What was the relationship between the Alps and the Resistance during the Italian Social Republic? This book explores the function of the Alps as a center of battles, violence, and opposition to fascism, as well as the cradle of political debate destined to forge modern Italian a…
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Immigration is an issue central to British society, as demonstrated by the vote for Brexit. This collection of essays offers a fascinating exploration of the ethics surrounding immigration policy in the UK. Produced by Theos, a leading Christian think tank, this thought-provokin…
This work explains the politics of the patterns of the advertisements printed in the newspapers published in Bengal between 1947 and 1970, and the sociology of the encounter of the Bengali middleclass with these. Many of the cited advertisements were meant for the entire country…
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis. The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world's 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under…
This book focuses on the common features of protracted refugee situations. It is a critical examination of the reasons underlying the extended nature of those crises, as well as potential solutions to them. The book addresses war and armed conflict, environmental change and natu…
From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these tw…
This volume analyses India's reasonably good record of providing protection and hospitality to refugees, while pointing out the contradictions in the relation between these positive aspects and the manner in which state power has been exercised in post-colonial India. In examini…
Drawing on nine case studies and innovative empirical material from various regions of Uganda, this edited volume focuses on the interplay between humanitarian, economic and academic intervention on the one hand and mobility, permanent transit and (re- )settlement on the other -…
A very modern fairytale, soon to be a film starring Daniel Auteuil (Manon des Sources, Jean de Florette). 'A heartwarming story.'.
"Migration is one of the fundamental driving forces of change in the modern world. As regions such as the Middle East continue to experience instability, climate change is driving migration from Africa and Central Asia - these 'push factors' lead to increased migration throughou…
Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has sparked a backlash. Nash and Browne consider the rise of the new 'heteroactivism', showing how socia…
Asylum seeking continues to be a highly emotive and politically charged issue. This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. Using discourse analysis, it explores how language is us…
Daniel Thym verbindet politische Grundsatzfragen mit rechtstechnischen Einzelheiten, um auf einer mittleren Abstraktionsebene die zentralen Konstruktionsschwächen des deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts aufzuzeigen. Anhand aktueller Streitfragen zur Flü…
Refugee law has recently become the focus of public debate. Itvarious topics such as the failure to close the German border duringthe refugee crisis, cooperation with third countries such as Turkey orLibya, national housing standards, a reformed Dublin systemand much more. Commo…
Knowledge of the integration process for refugees is often subsumed under the broader category of "immigrants". This book focuses on this process for refugees, including the structural and systemic challenges they face as they integrate in their new host societies, and how they …
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Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in 'reeducation camps' in China's northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the camp…
This volume is focused on the core areas of imparting education to the refugee population and highlights the recent developments intended to meet an urgent need: that of the refugees who have no or very little previous schooling and who are in need of both language learning and …
This is a longitudinal study of highly qualified professionals, before and after they arrive as refugees in the UK. It powerfully challenges the stereotyped images of refugees, showing how and what they learn as they build viable and respected identities for themselves in a new …
