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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
Child abuse is typically considered to be the most severe form of
early adversity to which children or adolescents can be subjected.
Maltreated young people seen as at the highest risk are likely to
be placed in out-of-home care for their own protection, including
foster care, kinship care, group care, or independent living. Young
People in Out-of-Home Care is based on more than two decades of
applied research and evaluation, conducted since 2000, as part of
the ongoing Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) Project. The
OnLAC project was based on a new child welfare approach known as
Looking After Children, developed in the UK in the late 1980s and
1990s, to reform and improve services to vulnerable young people
who were being looked after in out-of-home care. When launched in
2000, the OnLAC project “Canadianized” the UK approach and
partnered with the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid
Societies (OACAS) and some 20 children’s aid societies in the
province. Since 2007, the Ontario government has mandated that
local societies use the OnLAC method to plan services and monitor
outcomes. Since 2000, the Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC)
project has gathered information on results and well-being from
interviews with more than 35,000 young people in care, their
caregivers, and their child welfare workers. Young People in Out-
of-Home Care presents major project findings and lessons that
promise to improve young people’s education, development, health,
social and family relationships, mental health, and preparation for
transition to community life.
This rereading of the history of American westward expansion
examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a
successful campaign of ""counterinsurgency."" Paramilitary figures
such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett ""opened the West"" and
frontiersmen infiltrated the enemy, learning Indian tactics and
launching ""search and destroy"" missions. Conventional military
force was a key component but the interchange between militia,
regular soldiers, volunteers and frontiersmen underscores the
complexity of the conflict and the implementing of a ""peace
policy."" The campaign's outcome rested as much on the civilian
population's economic imperatives as any military action. The
success of this three-century war of attrition was unparalleled but
ultimately saw the victors question the morality of their own
actions.
A palimpsest is at once easy to define and, at the same time, so
infinitely various as to defy all denotation. A thrifty technique
employed by the ancients to recycle scarce resources? Or a metaphor
for the human mind? A text that overwrites another text? Or a
culture that overwrites another culture? This concise, readable
volume examines texts written by such figures as William Blake,
Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass, in order
to explore the dualistic thinking involved in the creation of
literary palimpsests during the tempestuous eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Contributors to this collection analyze the
alienation and disorientation caused by the tremendous social and
political revolution going on throughout the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries in the United States and Great Britain.
Writers and philosophers of the time were charged with the task of
reorienting themselves and their readers within the ever-changing
social and political constructs that characterized their lives.
Double Vision shows how these writers employed the use of the
palimpsest in their attempts to strike a balance between preserving
old ways and privileging new innovations.
Preemptive warfare is the practice of attempting to avoid an
enemy's seemingly imminent attack by taking military action against
them first. It is undertaken in self-defense. Preemptive war is
often confused with preventive war, which is an attack launched to
defeat a potential opponent and is an act of aggression. Preemptive
war is thought to be justified and honorable, while preventive war
violates international law. In the real world, the distinction
between the two is highly contested. In First Strike, author
Matthew J. Flynn examines case studies of preemptive war throughout
history, from Napoleonic France to the American Civil War, and from
Hitler's Germany to the recent U.S. invasion of Iraq. Flynn takes
an analytical look at the international use of military and
political preemption throughout the last two hundred years of
western history, to show how George W. Bush's recent use of this
dubiously "honorable" way of making war is really just the latest
of a long line of previously failed attempts. Balanced and
historically grounded, First Strike provides a comprehensive
history of one of the most controversial military strategies in the
history of international foreign policy.
Preemptive warfare is the practice of attempting to avoid an
enemy's seemingly imminent attack by taking military action against
them first. It is undertaken in self-defense. Preemptive war is
often confused with preventive war, which is an attack launched to
defeat a potential opponent and is an act of aggression. Preemptive
war is thought to be justified and honorable, while preventive war
violates international law. In the real world, the distinction
between the two is highly contested. In First Strike, author
Matthew J. Flynn examines case studies of preemptive war throughout
history, from Napoleonic France to the American Civil War, and from
Hitler's Germany to the recent U.S. invasion of Iraq. Flynn takes
an analytical look at the international use of military and
political preemption throughout the last two hundred years of
western history, to show how George W. Bush's recent use of this
dubiously "honorable" way of making war is really just the latest
of a long line of previously failed attempts. Balanced and
historically grounded, First Strike provides a comprehensive
history of one of the most controversial military strategies in the
history of international foreign policy.
