Biliki was one of approximately 4,000 dependent East Timorese children who were transferred to Indonesia during the occupation of East Timor by Indonesia between 1975 and 1999. Many, like Biliki, were taken by soldiers to be adopted, others were sent to institutions in Indonesia…
Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even the most optimistic projections envisage a crisis of migration that will dwarf any we have seen…
"Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even the most optimistic projections envisage a crisis of migration that will dwarf any we have see…
Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care practitioners, trauma researchers, sociologists and specialists in public policy …
Preface / by Vamik Volkan -- Preface / by Ivan Krastev -- Refugees in public policy and social representation -- International protections and psycho-social support services / Saime Ozcurumez -- Political traumatization and trauma-discourse / Marcus Kumpfmüller -- Social trauma …
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the ""refugee cycle""--Both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s…
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her…
"Nobel Peace Prize winer Malala Yousafzai's experiences visiting refugee camps led her to reconsider her own displacement--first as an internally displaced person in Pakistan, and then as an activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are …
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally D…