourses of 'terror' and 'terrorism' and how we translate and read them in the wake of 9/11. This book was previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Amrit Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988832012

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Finding a Voice by Amrit Wilson Pdf

First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter by young South Asian women.

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 3030280985

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola Pdf

This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Author : Dina Nayeri
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Bharati Sethi,Sepali Guruge,Richard Csiernik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.