How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and ......
This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last twenty years, this collection posits loss as a new conceptual framework in which to understand Jewish-Muslim relations. Whereas previous studies of ......
India, Citizenship, and Refugee Crisis: Political History of Hatred and Sorrow examines the effects of the Partition of India in 1947. The partition as suggested by the British to satisfy the Muslims, who formed the bulk of the British Army during the 2nd world war, could not stop the communal riots but instead led to their intensification. The ......
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This seventh volume brings together examples of four different world migration systems, that of the Black Atlantic, of early modern religious migrations, exile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and twenty-first ......
This book, written by the faculty and students of The George Washington University Refugee Educational Advancement Laboratory (REAL), examines the experiences of refugees settled in the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia area (DMV) during the last ten years and their pathways back to access and success in education.
Haitian Refugees and Antiblack Racism on the High Seas
Black Interdictions exposes the antiblack racism that was latent in the US government's Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and the 1990s, setting the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium.
The book delves into a data-driven apolitical perspective of the migration problem in Turkey with the challenges that the Turkish government and international NGOs have had to confront in providing public services; notably, education and health to Syrian refugees in camps, public schools and clinics around the country.
How a Refugee from the Vietnam War Found Success Selling Vinyl on the St
As a youth in Saigon's Chinatown of the 1960s and 70s, Paul Au was greatly affected by American "hippie" culture and Rock and Roll. He was smuggled into Hong Kong in 1974 to escape the South Vietnamese military draft. At first living in rooftop squats, he started to trade used vinyl records on the streets of Kowloon, and finally established an ......
This book studies refugee migration through the experiences of Bosnian women displaced by the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia and analyzes themes of gender, performance, political economy, and citizenship in women's diverse postwar lives.
