Refugees -- history

Sanctuary and asylum: a social and political history

by Rabben, Linda

fromCapell family book

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The practice of sanctuary--giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger--may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary …

People forced to flee: history, change and challenge

by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Kelley, Ninette

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People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes -- war, conflict, violence, persecution, natural disasters, and climate change -- are as familiar to readers of the news as to students of the past.?…

People forced to flee: history, change and challenge

by Nations Unies., Haut commissariat pour les réfugiés

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People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes -- war, conflict, persecution, natural disasters and climate change -- are as familiar to readers of the news as to students of the past. It is 70 ye…

People forced to flee: history, change and challenge

by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Kelley, Ninette

0 Type: Book

"People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes -- war, conflict, persecution, natural disasters and climate change -- are as familiar to readers of the news as to students of the past. It is 70 y…

People forced to flee: history, change and challenge

by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Kelley, Ninette

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This volume is an authoritative contribution to scholarly and policy debates surrounding forced displacement, as well as to practice.

Guests and aliens

by Sassen, Saskia

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A comprehensive analysis of the modern-day movement of refugees reveals the normalcy of cross-border migration in search of work and the contemporary developments, such as the mass dislocations during World War II, that have helped shaped the refugee concept at the end of the ce…

Barbed-wire imperialism: Britain's empire of camps, 1876-1903

by Forth, Aidan

fromBerkeley series in British studies

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Introduction : Britain's empire of camps -- Concentrating the "dangerous classes" : the cultural and material foundations of British camps -- "Barbed wire deterrents" : detention and relief at Indian famine campus, 1876-1901 -- "A source of horror and dread" : plague camps in In…

Letting it go

by Katin, Miriam

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A Holocaust survivor and mother, Katin's world is turned upside down by the news that her adult son is moving to Berlin, a city she's villainized for the past forty years. As she struggles to accept her son's decision, she visits the city twice, first to see her son and then to …