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Conflict and forced migration : escape from oppression and stories of survival, resilience, and hope / edited by Gil Richard Musolf.

LIBRA HM1 .S84 FOR HOLDINGS CONSULT DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARY v.1 (1978)-v.3 (1980)
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Musolf, Gil Richard, editor.
Series:
Studies in symbolic interaction ; 0163-2396 51.
Studies in symbolic interaction, 0163-2396 ; volume 51
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Forced migration--United States.
Forced migration.
Refugees--United States--Social conditions.
Refugees.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2019]
Summary:
This timely collection brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, to explore the current face of migration conflict.
Contents:
Front Cover
Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Refugees
Refugee Status and Resettlement in the United States
References
Part I. The Social Structure of Conflict
Chapter 1 The Asylum-seeking Process: An American Tradition
Asylum Seekers
Affirmative Asylum
Defensive Asylum and Removal Proceedings
Expedited Removal
Appearance Rates in Immigration Court
Detention
Central America, Asylum, and Zero Tolerance
Immigration Court's Priority Dockets
Blocking Legal Entry
Denying Asylum to Victims of Domestic and Gang Violence
Zero Tolerance, Criminalization, and Operation Streamline
Unauthorized Migrants' Crime Rates
Separation of Children from Parents at the US-Mexico Border
The Reunification Order
Unaccompanied Minors (UACs)
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgment
Appendix: List of Abbreviations
Chapter 2 The Crisis in Darfur and the Social Structure of Global Climate Change, Race, and Gender
Climate-based Violence in Darfur
Climate Change as a Social Structure
Agency in Confronting Climate Violence and Climate Change in Darfur
Race-based Violence in Darfur
Race as a Social Structure
Agency in Confronting Race-based Violence in Darfur
Gender-based Violence in Darfur
Gender as a Social Structure
Agency and Gender-based Violence
Chapter 3 Transnational Solidarity of Circassians in-between Caucasus and Middle East
Method of Research
Theoretical Framework
Migrant Networks and Agency-structure in Migration
Historical Background
Partitioning of Refugees as Structural Condition.
Emergence of Syrian Circassians as Actors with Their Own Agency
Relation with Homeland as Social Interaction
Ba'ath Regime, 2011 Uprising and Syrian Circassians in the Current Crisis
Transnational Solidarity among Circassians after the Syrian Crisis
The New Forced Migration Experience of Syrian Circassians and Transnational Solidarity
Return to the Homeland as a Structural Condition
Tentative Conclusion
Part II. Voices of Survival, Resilience, and Hope
Chapter 4 The Rock in the Stream
The Lucky One
The Rock of Our Family
The War in the Faces of the People
Coming to America
The Rude Awakening
A Knight to the Rescue
The System
Trash Turns to Treasure
The Black Sheep of the Family
The Dream that Was Never Over
The Big Apple
The African Proverb
Chapter 5 From War to Peace: Loved Back to Life!
My Feelings about the Serbs as a Child Growing up
My Career Journey: Paper Trails … My Challenges at Work!
Social Life Outside of Work and in College
Challenges in the US
Hopes for Kosovo
Chapter 6 Bendito Infierno
Leaving Home
The Desert Crossing
Primero Dios
Chapter 7 Falling in Love with a Refugee
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Re-thinking the "Starting Point" for Research: The Challenges and Possibilities for Building Reflexive Knowledge ...
Shifting from Experiential Knowledge to Reflexive Knowledge
The "Generous" Canadian Immigration Regime and the Limits of Experiential Knowledge
Looking beyond the Digital Story and Long-term Reflexive Knowledge Building
Reflexive Ways of Knowing Anchored by Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
Rethinking the Starting Point for Critical and Participatory Research
Recognition of Historical, Economic and Political Conditions.
The Co-construction of Knowledge
Ongoing Critical Self-reflection
Toward an Ethics of Accountability
Engaging with CPAR Principles by Fostering Empowerment with MSM Latino Migrants
Situating Myself as Researcher
My Starting Points for Research with MSM Latino Migrants
The Challenges and Possibilities of Co-constructing and Situating Knowledge
Integrating a Critical Perspective into a Community-based and Participatory Research Project
Bibliography
Part III. Humanitarian Advocacy
Chapter 9 The Social Construction of Child Protection in an Anti-immigration Context
Constructivist Approach to Child Protection and Immigrants
The Origins of Child Protection in the US
The Intersection of Racism, Xenophobia, and the Child Welfare System
A History of Forced Separations of Children from Their Families
Forced Separations of Latinx Children from Their Families
Immigration Policy and Child Welfare Practice
Chapter 10 The Children Left Behind
My Background
Assessment of Trauma
Children: The Social Context
Children's Voices
Reference
Chapter 11 A Heart Shaped Like Syria
The Shock
The War
The Idea
The Action
Project A: Awareness and Scholarship/Educating Our Community
Local Outreach: Syrian Students in Schools
Education Outreach on the UE Campus: The Scholars for Syria Speaker Series
Movie Screenings
The Travel Ban
Organizational Recognition
Curriculum Development
National and Global Outreach: Extending Our Hands and Hearts
Books Not Bombs
Paper Airplanes
Project B: Connection and Scholarship/Reaching Our Community
Media Outreach
Employment
Project C: Fundraising and Scholarship/Supporting Syrians Home and Abroad
The Agency.
The Bond
Part IV. Art and Hope
Chapter 12 The Art of Re-Bildung the Refugee: Agency Through Literary Structure in the Bildungsroman
Structure
Scale
Reach
Story Becomes Reality
Today's Dominant Story
Subject to Change
Agency
Literary Intervention
The Novel Education of the Bildungsroman
Layers and Literary Ethics
Writing the Book on Refugee and Forced Migration Experience: A Lesson in Form
Freedoms of Fiction, Danger of "Facts"
Reading the Audience: Opening Time
Reverse Operations and Narrative Twists: A Telling Story through Story-telling
Building the Refugee and Forced Migration Subject into (Mosaic)Being
Making Use of Narrative Agency: What Story Allows for the Subject
Step 1: Release - Ismet Prcic's (… shards…): A Novel
Step 2: Expression - Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis (1 + 2: The Story of a Childhood &amp
The Story of a Return)
Step 3: Connection - Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati: A Story
Beyond the Page: Possibilities of Encounter and Where the Story Goes from Here
Chapter 13 The Syrian Refugee Art Project
Index.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
ISBN:
9781838673956
1838673954
9781838673932
1838673938

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