Across countries and throughout time, asylum-seekers and refugees have been represented in a variety of ways. In some of these they appear as dangers, threatening to 'over-run' a country or a region w
Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detail
The Pa-O are one of Burma's many ethnic minorities, considered to be one of the four main subgroups of the Karen. They live primarily in southwestern Shan State, where they have maintained their own l
Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile is a political and social history engaging with the dimensions of generosity via a study about Kosovar refugees fleeing to Australia during the 1999 war
In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously sus
The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in
Balgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and r
The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees. With the increase in immigration in the late 1980s--when the number of refugees entering the United States nearly
The magnitude of population displacement and its consequences have placed the issues of reconstructing the livelihoods of those displaced on the world's development agenda. Addressing these issues fro
"This book on the education development and infrastructure with a variety of theoretical, contextual, practical, field based and policy inclined nuances both conventional and leadership and education.
There are political, economic, legal, medical, cultural and religious aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe. Difficulties in border crossings, settlement programs, life-saving issues and sec
