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This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war
on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors
of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level
security concerns. Drawing on research in the United States and in
Europe, Gozdziak shows how human trafficking has replaced migration
in public narratives, policy responses, and practice with migrants
and analyzes lived experiences of (in)security of trafficked
victims, irregular migrants, and asylum seekers. .
This book responds to the reality that children and youth
constitute a disproportionately large percentage of displaced
populations worldwide. It demonstrates how their hopes and
aspirations reflect the transient nature of their age group, and
often differ from those of their elders. It also examines how they
face additional difficulties due to the inconsistent definition and
uneven implementation of the traditional 'durable solutions' to
forced migration implemented by national governments and
international assistance agencies. The authors use empirical
research findings and robust policy analyses of cases of child
displacement across the globe to make their central argument: that
the particular challenges and opportunities that displaced children
and youth face must be investigated and factored into relevant
policy and practice, promoting more sustainable and durable
solutions in the process. This interdisciplinary edited collection
will appeal to students and scholars of forced migration studies,
development, conflict and peace-building and youth studies, along
with policy-makers, children's rights organizations and NGOs.
This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the
experiences of African migrants in Thailand. Thailand has always
been a regional migration hub with Africans being the most recent.
Sitting at the intersection of race and migration studies, this
book focuses on the challenges Black and labor migrants face trying
to integrate into a society that has had very limited contact with
and knowledge about Black Africans. Bringing together research from
African, Thai, and European scholars, this volume focuses on forced
migrants, such as Somali asylum seekers, and labor migrants,
largely African men seeking better livelihoods in niche economies
such as gem trading, garment wholesale, and football playing and
coaching. The book also includes theoretical contributions to the
understanding of precarity and human security, the concept of
in/visibility to analyze the challenges African migrants face in
Thailand as well as the concept of othering to understand
discrimination against Africans. The book also analyzes the Thai
migration policy context and the challenges facing Thai
policy-makers, law enforcement representatives, and the migrants
themselves. While not comparative in nature, this volume directly
connects with studies of Africans in other parts of Asia,
especially China. Addressing an important gap in migration
research, this book will be of interest to researchers across the
fields of migration and mobility studies, African Studies, and
Asian Studies.
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering
Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious,
and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or
refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and
values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim
refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to
integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this
volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and
sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical
strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European
project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at
the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum.
Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and
the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of
immigration, countries with a more recent refugee arrivals, and
countries that want to keep refugees at bay and refuse to admit
even the smallest number of asylum seekers. Contributors in the
book explore the roles which national and local governments, civil
society, and community leaders play in these debates and practices,
and ask what strategies are being used to educate refugees about
European values, and to facilitate their integration. At a time
when debates on refugees and European norms continue to rage, this
book provides an important interdisciplinary analysis which will be
of interest to European policy makers, and researchers across the
fields of migration, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and
political science. The Open Access version of this book, available
at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429279317, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Trafficked children are portrayed by the mediaâand even by child
welfare specialistsâas hapless victims who are forced to migrate
from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex
slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children
in the United States, the picture is far more complex.
  Basing her observations on research with 140
children, most of them girls, from countries all over the globe,
Gozdziak debunks many myths and uncovers the realities of the
captivity, rescue, and rehabilitation of trafficked children. She
shows, for instance, that none of the girls and boys portrayed in
this book were kidnapped or physically forced to accompany their
traffickers. In many instances, parents, or smugglers paid by
family members, brought the girls to the U.S. Without exception,
the girls and boys in this study believed they were coming to the
States to find employment and in some cases educational
opportunities.  Following them from the time they were
trafficked to their years as young adults, Gozdziak gives the
children a voice so they can offer their own perspective on
rebuilding their livesâgetting jobs, learning English, developing
friendships, and finding love. Gozdziak looks too at how the
childrenâs perspectives compare to the ideas of child welfare
programs, noting that the children focus on survival techniques
while the institutions focus, not helpfully, on vulnerability and
pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by
institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model,
one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked
children. Breaking new ground, Trafficked Children in the
United States offers a fresh take on what matters most to these
young people as they rebuild their lives in America.Â
A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new
settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and
Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers.
Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the
immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the
regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities
experience overnight changes in their populations and in the
demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement, social
services, and other aspects of infrastructure. Institutions have
not been well prepared to cope. Local governments have not had any
significant experience with newcomers and nongovernmental
organizations have been overburdened or simply nonexistent. There
has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new
settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little
systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy
and programmatic responses to it. Beyond the Gateway is the first
effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the
immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also
among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the
same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether
successes or failures.
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering
Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious,
and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or
refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and
values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim
refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to
integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this
volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and
sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical
strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European
project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at
the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum.
Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and
the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of
immigration, countries with a more recent refugee arrivals, and
countries that want to keep refugees at bay and refuse to admit
even the smallest number of asylum seekers. Contributors in the
book explore the roles which national and local governments, civil
society, and community leaders play in these debates and practices,
and ask what strategies are being used to educate refugees about
European values, and to facilitate their integration. At a time
when debates on refugees and European norms continue to rage, this
book provides an important interdisciplinary analysis which will be
of interest to European policy makers, and researchers across the
fields of migration, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and
political science. The Open Access version of this book, available
at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429279317, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear
project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the
Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown
University. The project studied immigration integration in areas
that had no recent experience with foreign-born newcomers and the
information presented within this book builds upon this by
identifying and reviewing promising practices and strategies that
facilitated immigrant integration. Gozdziak and Bump include
descriptions of the most effective approaches as well as an
analysis of challenges within resettlement programs. By
highlighting successful initiatives in newcomer communities it
seeks to assist stakeholders in their decision-making processes. As
newcomer-related issues are complex and solutions are rarely
'one-size fits all, ' the programs described here are unique
responses to particular issues in individual communities, and they
may not be an exact fit for other communities with similar
problems. The book is not a cookbook or a blueprint that can be
applied anywhere and everywhere. Rather, it is meant as inspiration
and motivation for trying out new strategies. Successful practices
discussed in this book include: programs facilitating English
language acquisition, access to culturally sensitive and
linguistically appropriate health care services, access to
vocational training and higher education opportunities, community
development, microenterprise, creation of homeownership
opportunities for immigrants, and efforts to ensure safety of
newcomers. It is the hope of the authors that many
practitioners_including service providers, community leaders,
representatives of local governments, and donors both public and
private_will find this book useful.
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear
project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the
Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown
University. The project studied immigration integration in areas
that had no recent experience with foreign-born newcomers and the
information presented within this book builds upon this by
identifying and reviewing promising practices and strategies that
facilitated immigrant integration. Gozdziak and Bump include
descriptions of the most effective approaches as well as an
analysis of challenges within resettlement programs. By
highlighting successful initiatives in newcomer communities it
seeks to assist stakeholders in their decision-making processes. As
newcomer-related issues are complex and solutions are rarely
"one-size fits all," the programs described here are unique
responses to particular issues in individual communities, and they
may not be an exact fit for other communities with similar
problems. The book is not a cookbook or a blueprint that can be
applied anywhere and everywhere. Rather, it is meant as inspiration
and motivation for trying out new strategies. Successful practices
discussed in this book include: programs facilitating English
language acquisition, access to culturally sensitive and
linguistically appropriate health care services, access to
vocational training and higher education opportunities, community
development, microenterprise, creation of homeownership
opportunities for immigrants, and efforts to ensure safety of
newcomers. It is the hope of the authors that many practitioners
including service providers, community leaders, representatives of
local governments, and donors both public and private will find
this book useful.
A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new
settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and
Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers.
Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the
immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the
regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities
experience overnight changes in their populations and in the
demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement, social
services, and other aspects of infrastructure. Institutions have
not been well prepared to cope. Local governments have not had any
significant experience with newcomers and nongovernmental
organizations have been overburdened or simply nonexistent. There
has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new
settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little
systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy
and programmatic responses to it. Beyond the Gateway is the first
effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the
immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also
among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the
same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether
successes or failures.
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This open
access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity
processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood.
Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question
the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing
number of children are growing up. In this space, families,
nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are
central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood.
Childhood is a field of conceptual, moral and political
contestation, where the 'battles' may range from minor tensions and
everyday negotiations of symbolic or practical importance involving
a limited number of people, to open conflicts involving violence
and law enforcement. The chapters demonstrate the importance of how
we understand phenomena involving children: when children are
trafficked, seeking refuge, taken into custody, active in gangs or
in youth organisations, and struggling with identity work. This
book examines countries representing very different engagements and
policies regarding migrancy and children. As a result, readers are
presented with a comprehensive volume ideal for both the classroom
and for policy-makers and practitioners. The chapters are written
by experts in social anthropology, human geography, political
science, sociology, and psychology.
This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war
on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors
of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level
security concerns. Drawing on research in the United States and in
Europe, Gozdziak shows how human trafficking has replaced migration
in public narratives, policy responses, and practice with migrants
and analyzes lived experiences of (in)security of trafficked
victims, irregular migrants, and asylum seekers. .
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This open
access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity
processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood.
Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question
the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing
number of children are growing up. In this space, families,
nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are
central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood.
Childhood is a field of conceptual, moral and political
contestation, where the 'battles' may range from minor tensions and
everyday negotiations of symbolic or practical importance involving
a limited number of people, to open conflicts involving violence
and law enforcement. The chapters demonstrate the importance of how
we understand phenomena involving children: when children are
trafficked, seeking refuge, taken into custody, active in gangs or
in youth organisations, and struggling with identity work. This
book examines countries representing very different engagements and
policies regarding migrancy and children. As a result, readers are
presented with a comprehensive volume ideal for both the classroom
and for policy-makers and practitioners. The chapters are written
by experts in social anthropology, human geography, political
science, sociology, and psychology.
This book responds to the reality that children and youth
constitute a disproportionately large percentage of displaced
populations worldwide. It demonstrates how their hopes and
aspirations reflect the transient nature of their age group, and
often differ from those of their elders. It also examines how they
face additional difficulties due to the inconsistent definition and
uneven implementation of the traditional 'durable solutions' to
forced migration implemented by national governments and
international assistance agencies. The authors use empirical
research findings and robust policy analyses of cases of child
displacement across the globe to make their central argument: that
the particular challenges and opportunities that displaced children
and youth face must be investigated and factored into relevant
policy and practice, promoting more sustainable and durable
solutions in the process. This interdisciplinary edited collection
will appeal to students and scholars of forced migration studies,
development, conflict and peace-building and youth studies, along
with policy-makers, children's rights organizations and NGOs.
Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child
welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate
from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex
slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children
in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Basing her
observations on research with 140 children, most of them girls,
from countries all over the globe, Gozdziak debunks many myths and
uncovers the realities of the captivity, rescue, and rehabilitation
of trafficked children. She shows, for instance, that none of the
girls and boys portrayed in this book were kidnapped or physically
forced to accompany their traffickers. In many instances, parents,
or smugglers paid by family members, brought the girls to the U.S.
Without exception, the girls and boys in this study believed they
were coming to the States to find employment and in some cases
educational opportunities. Following them from the time they were
trafficked to their years as young adults, Gozdziak gives the
children a voice so they can offer their own perspective on
rebuilding their lives - getting jobs, learning English, developing
friendships, and finding love. Gozdziak looks too at how the
children's perspectives compare to the ideas of child welfare
programs, noting that the children focus on survival techniques
while the institutions focus, not helpfully, on vulnerability and
pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by
institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model,
one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked
children. Breaking new ground, Trafficked Children in the United
States offers a fresh take on what matters most to these young
people as they rebuild their lives in America.
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