Refugees in a Chess Game

Refugees in a Chess Game
Author: Medard Rwelamira
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789171063069

Covers the period 1967-1980s.

The Refugee in America

The Refugee in America
Author: Frances Milton Trollope
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1833
Genre: National characteristics, American
ISBN:

Fear in Bongoland

Fear in Bongoland
Author: Marc Sommers
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781571813312

But these young men nonetheless join migrants in "Bongoland" (meaning "Brainland") where, as the nickname suggests, only the shrewdest and most cunning can survive.".

U.S. Refugee Programs, 1981

U.S. Refugee Programs, 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1980
Genre: Economic assistance, American
ISBN:

The Happiest Refugee

The Happiest Refugee
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459616057

The bestselling, laugh-out-loud, reach for your hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.

A Refugee in Switzerland

A Refugee in Switzerland
Author: Atther W. Qureshi
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475938640

When Jawad arrives in Switzerland, he has just the clothes on his back and a wallet with twenty Swiss Francs. He left his native Pakistan seeking more opportunity and a better life. Back home, he had finished his studies, but could not find steady employment to help support his family. Jawad believes he can find prosperity abroad. He faces several obstacles throughout his journey, and he is advised to seek shelter in Switzerland because of its relaxed asylum program. But Jawad discovers there is no recipe for immediate success in this foreign country. He must learn to adapt to Swiss customs and laws and be industrious in order to make a living and send money to support his family back home. Tempted by the high of drinking and partying, Jawad makes a string of bad decisions--until an accident forces him to take a closer look at his life. A coming-of-age novel, A Refugee in Switzerland provides a firsthand look at the challenges refugees face and the perseverance they must exercise to work for a better life.

Indochinese Refugees

Indochinese Refugees
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1980
Genre: Political refugees
ISBN:

Reproducing Refugees

Reproducing Refugees
Author: Anna Carastathis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786610248

Since 2015, the ‘refugee crisis’ is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to “welcoming refugees” in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis,’ showing how the reproduction of images is structured by, and secures hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and ‘race,’ essential to the functioning of bordered nation-states. Taking photography not only as the object of research, but innovating the method of photographìa— the material trace of writing/grafì with light/phos— this book urges us to view images and their reproduction critically. Part theoretical text, part visual essay, Reproducing Refugees vividly shows how institutional violence underpins both the spectacularity and the banality of ‘crisis.’ This book goes about synthesising visual studies with queer, feminist, postcolonial, post-structuralist, and post-Marxist theories. Carastathis and Tsilimpounidi offer theoretical frameworks and methodological tools to critically analyse representations, both those circulated through hegemonic institutions, and those generated from ‘below’. They carve a space between logos and praxis, ways of knowing and ways of doing, by offering a new visual language that problematises reified categories such as that of the ‘refugee’ and makes possible disruptive, alternative, resistant perceptions. The book contributes to the fields of migration and border studies, critically engaging visual narratives drawn from migration movements to question dominant categories and frameworks, from a decolonial, no-borders, queer feminist perspective.

Design to Live

Design to Live
Author: Azra Aksamija
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0262542870

The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. Design to Live documents designs, inventions, and artworks created by Syrian refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative innovations--including the vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting in the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing made from recycled desks; and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material scarcity, unforgiving desert climate, and cultural isolation of the camp. Written in close collaboration with the residents of the camp, with text in both English and Arabic, Design to Live, reflects two perspectives on the camp: people living and working in Azraq and designers reflecting on humanitarian architecture within the broader field of socially engaged art and design. Architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, narratives, and stories offer vivid testimony to the imaginative and artful ways that residents alter and reconstruct the standardized humanitarian design of the camp--and provide models that can be replicated elsewhere. The book is the product of a three-year project undertaken by MIT Future Heritage Lab, researchers and students with Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, CARE, Jordan, and the German-Jordanian University. Copublication with Future Heritage Lab, MIT