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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the
movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The
deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or
irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book
stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these
practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human
rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an
interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading
writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it
is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront
it locally and globally. Challenging Immigration Detention
thematically examines a broad range of situations across the globe,
with contributors providing overviews of key issues, case studies
and experiences in their fields, while highlighting potential
strategies for curbing detention abuses. Demonstrating the value of
varied analytical frameworks and investigative angles, the
contributors provide urgently needed insight into a growing human
rights issue. With cross-disciplinary investigation into an issue
with immediate global importance, Challenging Immigration Detention
is vital for undergraduates, postgraduates, activists, lawyers and
policy-makers interested in international human rights. National
and international humanitarian organizations and advocacy groups
working in migrant and asylum rights will find this a compelling
and diverse overview of migrant detention. Contributors include: S.
Albert, N. Bernstein, M. Bosworth, S. Brooker, P. Ceriani, D.
Conlon, G. Cornelisse, N. De Genova, M.B. Flynn, M.J. Flynn, M.
Grange, N. Hiemstra, I. Majcher, G. Mitchell, A. Mountz, C. Munoz,
D. Schriro, H. Singh Bhui, Z. Steel, D. Wilsher, M.P. Young, P.
Young
Welcome to Constitution Street. In this updated edition, Jemma
Neville explores what real life stories from neighbours on one
street in Leith reveal about our recent constitutional crisis in an
age of anxiety pre- and post-COVID 19. Part memoir, part social
history, part exploration of a new constitution for the day we live
in, Neville's debut encourages a reclamation of human rights
practice as something that belongs to each of us, too important to
be left solely to politicians and lawyers. Jemma gets to know the
people and stories that have lived on her street for decades,
showcasing real life accounts of perseverance, courage and
vulnerability, and that extraordinary stories are waiting behind
every door. Constitution Street takes an essential view on the
global issue of human rights through the lens of one street and its
inhabitants.
Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi
Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man
of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley
Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in
America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in
Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at
its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly
German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler,
Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the
Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were "stupendously"
productive. In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces
the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating
literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary
history, and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a
fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in
the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of
writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture
and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.
Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late
nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of
violence were not inherent in African culture; rather, violence
resulted from the ways in which Africans navigated the hazardous
social and political landscape imposed by white rule. Focusing on
the Eastern Cape province, Sean Redding investigates the rise of
large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive
abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles
and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, and
political violence against state policies and officials. Many
violent acts attempted to reestablish and reinforce a moral,
social, and political order among Africans. However, what
constituted a moral order changed as white governance became more
intrusive, land became scarcer, and people reconstructed their
notions of "traditional" culture. State policies became obstacles
around which Africans had to navigate by invoking the idea of
tradition, using the state's court system, alleging the use of
witchcraft, or engaging in violent threats and acts. Redding's use
of multiple court cases and documents to discuss several types of
violence provides a richer context for the scholarly conversation
about the legitimation of violence in traditions, family life, and
political protest.
"Figures of Exile is an excellent volume of essays carefully
curated by Daniela Omlor and Eduardo Tasis that pays a long overdue
homage to the late Nigel Dennis, one of the most important
Hispanists of his generation. It does so brilliantly by bringing
together a group of talented international scholars - the majority
of whom can be considered as Professor Dennis's disciples - who
each offer original and illuminating perspectives on a variety of
topics and authors related to the Spanish Republican exile, a field
for which Nigel Dennis was an inescapable point of reference."
(Javier Letran, University of St Andrews) Figures of Exile
contributes to the ongoing dialogue in the field of exile studies
and aims to refamiliarise a wider readership with the Spanish exile
of 1939. It provides new perspectives on the work of canonical
figures of this exile, such as Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Jose
Bergamin, Pedro Salinas, Francisco Ayala, Emilio Prados, Federico
Garcia Lorca or Maria Zambrano, and brings to the fore the work of
less-studied figures like Jose Diaz Fernandez, Juan David Garcia
Baca, Ernesto Guerra da Cal, Nuria Pares, Maria Luisa Elio, Maria
Teresa Leon and Tomas Segovia. Rather than being disparate, this
broad scope, which ranges from first generation to second
generation exiles, from Galicia to Andalusia, from philosophers to
poets, is testament to the wide-ranging impact of the Spanish
Republican exile.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the 2022
Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards,
Book of the Year - Discover Award Longlisted for the 2022 Gordon
Burn Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas
Prize Winner of a 2022 Somerset Maugham Award Cabbages . . . The
Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that's
where we put the heroin . . . There's a stash of heroin waiting to
be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But
Ayla's a gardener, and she has a plan. Offering a fresh and funny
take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the
House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice:
not only in McDonald's queues and men's clubs, but in spotless
living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations,
this is the story of the women who keep their family - and their
family business - afloat, juggling everything from police
surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and
love.
