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Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy / Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman -- Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness / Alia Somani -- Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience / Laura Madokoro -- Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship / Peter Nyers -- Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations / Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung -- Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal / Edward Ou Jin Lee -- Producing the Figure of the "Super-Refugee" through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration / Gada Mahrouse -- Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand's What We All Long For / Donald Goellnicht.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Who Are Refugees? -- A Dangerous Journey -- Seeking Asylum -- Applying for Asylum -- Coming to the United States -- The Rights of Refugees -- Working and Traveling -- From Refugee to Resident -- The Path to Citizenship -- The American Mosaic -- Glossary -- Index -- Websites -- Back Cover

Refugees are a hot topic in the news and politics. Young readers may not fully comprehend what it means to be a refugee, the complicated systems they must use to enter new countries legally, and the challenges they face adjusting to different cultures. This book presents these topics with easy-to-understand text and captivating photographs. Your readers will experience an in-depth look at what life is like as a refugee. They'll learn why people flee their home countries and about the dangers faced on this journey. How refugees can shape and contribute in a positive way to the new countries they call home is demonstrated.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Last, First, Middle -- Common Story -- Flesh and Sand -- Perspective and What Gets Lost -- How Succulent Food Defeated Trump's Wall Before It Has Been Built -- Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa -- The Parent Who Stays -- To Walk in Their Shoes -- God's Fate -- Second Country -- 13 Ways of Being an Immigrant -- Refugees and Exiles -- This Is What the Journey Does -- The Ungrateful Refugee -- A Refugee Again -- New Lands, New Selves -- Refugee Children: The Yang Warriors -- List of Contributors

Introduction /Viet Thanh Nguyen --The road /Chris Abani --Last, first, middle /Joseph Azam --Common story /David Bezmozgis --Flesh and sand /Fatima Bhutto --Perspective and what gets lost /Thi Bui --How succulent food defeated Trump's wall before it has been built /Ariel Dorfman --Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa /Lev Golinkin --The parent who stays /Reyna Grande --To walk in their shoes /Meron Hadero --God's fate /Aleksandar Hemon --Second country /Joseph Kertes --13 ways of being an immigrant /Porochista Khakpour --Refugees and exiles /Marina Lewycka --This is what the journey does /Maaza Mengiste --The ungrateful refugee /Dina Nayeri --Am I a refugee? /Raja Shehadeh --A refugee again /Vu Tran --New lands, new selves /Novuyo Rosa Tshuma --Refugee children : the Yang warriors /Kao Kalia Yang.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Context -- 1. Refugeehood in Africa -- 2. Refugee Studies -- 3. African Refugee Studies -- 4. Human Rights Instruments on African Refugees -- 5. States and Policy Frameworks -- Part II: Making Refugees -- 6. Colonialism and the Making of Refugees in Africa -- 7. Postcolonial Politics, Wars, and African Refugee Problems -- 8. Internal Displacement in Africa -- Part III: Displaced Lives -- 9. Refugee Camps and Settlements in Africa -- 10. Urban Refugees -- 11. African Refugee Women: Gendering Policy and Protection -- 12. African Refugee Youth -- 13. Hope in Displacement: Refugees and Cultures of Creativity -- Part IV: Protection and Solutions -- 14. Refugee Protection and Management -- 15. Durable Solutions and the Crisis of Development -- 16. Home, Return, and Postrelocation -- Part V: Conclusion -- 17. Citizenship, Rights, and Development -- 18. The Future: Ending Africa's Refugee Crisis -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

"African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee's lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the long ago past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions. African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze-where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems-seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power"--

"This book is a concise account of Canadian refugee law, policy, and procedure. It presents refugee law as an independent system, yet one that is open to and influenced by other branches of domestic law, international law, the practices of other jurisdictions, and the general global trends in forced migration. The book examines the historic and contemporary context of refugee law, formal law, and government policy, and the domestic and international principles of refugee protection. The authors seek to provide a solid foundation from which to judge the merits and weaknesses of the existing system allowing the reader to engage with the ongoing debate, both academic and popular, about the Canadian refugee system."--

It is generally accepted by the community that nations have obligations to protect refugees. The origins of the legal and moral obligations towards refugees is beyond the scope of this paper. It suffices to point out that helping refugees is a valance issue. Like promoting peace and cleaning up the environment, helping refugees has primarily advocates. However, there is frequent and at times bitter disagreement as to how one should approach this issue in practice. Among the most disputed issues are (1) hammering out a definition of a 'refugee', (2) determining who defines and implements this definition, (3) halting the flow of refugees, and (4) creating an international regime to effectively deal with refugees. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss various definitions of what is a refugee as a precondition of both, political analysis and political action. The controversy of defining a refugee is deeply entangled with the sovereignty of individual nations. The paper concludes by offering an alternative perspective for analyzing the current international refugee crisis.