"Bringing to light the origins of an important national cinema, this book examines Palestinian filmmaking during the long 1970s, and how it sustained a revolution and continues to inspire in a new century"--
"This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international refugee and forced migration situation. In doing so, it rethinks the human capacity to care about the suffering of distant others. A…
"The essays selected and reproduced in this volume explore how international refugee law is dynamic and constantly evolving. From an instrument designed to protect mostly those civilians fleeing the worse excesses of World War II, the 1951 Refugee Convention has developed into a…
This work contains essays of central importance in the development of international law in relation to refugees. Lambert provides an informative introduction which analyses the context of the essays and comments on their significance within international refugee law.
Refugee imaginaries: research across the humanities
Refugee imaginaries: research across the humanities
The 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-go…
A man named Jacques Austerlitz relates to a friend the story of his adult life over a period of thirty years. In searching for his identity, he recovers childhood memories and learns that he arrived in England on a refugee train in 1939.
