Intersections of displacement : refugees' experiences of home and homelessness / Priya Kissoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kissoon, Priya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homelessness--England--London.

Homelessness.

Refugees--Housing--England--London.

Refugees.

Refugees--Housing--Ontario--Toronto.

Homelessness--Ontario--Toronto.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Refugees are forced to gamble with their lives to flee conflicts, and if they arrive at their intended destination unscathed, they may face the turbulent prospect of asylum defined by a meagre existence, social exclusion, poverty, and even homelessness.Operating at different scales and imagined places, homelessness and asylum seeking are issues of fundamental social justice typically viewed as a problem of cities and crises of national and international concern respectively. However, over the past two decades in particular, the increasing and volatile numbers of asylum seekers arriving in the

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Postface

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8312-3

OCLC:

924625512