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Author: Timothy Leacock Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 229
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Suppose you had the power to alter the fate of a man in danger? Would you do it? Would you be willing to devote the time to get to know him? Allow yourself to be moved by his story and recognize the possibilities? This is the true story of Ahmed, a Somali refugee who received a death threat in his homeland, departed on a perilous journey, requested asylum, and received jailed detention. Refugee on the Threshold chronicles Ahmed's courage and determination as he encounters roadblocks in the immigration courts and the friendships that changed the course of his life. Will he prove he deserves asylum and cross the threshold, or will he be tossed back to his homeland, only to suffer certain death at the hands of a terrorist group known for carrying out their threats?
Author: Timothy Leacock Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 229
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Suppose you had the power to alter the fate of a man in danger? Would you do it? Would you be willing to devote the time to get to know him? Allow yourself to be moved by his story and recognize the possibilities? This is the true story of Ahmed, a Somali refugee who received a death threat in his homeland, departed on a perilous journey, requested asylum, and received jailed detention. Refugee on the Threshold chronicles Ahmed's courage and determination as he encounters roadblocks in the immigration courts and the friendships that changed the course of his life. Will he prove he deserves asylum and cross the threshold, or will he be tossed back to his homeland, only to suffer certain death at the hands of a terrorist group known for carrying out their threats?
Author: Bokum Hermann Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9780526626632 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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Author: J.R. O'Neill Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000538826 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid that aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "Why should we still think about the Aeneid?" The book contains chapters detailing previously undocumented modern literary receptions of Vergil’s epic, addressing the Aeneid’s relevance to understanding modern political discourse, explaining how the Aeneid assists in making sense of the pressing current issues of trauma and damage to one’s sense of identity, and even looking at how the epic can shape our future. The chapters build upon and extend beyond reception studies to provide the most current and complete answer to the question of the epic’s current relevance. The primary audiences for this collection are undergraduate students, graduate students, and professional academics from all disciplines. This collection should be of interest to readers whose academic interests include textual and cultural studies, classics, comparative literature, pedagogy, medical humanities, veterans studies, trauma studies, immigration studies, young adult fiction, world literature, communication and political discourse, citizenship studies, and ethnic studies.
Author: United States. Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Languages : en Pages : 640
Author: E. A. Vovsi Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated ISBN: 9781448957323 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 254
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Part One of E. A. Vovsi's true story begins in the late 1930s, as Europe is engulfed by Nazi butchery, and a father plans for his family's escape to freedom. The agony of leaving family behind; the roadblocks that pop up along the way; the eventual dash across Scandinavia at the last precious moment; all this, as Hitler's hordes begin their methodical genocide, which will claim some six million Jews. Good planning, fate and blind luck all combine in a chilling set of circumstances as the family flees for America. Part Two of The Refugee recounts the challenges faced by a seven-year-old, growing up over a 16-year period, as he sheds his European roots on his way to becoming totally Americanized. The fate of a family caught up in events over which it has no control is finally played out in New York and in the American midwest, amid both devastating and uplifting circumstances.
Author: Peter Gatrell Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199674167 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 325
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The Making of the Modern Refugee proposes a new approach to a fundamental aspect of twentieth-century history by bringing the causes, consequences and meanings of global population displacement within a single frame. Its broad chronological and geographical coverage, extending from Europe and the Middle East to South Asia, South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, makes it possible to compare crises and how they were addressed. Wars, revolutions and state formation are invoked as the main causal explanations of displacement, and are considered alongside the emergence of a twentieth-century refugee regime linking governmental practices, professional expertise and humanitarian relief efforts. How and for whom did refugees become a "problem" for organizations such as the League of Nations and UNHCR and for non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? What solutions were entertained and implemented, and why? What were the implications for refugees? These questions invite us to consider how refugees engaged with the myriad ramifications of enforced migration, and thus the significance that they attached to the places they left behind, to their journeys and destinations--in short, how refugees helped interpreted and fashioned their own history. The Making of the Modern Refugee rests upon scholarship from several disciplines and draws upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts and cultural production, as well as extensive unpublished source material.
Author: United States. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Emigration and immigration law Languages : en Pages : 80
Author: Eric Stover Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 081220378X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
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In recent years, the world community has demonstrated a renewed commitment to the pursuit of international criminal justice. In 1993, the United Nations established two ad hoc international tribunals to try those responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Ten years later, the International Criminal Court began its operations and is developing prosecutions in its first two cases (Congo and Uganda). Meanwhile, national and hybrid war crimes tribunals have been established in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Indonesia, Iraq, and Cambodia. Thousands of people have given testimony before these courts. Most have witnessed war crimes, including mass killings, torture, rape, inhumane imprisonment, forced expulsion, and the destruction of homes and villages. For many, testifying in a war crimes trial requires great courage, especially as they are well aware that war criminals still walk the streets of their villages and towns. Yet despite these risks, little attention has been paid to the fate of witnesses of mass atrocity. Nor do we know much about their experiences testifying before an international tribunal or the effect of such testimony on their return to their postwar communities. The first study of victims and witnesses who have testified before an international war crimes tribunal, The Witnesses examines the opinions and attitudes of eighty-seven individuals—Bosnians, Muslims, Serbs, and Croats—who have appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Author: Glynis Clacherty Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 182
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Glynis Clacherty became involved with a group of refugee children who had arrived in Johannesburg without parents, friends or family from countries of Africa that had been torn apart by civil wars and coups. As a way of helping them deal with the trauma of their flight and their arrival in a strange, sometimes hostile adoptive country, she brought together a number of second-hand suitcases and gave them to the children to paint their personal stories and recent histories. This book tells, in the children's own words and through their art, their remarkable stories of hardship and longing, strength and resilience. Shortlisted for the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
Author: Timothy Leacock
Author: Timothy Leacock
Author: Bokum Hermann
Author: J.R. O'Neill
Author: United States. Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
Author: E. A. Vovsi
Author: Peter Gatrell
Author: Rosalind Russell (Journalist)
Author: United States. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy
Author: Eric Stover
Author: Glynis Clacherty