Child abuse is typically considered to be the most severe form of
early adversity to which children or adolescents can be subjected.
Maltreated young people seen as at the highest risk are likely to
be placed in out-of-home care for their own protection, including
foster care, kinship care, group care, or independent living. Young
People in Out-of-Home Care is based on more than two decades of
applied research and evaluation, conducted since 2000, as part of
the ongoing Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) Project. The
OnLAC project was based on a new child welfare approach known as
Looking After Children, developed in the UK in the late 1980s and
1990s, to reform and improve services to vulnerable young people
who were being looked after in out-of-home care. When launched in
2000, the OnLAC project “Canadianized” the UK approach and
partnered with the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid
Societies (OACAS) and some 20 children’s aid societies in the
province. Since 2007, the Ontario government has mandated that
local societies use the OnLAC method to plan services and monitor
outcomes. Since 2000, the Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC)
project has gathered information on results and well-being from
interviews with more than 35,000 young people in care, their
caregivers, and their child welfare workers. Young People in Out-
of-Home Care presents major project findings and lessons that
promise to improve young people’s education, development, health,
social and family relationships, mental health, and preparation for
transition to community life.
This book examines the role of affective variables in the process
of learning a minority language. It presents a comprehensive
account of how adult learners' attitude, motivation and identity
are related to their awareness of, and commitment to, different
dialects and varieties as target speech models. These issues are
examined in the context of Irish, a minority language which does
not have a standard spoken variety and where the vast majority of
learners have no regular contact with native speakers. Using a
mixed methods research approach, this study explores the
relationships that exist between, on the one hand, learners'
attitudes towards the three main traditional dialects of Irish and
non-traditional second language varieties, and on the other, their
motivation and self-concept as second language learners.
This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian
faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China. These
played a role in the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a
modern science in that country. This second volume of the
sub-series Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China:
Geology and Fossil Mammals in the Vertebrate Paleobiology and
Paleoanthropology book series deals with a rich microfauna fossil
record; megafauna follow in subsequent volumes. This research on
Yushe Basin fossils provides a view of changes in northeast Asian
terrestrial faunas during the Late Neogene, and therefore is a key
to the biochronology for a vast part of the continent. The faunas
recovered by the multinational team working in this region
represent changes in small mammal communities of the Yushe Basin,
revealed on a finer time scale that has not been achieved
previously. Detailed systematic studies on small mammal groups
proceeded under the care of specialists are outlined in the
chapters of this volume. Paleontologists, ecologists and
evolutionary biologists will find this book appealing.
The Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China embodies the
bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in
the northern part of East Asia. Everything we know about Asian
mammals of the last 6 million years has a historical basis in the
documentation of the geology of Yushe. This volume introduces the
basin in its geological setting, describes the succession of
fossiliferous strata, and shows how it is dated. It develops an
unsurpassed level of precision for its age control. Geological maps
and stratigraphic sections provide the backbone for individual
studies to follow on varied fossil groups. The volume explores the
history of exploration of the last century in Yushe Basin and
places development of paleontology there into the context of the
birth of the modern epoch of science in China.
Pediatric Neuroophthalmology details the diagnostic criteria,
current concepts of pathogenesis, neuroradiological correlates, and
clinical management of a large group of neuroophthalmic disorders
that present in childhood. Surprisingly distinct from
neuroophthalmic disorders afflicting adults, this set of diseases
falls between the cracks of most ophthalmology training, and thus,
warrants a practical, clinical guide for the practitioner in
ophthalmology - the neuroophthalmologist, pediatric
ophthalmologist, general ophthalmologist - as well as neurologists
and for residents. The authors, leading pediatric ophthalmologists,
have taken this difficult subject matter and developed an
accessible, user-friendly manual with a detailed approach to the
recognition, differential diagnosis, and management of pediatric
neuroophthalmologic disorders.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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