Describes antisemitism and xenophobia in Switzerland in the 1930s-40s. After World War I immigration laws discriminated against Jews. The Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG) was increasingly defensive under attacks of Swiss Nazis and the fascist Fronts as well as d…
This volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees. It covers theory and research as well as clinical and field applications, emphasising the psychotherapeutic perspective. It explores the delicate balance between accepting the resilien…
Papers presented at a workshop held at Colombo in 2003.
A history of refugees in 20th-century Europe, analyzing economic and socio-political causes for major population shifts. Describes Jewish emigration resulting from antisemitism and pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe between 1880-1921, and antisemitic persecutions by the Nazi a…
"In Hard Labour the voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944 are captured, telling the story of their flight from the advancing Soviet Army, their difficult journeys across central Europe, their lives as displaced people in Allied camps in Germany and finally the…
The production of "human waste" - or more precisely, wasted lives, the "superfluous" populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is character…
Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian hi…
"Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian h…
by McAdam, Jane
fromStudies in international law
by McAdam, Jane
fromStudies in international law
by McAdam, Jane
fromStudies in international law
