Provides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating them with empirical and comparative material. The first section (of three) deals with the background of the refugee crisis; its effects in the countries of first asylum, predominantly in the poorer countries of the ``south''; and the new challenges facing governments and migrants in the richer countries of the ``north''. Prospects for future research on refugees by geographers and social scientists as well as its rising significance for economic development and social welfare in both poor and rich nations are discussed in the final section.

An account of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Afghan resistance and the plight of the refugees.

Product Description: In 1978, following a dramatic escape from war torn Vietnam, Tracy Vo's parents boarded a leaky boat not knowing what their future held or whether they would live. The couple had fled Vietnam under the cover of darkness, exchanged wedding rings en route to Malaysia, then sold them and their scant possessions to feed themselves and their 10 relatives on the journey...read more

Product Description: This text explores the challenges and possibilities of working with asylum seeking children and young people, including the different aspects of resettlement, and development and sustainability of good standards of practice. A valuable resource for students and practitioners wanting to understand current debates and support unaccompanied minors...read more

As Estrellita leaves her beloved Caribbean island home and is whisked away on a jet plane, she combines all of the island's features into an ode celebrating its green and eternal beauty.

Product Description: This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region...read more

Product Description: Published in 1997, this groundbreaking work locates the intersection of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and twentieth century social upheaval in South America, and provides an all-too-rare study of the role of psychoanalysis in understanding and overcoming social trauma...read more

Product Description: This book aims to make available to the lay public a better understanding of one of the great tragedies of our times: the global crisis of internal displacement. As it draws to its close, the millennium finds some 25 million persons worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes by civil wars, internal strife, or gross violations of human rights--but still in their own countries...read more

Product Description: This title tells the story of Southern refugees during the American Civil War. It includes tales of people scrambling for trains or making river crossings. It examines the psychological effect of the war on the homeless, the humour they found in their difficulties and legislation concerning them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: For those who want to know more about organizations that provide assistance to refugees and disaster relief victims, the Dictionary is an ideal staring point. The timeline traces the history of refugee movements and disasters during the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Intense fighting in the Northern Region of Ghana in 1994 and 1995 led to the loss of 15,000 lives and the displacement of 200,000 people. A formal peace treaty, negotiated by the government, ended the fighting but did not address the underlying causes of the conflict, which was a complex mix of economic, political, and ethnic factors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book aims to make available to the lay public a better understanding of one of the great tragedies of our times: the global crisis of internal displacement. As it draws to its close, the millennium finds some 25 million persons worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes by civil wars, internal strife, or gross violations of human rights--but still in their own countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The war between Greece and Turkey ended in 1922 in what Greeks call the Asia Minor catastrophe, a disaster greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1453, for it marked the end of Hellenism in the ancient heartland of Asia Minor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There are approximately 40,000,000 refugees and displaced people in the world. This volume offers mental-health professionals, scientists and policy administrators a conceptual, factual and clinical resource for understanding and addressing the challenges posed by this growing problem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From 1939 to 1943, 185 refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe found refuge at Scattergood, a temporary hostel in what had been a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa. Among them were Jews, political opponents of Hitler's regime, religious figures, professionals, merchants, journalists, artists, elderly women, single young men, students, and children...read more

Product Description: Since 1990, the Refugee Families Program has been working with refugee groups in Chicago. Although this manual is particularly geared for those working with refugees, the manual's precepts can be applied by all who deal with populations in similar institutions of isolation from the surrounding culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explores three discrete areas of interest pertaining to refugees in Europe: asylum policies, reception and settlement policies, and the refugees themselves. Looks at the evolution of legal instruments for the treatment of refugees in Europe, at the harmonization process of European policies, and at the broader economic, political, ideological, and ethical factors which underpin decisions on asylum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)