Tag: Refugees

Free Download Carol Bohmer, Amy Shuman, "Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century"
English | 2007 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 041577375X | PDF | 1,2 mb
Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-first century face restrictive policies and cumbersome procedures. So, what counts as persecution? How do applicants translate their stories of suffering and trauma into a narrative acceptable to the immigration officials? How can asylum officials weed out the fake from the genuine without resorting to inappropriate cultural definitions of behaviour?

Free Download Susan Kneebone, "Comparative Regional Protection Frameworks for Refugees"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138637025 | EPUB | pages: 152 | 0.3 mb
This collection focuses on regional approaches to refugee protection, and specifically upon the norms, and the norm entrepreneurs of those approaches. It considers how recent crises in refugee protection (such as the Syrian and Andaman Sea crises) have highlighted the strengths and limits of regional approaches to refugee protection and the importance of looking closely at the underlying norms, and the identities and activities of the relevant ‘norm entrepreneurs’ at the regional level. It compares the norms of refugee protection that have evolved in three regions: the EU, Latin America and the South East Asian region, to identify which norms of refugee protection have been ‘internalised’ in the three regional contexts and to contextualise the processes. The authors demonstrate the need for awareness of the roles of different norm ‘entrepreneurs’ such as states, international organisations and civil society, in developing and promoting basic norms on refugee protection.

Free Download Megan Bradley, "Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries"
English | ISBN: 1626166757 | 2019 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and international organizations. This book takes a different approach. Through contributions from scholars working in politics, anthropology, law, sociology and philosophy, and a wide range of case studies, it explores the diverse ways in which refugees themselves interpret, create and pursue solutions to their plight. It investigates the empirical and normative significance of refugees’ engagement as agents in these processes, and their implications for research, policy and practice. This book speaks both to academic debates and to the broader community of peacebuilding, humanitarian and human rights scholars concerned with the nature and dynamics of agency in contentious political contexts, and identifies insights that can inform policy and practice.

Free Download Miriam Potocky, "Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants"
English | ISBN: 0231181388 | 2019 | 440 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, alienation, grief, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as concerns arising from inadequate health care. Institutionalized discrimination and anti-immigrant policies and attitudes only exacerbate these challenges.

Free Download This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXKPZHP4 | 2024 | 25 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 646 MB
Author: Matthew Lockwood
Narrator: Mark Meadows
How have those who arrived on Britain’s shores shaped its history? Refugees seeking to reach Britain today often face perilous journeys, impossible bureaucracy and acidic public opinion. But this hasn’t always been the way. For most of our history, Great Britain cherished its outward image as a safe haven for those displaced by religious persecution, political violence or economic crisis – an island of stability in the midst of a violent world. In This Land of Promise, migration scholar Matthew Lockwood overturns many popular modern-day misconceptions about Britain’s history of immigration. Exiles and refugees have been not only a constant presence in Britain across the centuries but also intrinsic to shaping Britain as it is today.

Free Download Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario (American Heritage) by Ann Callaghan Allen
English | March 18, 2024 | ISBN: 1467155950 | 192 pages | EPUB | 6.53 Mb
America’s Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees/

Free Download This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain by Matthew Lockwood
English | June 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 0008442568 | 608 pages | True EPUB | 33.84 MB
A sweeping and intimately told history of exiles and refugees.

Free Download Nancy J. Murakami, Mashura Akilova, "Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031125991, 3031126025 | PDF | pages: 545 | 13.2 mb
This textbook provides theoretical and clinical knowledge needed by social workers and other practitioners involved in humanitarian emergency response. Social workers are well positioned to serve coordinating and leadership roles in this interdisciplinary field due to their holistic training. This book weaves together micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice into integrated social work practice. Its historical account of humanitarian emergencies, coverage of social work frameworks and principles, and review of existing best practices at the clinical, community, and policy levels ground the reader in a field of social work that requires consideration of historical frameworks alongside innovative responses to the complexity of humanitarian emergencies.

Free Download Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario (American Heritage)
by Ann Callaghan Allen
English | March 18, 2024 | ISBN: 1540260771 | 192 pages | EPUB | 6.5 Mb

Free Download Nasir Uddin, "Refugees and the Media: Local and Global Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 303146513X | 2024 | 379 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 7 MB
Media and refugees rhetorically live together and practically complement each other. Yet, it involves plenty of hidden political agendas and ethical issues in the (re)presentation of refugees in media. This collection raises questions: Should the media stand by refugees or maintain deliberate ‘neutrality’? Should the media dehumanize the refugees further in their humanitarian conditions? Are the media entitled to publish photographs of refugees without informed consent? Should the media stand by the state being responsible for generating refugee crisis or should the state be accountable for rendering its people refugees? What effective roles can media play in redressing the refugee ‘crisis’ in the world? The book brings together scholars across disciplines and continents who reflect on the nexus between media and refugees in contexts around the world. It engages in cutting-edge methodological and theoretical discussions and challenges regarding the reciprocal engagement between media and refugees from both local and global perspectives.