As an unprecedented number of people are displaced around the world, scholars continue to strive to make sense of what appear to be a series of constantly unfolding 'crises.' Drawing on research in a ...range of regions - from Latin America, to Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, North America, post-Soviet regions, and South and South-East Asia - Displacement offers an interdisciplinary and transnational approach to thinking about structures, spaces, and lived experiences of displacement. The contributors engage in a historical, transnational, interdisciplinary dialogue to offer different ways of theorizing about refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless people and others that have been forcibly displaced. Representing a collective effort by sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, political scientists, historians and migration studies scholars, this volume develops new cross-regional conversations and theoretically innovative vocabularies in the work on forced displacement. It also draws forced displacement together with other contemporary issues across different disciplines such as urbanisation, race, and imperialism.
War and displacement Lawrence, Peter
Journal of Global Faultlines,
05/2024, Volume:
11, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
In this personal memoir of the impact of war and displacement, I tell the story of my father, a Polish-Jewish student from Lwow, then in Poland, who became a refugee after the German invasion of ...Soviet occupied Poland in 1941. It is the story of loss, survival and reinvention of nationality and family. It is a story familiar to those many refugees through the ages who coped with displacement and loss and made a new and successful life in a foreign country.
Seeking sanctuary Jane Marchese Robinson, Marchese Robinson
01/2021
eBook
"Seeking Sanctuary" explores the history of people looking for refuge in this country. It starts with those protestant refugees fleeing oppression and persecution from Catholic Spain who ruled the ...Netherlands in the 16th century. It traces successive waves of peoples in the context of why they fled. At various times this was due to religious persecution, political upheaval, war and ethnic cleansing.
Given that 43.3 million of the world's refugees are children, it is fitting that a 12- foot-tall partially animatronic puppet portraying a 10-year-old Syrian refugee named "Little Amal" has been on a ...worldwide tour since 2021, calling attention to the plight of refugee children under the banner, "Don't forget about us." The "walks," as the tours are called, have been viewed by millions both in person and online, making it one of the most successful campaigns yet in bringing attention to the refugees' plight. The walks also help raise badly needed funds to provide refugees with "academic training and education, as well as supplying people with food, shelter and medical services."
America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq ...and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's Black communities, Arab refugees struggle to find employment and to rebuild their lives. Iraqi and Lebanese refugees who have fled from war zones also face several serious health challenges. Uncovering the depths of these challenges, Inhorn's ethnography follows refugees in Detroit suffering reproductive health problems requiring in vitro fertilization (IVF). Without money to afford costly IVF services, Arab refugee couples are caught in a state of "reproductive exile"—unable to return to war- torn countries with shattered healthcare systems, but unable to access affordable IVF services in America. America's Arab Refugees questions America's responsibility for, and commitment to, Arab refugees, mounting a powerful call to end the violence in the Middle East, assist war orphans and uprooted families, take better care of Arab refugees in this country, and provide them with equitable and affordable healthcare services.
