Author: Anirudh KalaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789387693258
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Unsafe Asylum
Author: Anirudh KalaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789387693258
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Ungrateful Refugee
Author: Dina NayeriPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 194822643X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” —The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the ‘feared swarms’ . . . Her family’s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart–rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own . . . This is a memoir laced with stimulus and plenty of heart at a time when the latter has grown elusive.” —Star–Tribune (Minneapolis) Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel–turned–refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Nayeri confronts notions like “the swarm,” and, on the other hand, “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis. “A writer who confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees
Blue Asylum
Author: Kathy HepinstallPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547712073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
During the Civil War, a plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for seeking justice for slaves. She is sent to a mental asylum and finds love with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
The End of Asylum
Author: Andrew Ian SchoenholtzPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1647121078
Category : Asylum, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Trump administration's war on asylum and what we can do about it
Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum
Author: Laura WestraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317009215
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and the deprivation of natural resources. They argue that all of these problems either originate from human agency directly, or are strongly influenced by human activities, particularly those of wealthy countries in the North West. The study goes on to discuss how migrants are received and the problems they face on arrival, and concludes with confronting the fate and the status of asylum seekers after arrival, and the walls, both virtual and material, that they encounter. The authors propose ways of approaching the situation, beyond the present language and the limited interpretations of the Convention on the Status of Refugees. Written by leading experts in environmental ethics, asylum law, and international law, the book will be essential reading for those working in these and related areas.
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Author: Emilie AutumnPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998990910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Supercommunity
Author: E-FluxPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786633566
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
"I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software." Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on-site at Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. "I convert care to cruelty, and cruelty back to care. I convert political desires to economic flows and data, and then I convert them back again. I convert revolutions to revelations. I don't want security, I want to leave, and then disperse myself everywhere and all the time."
Handover of Power - Foreign Affairs
Author: Andreas SeidlPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375680044X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Foreign policy rethought Do you sometimes worry that globalisation is doing you more damage than good? And do you also wish for a similar standard of living for all humans in this world? What kind of policy can unify states without war and avoid the causes of flight? This book tells us: ... how an International Union can look like, in which states - depending on the willingness of their peoples - gradually unify their actions and unite democratically. ... how underdeveloped countries are developed one after the other through education and infrastructure so that the population there can help itself. ... how to reduce transnational exploitation and crime and build the united states of the world. After 20 years of work on this book series, Andreas Seidl thus ventures a step towards founding a party. In doing so, he entertains his readers both intellectually and visionarily. If this work can give you hope, inspire you or move you to action, it has fulfilled its purpose. Available in German and English
Witnessing Partition
Author: Tarun K. SaintPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429560001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.
Author: John Purdon