Product Description: At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism...read more

You Shall Love the Stranger as Yourself addresses the complex political, legal, and humanitarian challenges raised by asylum-seekers and refugees from a Biblical perspective. The book explores the themes of humanity and justice through exegesis of relevant passages in the Old and New Testaments, skillfully woven into accounts of contemporary refugee situations. Applying Biblical analysis to one of the most pressing humanitarian concerns of modern times, Houston creates a timely work that will be of interest to students and scholars of theology, religion, and human rights.

Product Description: Voluntary repatriation is now the predominant solution to refugee crises, yet the responsibilities states of origin bear towards their repatriating citizens are under-examined. Through a combination of legal and moral analysis and case studies of the troubled repatriation movements to Guatemala, Bosnia and Mozambique, Megan Bradley develops and refines an original account of the minimum conditions of a 'just return' process...read more

Product Description: Im Mittelpunkt stehen in diesem Buch die Fragen nach den Ursachen von Flucht und Vertreibung, nach einzelnen Fluchtregionen und nach Zufluchtgebieten, aber auch nach den Erfahrungen von Flüchtenden mit Heimatverlust und Exil. Ziel des Buches ist es, derart die Sensibilität für den Problemkreis Flucht und Flüchtlinge zu schärfen und unbedachten Bedrohungsszenarien entgegenzuwirken...read more

Product Description: This book explores the complex and poorly researched cultural history of 20th-century exile: the influences of transnational experiences on the views of emigrants and exiles concerning their own academic, scientific and intellectual cultures...read more

Product Description: The nineteenth century is often called the century of mass migration. Multiple factors, including new opportunities created by the industrial revolution, left many people from underdeveloped regions, searching to find a better life somewhere else...read more

Product Description: The Global Issues series addresses important issues that affect everyone in the 21st century, exploring their history and causes through to their impact and the various responses to them. This title look at refugees - why people become refugees, the impact they have on society, and the attitudes of the media and the general public towards them...read more

Product Description: Immigration, particularly asylum, has become a major political issue in Britain and Europe and its impact on welfare, employment and 'social cohesion' highly contested. While asylum policy has become more punitive, dependence on immigrant labour has been increasingly acknowledged by governments which attempt to 'manage' migration to secure the benefits without the presumed costs...read more

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Product Description: One of this century's greatest tragedies, and one of our greatest challenges, has been the movement of millions of refugees. . . . This book, by an expert in the field, gives a comprehensive view of where we have been, and where we are likely to go, in coping with this world's endless stream of refugees...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Paperback edition

Records the personal struggles of courageous men, women, and children who left their homelands for America, searching for personal freedom