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What motivates "ordinary people" to support refugees emotionally
and financially? This is a timely question considering the number
of displaced people in today's world is at an all-time high. To
help counter this crisis, it is imperative for the Canadian
government to determine which policies encourage volunteers to
welcome asylum seekers, and which ones must be reviewed. Ordinary
People, Extraordinary Actions relates the story of the St. Joseph's
Parish Refugee Outreach Committee over its thirty years in action,
revealing how seemingly small decisions and actions have led to
significant changes in policies and in people's lives-and how they
can do so again in the future. By helping readers-young and old,
secular and faith-oriented-understand what drives individuals and
communities to welcome refugees with open hearts and open arms, the
authors hope to inspire people across Canada and beyond its borders
to strengthen our collective willingness and ability to offer
refuge as a lifesaving protection for those who need it.
Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the
radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of
the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the
Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women
nationalists' petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest
collections of political documents written by African women during
the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral
interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class,
education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both
urban and rural areas through the Trust Territories of the
Cameroons under French and British administration. Foregrounding
issues such as economic autonomy and biological and agricultural
fertility, UDEFEC politics wove anti-imperial democracy and notions
of universal human rights into locally rooted political cultures
and histories. UDEFEC's history sheds light on the essential
components of women's successful political mobilization in Africa,
and contributes to the discussion of women's involvement in
nationalist movements in formerly colonized territories.
African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and
Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert
opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This
is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in
relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a
rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this
new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts
in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports
tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts
increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations,
expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an
academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines.
This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their
effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may
determine their fate. Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John
Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia
Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and
Charlotte Walker-Said.
"In following the paths of Cameroonian nationalists where they
actually lead, Meredith Terretta's study does a number of things
that no previously published histories of Cameroon's decolonization
have done. " -African Studies Quarterly Nation of Outlaws, State of
Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism
to consider the global and local influences that shaped the
movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond.
Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great
Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon, as well as oral sources, Nation of
Outlaws, State of Violence chronicles the spread of the Union des
populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalist movement from the late
1940s into the first postcolonial decade. It shows how, in the
French and British Cameroon territories administered as UN
Trusteeships after the Second World War, notions of international
human rights, the promise of Third World independence, Pan-African
federation, and national citizenship blended with local political
and spiritual practices that resurfaced as the period of European
rule came to a close. After French and British administrators
banned the party in the mid-1950s, UPC nationalists adopted
violence as a revolutionary strategy. In the 1960s, the nationalist
vision disintegrated. The postcolonial regime labeled UPC
nationalists "outlaws" and rounded them up for imprisonment or
execution as the state shifted to single-party rule in 1966.Nation
of Outlaws, State of Violence traces the connection between local
and transregional politics in the age of Africa's decolonization
and the early decades of the Cold War. Rather than stop at official
independence as most conventional histories of African nationalist
movements do, this book considers postindependence events as
crucial to the history of Cameroonian nationalism and to an
understanding of the postcolonial government that came to power on
1 January 1960. While the history of the UPC is a story that ends
with the party's failure to gain access to political power with
independence, it is also a story of the postcolonial state's
failure to become a nation.
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