After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of
international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most
comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite
these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a
state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down
manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly
multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with
meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15
years of participant observation on all levels of migration
governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and
"invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative
discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus
provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration
governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level
Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and
Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the
International Migration Review Forum in 2022.
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African
skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants'
experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their
lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based
arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in
Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of
mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of
everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African
diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of
such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured
interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant
experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and
overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of
the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they
adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for
social work, public health and community development practices.
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
Migration is not a new phenomenon; it has a centuries-long history
since the world's population has been characterized by the desire
to relocate not only from one country to another, but from one
continent to another as well. However, there is a significant
difference between the migrations of the past and the current one.
Today's migration is complicated by the strong emotional reaction
and hostile attitude from society. The study of migration processes
needs interdisciplinary approaches. Interdisciplinary Approaches to
the Regulation of the Modern Global Migration and Economic Crisis
presents emerging research and case studies on global migration in
the modern world. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it further
showcases the current challenges and approaches in regulation.
Covering topics such as forced migration, human trafficking, and
national identity, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for migration specialists, government officials,
politicians, sociologists, economists, students and educators of
higher education, researchers, and academicians.
Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing
branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved
rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations
since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as
its implications for security and human rights have become clearer.
This fascinating study by international experts provides original
research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference
to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why
and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine
trafficked victims' rights, as part of 'quadruple victimisation'.
It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work
best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches
that most states and other formal organisations appear loath to
introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book. This
must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of
criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science
and international studies. Contributors: J. Debeljak, L. Holmes, S.
Kneebone, Z. Lasocik, K. Leong, S. Milivojevic, S.
Schwandner-Sievers, M. Segrave, O. Simic, S. Yea
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban
neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent
decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency
and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural
forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black
middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that a
nascent community established footholds in areas outside the
overcrowded, inner-city neighborhoods to which most African
Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these
outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials,
allied with politically progressive whites, and relied upon both
black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these
""surrogate suburbs"" and maintain their livability until the bona
fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories
of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney
offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on
racial conflict and black poverty and tells the neglected story of
the black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.
Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social
reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all
sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical
notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of
Americans to the plight of the industrial revolution, Twenty Years
at Hull House has been applauded for its unflinching descriptions
of the poverty and degradation of the era. Jane Addams also details
the grave ill-health she suffered during and after her childhood,
giving the reader insight into the adversity which she would
re-purpose into a drive to alleviate the suffering of others. The
process by which Addams founded Hull House in Chicago is detailed;
the sheer scale and severity of the poverty in the city she and
others witnessed, the search for the perfect location, and the
numerous difficulties she and her fellow activists encountered
while establishing and maintaining the house are detailed.
Handbook of Refugee Experience: Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery is
a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners
who work with refugee populations. This collection explores
contemporary issues including migration, war, oppression, genocide,
health crises, and racial and cultural identities to shed light on
the refugee experience. The text offers a balance of theory,
research, case studies, narratives, and clinical application, while
emphasizing the concepts of resilience, recovery, and successful
adaptation. The first section of the handbook examines the social,
cultural, and political contexts in which refugees experience their
lives. The second section features powerful narratives from
refugees that illuminate what it feels like to survive, recover,
and flourish after exile. In the third section, readers hear from
helping professionals about their struggles, challenges,
frustrations, and triumphs while serving refugee populations. The
fourth section focuses on clinical considerations, discussing
common assessment and treatment issues, as well as practical
techniques, interventions, and community-based strategies that have
proven successful. The final section focuses on resilience and
courage, exploring the gifts refugees, and their helpers, have
received after surviving difficult life circumstances. Handbook of
Refugee Experience is an ideal resource for counseling, health
care, and social work courses, or any other course that prepares
future practitioners to assist refugee populations.
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