Refugees

In a climate emergency the strengths approach is needed now more than ever. Commonly misunderstood, its true power as a whole systems approach to release the potential of individuals, communities and their environments has been neglected. For those brave...

'This book celebrates human resilience and the capacity for hope, serving as a powerful call for tolerance.' - Observer'Heartfelt, eye-opening, timely, essential.' - Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of AleppoHelen Benedict, award-winning...

Rohingya men, women and children have been fleeing from their homes for forty years. The tipping point came in August 2017, when almost 700,000 were wrung from Myanmar in a single military operation. There are now very few members of this Muslim minority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408672Author Florian GrossetFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999491584Author Tuan PhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Hidden RiverPublisher Hidden RiverWeight(grams) 395g

Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159091Author Helen ThorpeFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911587828Author Roz DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Palewell Press LtdPublisher Palewell Press Ltd

Traditionally, humanitarianism is considered a nonpolitical urgent response to human suffering. However, this characterization ignores the politics that create and are created by the crises and the increasingly long-term dimension of relief. In The...

In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. As an African migrant, he was little mourned. But though they've been deliberately forgotten, neither the events of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545130Author Ahmad JoudehFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

Focusing on the flight of women and girls from Venezuela, this book examines the gendered nature of forced displacement and the ways in which the failures of protection regimes to be sensitive to displacement's gendered character affect women and girls,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911587644Author Parwana AmiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint MigrationsPublisher Palewell Press Ltd

Surviving the Peace is a monumental feat of ground-level reporting describing two decades of postwar life in Bosnia, specifically among those fighting for refugee rights of return. Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its focus, Surviving...

Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993158735Author Anneli JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Ozaru BooksPublisher Ozaru BooksWeight(grams) 441gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm

The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. An Indigenous people from the Mesopotamian plains and highlands in what is now Southeast Turkey, Northeast Syria, Northern Iraq, northwest Iran and Southwest Armenia, they are the largest...

In the aftermath of World War I, international organizations descended upon the destitute children living in the rubble of Budapest and the city became a testing ground for how the West would handle the most vulnerable residents of a former enemy state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035828081Author Aleksandra OsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence. Through first-person essays and short stories, the...

This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and...

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their homes and heritage. Surging pushbacks, protection gaps, and deportations precipitate refugees' exclusion from equitable economic, social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789925573318Author Melissa HekkersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Armida Publications LtdPublisher Armida Publications LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Robert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for Asian American StudiesAfter the US war in Vietnam, close to...

Using examples from the United States-Mexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich...

Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a "moral mission" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration and...

Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. The government seeks to 'stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578555546Author Ali NuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Lion's DenPublisher Lion's DenWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national...

Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987924402Author Lukacs John VardaFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint White Hair PressPublisher White Hair PressWeight(grams) 163g

In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668083147Author Jeanne CarstensenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734497717Author Glocally ConnectedFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Inlandia InstitutePublisher Inlandia InstituteWeight(grams) 245g

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis, along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and...

African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these speculations are implicitly or overtly geared towards...

African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these speculations are implicitly or overtly geared towards...

This book is a collective effort by sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, political scientists, historians, migration studies scholars to develop new ways of thinking about forced displacement. We engage in a historical, transnational,...