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AbstractVolunteers in the USA have long provided support for refugees being resettled through the UNHCR-based refugee resettlement program, as well as for asylum seekers and other undocumented migrants through local community or faith-based organizations. Individual and collective acts of solidarity on behalf of those seeking sanctuary, asylum seekers, and refugees have recently increased, reflecting public reaction to increasingly restrictive US immigration policies. Based on interviews with community volunteers and leaders, we analyse this activism in terms of whether it constitutes social solidarity, civic solidarity, and/or political solidarity. We find this solidarity action on behalf of forced migrants has been relatively 'low-risk' compared to other countries, where activists have faced imprisonment by engaging in 'high-risk' solidarity action. In the USA, these efforts have emphasized civic and social solidarity, with limited political solidarity actions even when volunteers have been confronted by explicitly racist and exclusionary policies. In addition, this response has yet to develop into a broader political movement in support of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Violence toward Immigrants as the "Other" -- Chapter 1 Supporting Refugees and Asylum Seekers in an Era of Backlash: An Introduction -- Part 1 Legal and Social Policy Perspectives on Refugee and Asylum Seeker Systems -- Chapter 2 Evolution of Refugee and Asylum Law in the United States -- Chapter 3 Locked Up and Kicked Out: Detention and Deportation in the United States and the United Kingdom -- Chapter 4 Refugee Resettlement in the United States: The Central Role of Voluntarism in a Time of Backlash -- Chapter 5 Migration Policies in Europe and the United States: Securitization, Safety, and the Paradox of Human Rights -- Part 2 Health and Well-Being of Refugees -- Chapter 6 An Integrated Model of Interdisciplinary Care for Refugees -- Chapter 7 Refugee Resilience and Spirituality: Harnessing Social and Cultural Coping Strategies -- Chapter 8 Re-creating Family and Community Networks: Group Interventions with Forced Migrants -- Chapter 9 Child Migrants in the United States: Challenges to the Promotion of Their Rights and Best Interests -- Chapter 10 Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Child Migrants in the United States through Holistic Practice -- Part 3 Cultural Considerations and Refugee-Informed Perspectives -- Chapter 11 Transcultural Mental Health Services for Refugees: Two Service Models from Montreal, Canada -- Chapter 12 "We're Not Asking for Handouts!" Voices of Women Refugees from Africa on Rapid Economic Self-Sufficiency in the United States -- Chapter 13 Creative Arts Therapies with Refugees -- Chapter 14 Future Directions to Promote the Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Health Consequences of War -- Part I Afghanistan and Pakistan -- 1 Childbirth in the Context of Conflict in Afghanistan -- 2 Drone Strikes and Vaccination Campaigns How the War on Terror Helps Sustain Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- 3 Remaining Undone Heroin in the Time of Serial War -- 4 Dignity under Extreme Duress The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan- Pakistan Border Areas -- Part II Iraq -- 5 War and the Public Health Disaster in Iraq -- 6 The Political Capital of War Wounds -- 7 Iraqis' Cancer Itineraries War, Medical Travel, and Therapeutic Geographies -- 8 War and Its Consequences for Cancer Trends and Services in Iraq -- Part III United States -- 9 Imagining Military Suicide -- 10 Afterwar Work for Life -- 11 "It's Not Okay" War's Toll on Health Brought Home to Communities and Environments -- Appendix The Body Count -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index